Remember, the protesters say they aren’t Jew haters, they just go after everything Jew
Israeli restaurant chain in DC hit by Gaza protests permanently closes
Shouk, a plant-based kosher street-food chain in Washington, D.C., permanently shut down its final locations this month in part due to protests and boycotts from anti-Israel activists.
Once featured by the Food Network and The Washington Post for its “Shouk Burger,” the chain had five stores in the region. The closures come after two years of protests and boycotts over the war in Gaza crippled the business.
Local activist group DC for Palestine led a boycott campaign that claimed the restaurant’s falafel and other menu items “appropriated” Palestinian cuisine and that the owners were “complicit in Israeli apartheid.”
Co-owner Dennis Friedman, a Jewish American who opened the first Shouk location over a decade ago with Israeli co-owner Ran Nussbacher, rejected those accusations. He said the mission of Shouk was to bring people together.
“I don’t agree with that because the intention of Shouk was pure, and good,” Friedman told Fox News Digital. “When my business partner came to me, it wasn’t ‘let’s make Israeli food.’ He wanted to make plant-based food that reminded him of his childhood and home. That was the core of where we started to build the recipes. For the most part, Shouk has been promoted as Mediterranean, plant-based, and Middle Eastern. Very rarely have we claimed anything else. That’s why Shouk is written in both Arabic and Hebrew in all the stores — because we are a place to bring everyone together.”
He called Shouk “a gathering place for people of all races, colors, and creeds to come together to enjoy food,” that was good for customers and the planet.
I’m suspecting that the owners of Shouk are good little Democrat voters, who just learned that Democrats and the Islamists Democrats brought in to the US hate them. Shouk doesn’t have a website I could find, but, their twitter feed has all sorts of left win stuff, like hating the Supreme Court decision on abortion.
While he said business was booming before Oct. 7, the protests quickly started tanking their income.
Friedman said they reached out to local business groups and representatives and hired security outside their stores, calling the experience of being harassed by protesters over the past two years “scary and unnerving.”
“We had everything from little children coming into the store during a busy lunch screaming ‘Free Palestine’ while their parents videoed for social media,” he said. He said the protests were part of a “very coordinated” and successful “effort by the BDS to hurt Shouk.”
These are your people. You vote with them. And their abject hatred of all Israel and Jews. I feel for the owners, and all the employees, but, if you support the people who hate you don’t be surprised when they turn on you
They’ve forgotten.
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