WHY IS THE LEFT SUCH A CESSPIT OF ANTISEMITISM? Philadelphia anti-Israel groups to stage ‘boycott ride’ past Jewish-owned restaurants on eve of Kristallnacht anniversary.
Philadelphia anti-Israel groups are planning a bicycle ride targeting Jewish-owned businesses on the eve of the anniversary of Kristallnacht, the 1938 Nazi-orchestrated pogrom against Jews in Germany and Austria.
The “Boycott Ride,” organized by Philly Bike On Your Left in collaboration with Philly Writers Against the War on Gaza, Boycott CookNSolo and Philly Solidarity Calendar, is scheduled for Nov. 8 at 11:30 a.m. at Rittenhouse Square in the heart of Center City. A flier promoting the event states, “No business for Zionists,” adding, “These Zionist establishments must go.”
The flier names several Philadelphia businesses, including Dizengoff, a modern Israeli restaurant; Huda, a sandwich shop; Schlesinger’s Restaurant and Delicatessen, a Jewish deli; Mac Mart, a macaroni-and-cheese kiosk; K’Far Cafe, an Israeli cafe; and Goldie, a kosher falafel shop.
“Ride around Rittenhouse with us as we show these zio business owners that we see them for the disgusting humans they are,” organizers wrote.
The Anti-Defamation League of Philadelphia, American Jewish Committee of Philadelphia/Southern New Jersey, the Jewish Federation of Greater Philadelphia and StandWithUs released a joint statement on Monday calling the boycott ride “Jew-hatred, plain and simple.”
“The ride falls on the eve of the anniversary of Kristallnacht, Nov. 9-10, 1938, when Nazi-organized mobs destroyed thousands of Jewish businesses, homes and synagogues in Germany and Austria, while thousands of Jews were beaten, assaulted and sent to concentration camps,” the groups stated.
“The public targeting of Jewish businesses should alarm every person of conscience,” they stated. “No business should be targeted because of the identity, heritage or perceived political beliefs of its owners.”
In September, Bill Maher had this exchange with veteran music producer David Foster:
Foster: “What turned the Democratic Party antisemitic?”
Bill Maher: “Israel. It’s what turned them. It’s a question I explore a lot on my show.”
David Foster: “I don’t know the answer. And you don’t either?”
Maher: “I do. Again, it’s lack of education… They don’t know anything about the Middle East or the history. They just know one thing that they’ve been indoctrinated in, which is that the world is divided between oppressors and… people who are oppressed. And it has everything and only to do with race, which is ridiculous.”
“It has sometimes something to do with race; certainly in America it did. But slavery wasn’t invented in 1619. And as far as this connection somehow between the brown people who are Palestinians — they must be right because they’re brown and they’re poor and the Israelis are rich and white, which is not even true. Israelis are brown too. They’re different.”
“It just seems to always land back at the Jews. I mean, it’s so bad now that the right wing is doing it — Tucker Carlson is doing it, and Candace Owens is doing it, and so is everybody in the Democratic Socialists. You have to get on the page that Israel is the monster country of all time.”
A whole lot of people need to be asking themselves, “Are we the baddies?”