In an exasperating shared video in unknown by the Bay Area Jewish Community Relations Council, a man claiming to be the owner of the Jerusalem Coffee House asks Hirsch if he is a “Zionist” and claims that Hirsch is “causing a disturbance.” The owner, increasingly angry, tells Hirsch: “This is a private business. “They are asking you to leave.”

Hirsch asks the man to stop yelling around his son before confirming that he is being asked to leave for his hat.

“This is a violent hat and you have to go,” the owner responds.

After Hirsch insists that a business cannot force a member of a protected class to leave its premises, the owner responds: “I’m not asking you to leave because of that.” Raising his voice, the owner repeatedly asks Hirsch, “Are you a Zionist?”

As if the impetus for his decision to stop at the Jerusalem Coffee House had any bearing on the treatment he received at the establishment, Hirsch explains to an individual who appears briefly on camera that he was directed to the coffee house by a business across the street. the street that did not offer public bathrooms and coffee. His five-year-old son needed to go to the bathroom and his wife wanted to get coffee.

The unidentified individual explains to Hirsch that he “entered an establishment owned and run by Palestinians.”

Interrupting, Hirsch asks, “That, what, doesn’t allow Jews?”

“Maybe not,” says the individual. “And if they don’t, that’s not up to us or you.”

“It absolutely is,” Hirsch responds. “You cannot deny service to Jews.”

When the family leaves at the request of the police, the employees insult them, repeatedly calling them “sharmut,” which in Arabic means “b****.”

“Why wouldn’t you educate yourself?” asks a woman in an apron.

Cafeteria employees may soon receive an education of their own, given the swift outcry that occurred after a video of Hirsch’s treatment hit the Internet.

“This is one of the clearest cases of anti-Jewish discrimination that I have seen in the Bay Area,” Jeremy Russell of the Jewish Community Relations Council told Henry K. Lee, a crime reporter with KTVU.

KTVU also quoted David Levine, a professor at the University of California, San Francisco School of Law, who stated that “denying someone service in a place of public accommodation based on what here surely seems like religion, national origin and simply It is not allowed under state law.”

Levine is likely referring to Unruh Civil Rights Actwhich “provides protection against discrimination by all business establishments in California,” including restaurants.

Jerusalem Coffee has arrived under media fire before, due to his new and incendiary menu. Offered is “Iced In Tea Fada,” a verbal play about the intifadas, two periods of violence. terrorist attacks against Israelis which caused around 1,000 deaths.

“Sweet Sinwar” is named after former Hamas leader and architect of the October 7, 2023 attack, Yahya Sinwar. Although idolized by anti-Israel activists who denounce civilian deaths in Gaza, Sinwar told Hamas political chief Ismail Haniyeh in a letter dated April 11 that civilian casualties “are necessary sacrifices,” glorifying a death toll that would “breathe life into the veins of this nation.” Before spending two decades in Israeli prisons for murdering two Israeli soldiers and four Palestinian civilians, Sinwar was known as the Butcher of Khan Younis “for his role in the interrogation, torture and murder of suspected Palestinian informants for Israel.” by he Atlanta Journal-Constitution.

As Israel wages a literal and propaganda war in Gaza and manages threats from Iran and its proxies, American Jews face an increasing number of violent and discriminatory incidents in their country.

On Tuesday, a “visibly Jewish man” was “cut in the face” in Brooklyn, New York, on Jerusalem Post reported. An orthodox Jewish man was pushed by an attacker while walking down a Brooklyn street in a video dated Monday.

On Saturday, an Orthodox Jewish man in a kippah He was shot while walking to a synagogue in Chicago, Illinois. Chicago leaders continue to express their regret over the incident. unidentified the victim’s religion or the expression of his alleged attacker, Sidi Mohamed Abdallahi, who shouted “Allahu Akhbar” while engaging in a subsequent shootout with police officers.

Speaking of the confluence of hate and Hirsch’s expulsion from a restaurant, Rabbi Moshe Hauer, executive vice president of the Orthodox Union, told the Washington Examiner“When these types of ‘minor’ acts of hate are tolerated, the result is the normalization of hate and anti-Semitic acts. We have seen this happen time and time again. Society and law enforcement must respond with foresight.”

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More than ever, American leaders must take a strong stand for tolerance and provide greater security for the Jewish community. While political pundits use Holocaust terminology as a cudgel leading to a contentious election, viewers would do well to remember that the eventual genocide of millions of Jews was first made possible by their ostracism and subsequent expulsion from society.

Beth Bailey (@BWBailey85) is a freelance contributor to Fox News and host of The Afghanistan projectthat delves into the tragedy caused after the United States withdrawal from Afghanistan.