Hoax Alert: Miffed In Manhattan (2023)
According to Arutz Sheva – Israeli Channel 7 – there was an ‘anti-Semitic hate crime’ back in December 2023 in Manhattan in New York City where:
‘A kosher Manhattan restaurant was subject to a second antisemitic attack, days after a woman dubbed the "soup Nazi" ripped down an American-Israeli flag and threw soup at a restaurant employee.
Last Sunday, a second woman attempted to cover up the flag displayed outside the Hummus Kitchen and shoved an employee, four days after the original incident.
Video of the second incident was posted to X (formerly Twitter) by the StopAntisemitism movement, which identified the perpetrator as Jeanette Suleiman.
In the first incident, a woman identified as Mayra Teke attempted to rip down the flag before throwing chairs and shouting "You are all murderers." She then threw a container of soup at an employee who confronted her. Teke has yet to be arrested for the December 13 incident.
Restaurant owner Sharon Hoota told the New York Post that he fears for his employees' safety, and that "The city doesn’t do anything to help us feel more protected.”
“We feel that we are left to fend for ourselves, exposed to any lunatic who comes along," he added.’ (1)
Now the problem is here that while there have been two incidents where two separate women have taken issue with the Hummus Kitchen’s promotion/support of Israel and its fairly genocidal invasion of the Gaza strip since the surprise attack on Israel on 7th October 2023. Both of them centre on the women concern taking offence at the Israeli flag and attacking it with Jeanette Suleiman further throwing soup on an employee of the Humus Kitchen as well as throwing chairs around.
Now while that is not exactly fun behaviour for which the Hummus Kitchen would be within their rights to press charges and seek redress. It isn’t remotely ‘anti-Semitic’ but rather anti-Israel political activism that has verged into the realms of minor vandalism and anti-social behaviour.
It is as simple as that.
References
(1) https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/382438