Local Nazis planning an anti-Semitic boycott for Sunday
They are not targeting “Zionists,” but Jewish businesses. It is the equivalent of calling for a boycott of Italian restaurants because of the Mafia.
Sometimes you have to wonder if anti Israel comments are anti Jewish, too.
Those behind the planned Nov. 8 Rittenhouse Square bicycle “boycott ride” targeting six local Jewish-owned businesses have left no doubt.
They are Nazi wannabes. UnAmerican.
Using the sheep’s clothing of being anti-Zionist, the selected boycott date is the eve of anniversary of Kristallnacht, the Nazi pogrom under which Jewish-owned stores, buildings and synagogues in Germany were ransacked on the nights of Nov. 9 and 10. The choice of date is no coincidence. It is clear as a swastika. Or a burning cross. It is Jew hatred.
As Maya Angelou said, “When someone shows you who they are, believe them the first time.”
These are Nazis, without question. All the jackbooted jerkoffs need are death’s head icons to wear on their bicycle helmets.
They are not targeting “Zionists,” but Jewish businesses. It is the equivalent of calling for a boycott of Italian restaurants because of the Mafia.
The sponsors, reportedly the pro-Palestinian Philly Writers Against the War in Gaza, have an issue with the Israeli government. How does that translate to Jews living abroad, Jews who themselves may disagree with Israeli policy?
It doesn’t. It is Nazi scapegoating, pure and simple, with the emphasis on simple.
As writers, they know what words mean. Their choices are deliberate.
So are mine. Nazi is a four-letter word. So is hate. This is unadulterated anti-Semitism.
I, too, am a Philly Writer Against the War in Gaza. I come at it from a different direction. I blame Hamas, which started the war, lost it, yet still refuses to lay down its arms, as it keeps getting support from anti-Semites, like from the sieg heil on bikes crowd.
Of the six stores targeted for boycott, Dizengoff and Goldie are owned by celebrity chef Michael Solomonov, who is Israeli American. The others are owned by American Jews.
The poster declares, “No business for Zionists!”
Who says all Jewish businesses are Zionist?
“These Zionists establishments must go!” screams a flyer. “Not in our city!”
Why the Zionist fear-mongering anyway?
Many “Zionists” are Christian, because “Zionism” is nothing more than the belief that the Jewish people are entitled to their own homeland.
Are they not?
Christians control about 120 nations, Islam more than 50. Buddhists have majorities in seven nations, Hindus have three.
Jews have one, and if you have a problem with that, and not the others, to paraphrase Jeff Foxworthy, you might be an anti-Semite.
“Marking businesses for removal from Philadelphia is an attempt to intimidate, marginalize and exclude members of the Jewish community from the economic and civic life of our city. No business should be targeted because of the identity, heritage or perceived political beliefs of its owners,” according to a joint statement from the Anti-Defamation League, Philadelphia, American Jewish Committee Philadelphia/Southern NJ, The Jewish Federation of Greater Philadelphia, and StandWithUs, in condemning the “boycott ride.”
The groups have called on Mayor Cherelle Parker, Gov. Josh Shapiro, D.A. Larry Krasner and other elected officials to condemn the boycott. They also urged Philadelphians of all faiths to patronize the targeted businesses. I have learned Philadelphia police have contacted the businesses in the bulls-eye.
I have asked Parker and City Council President Kenyatta Johnson for comment.
Nothing as of deadline. Is this a hard call?
How much political courage does it take to condemn Nazi practices and to protect a small American minority?
