The female patron of Farley’s East was said to have complained to the staff about anti-Israel messages graffitied inside the bathroom and then wanted to go inside again to film the messages but was blocked from doing so by a staff member with blue hair.
"We’ve given you all of your food... I know Israel loves taking private property and saying it’s their own, but we got ahead," a second employee is heard telling the female patron filming the interaction on her phone. "We have a right to refuse service."
"Currently, this is a private property," says a third staff member. "You’re also misgendering them, so I need you to leave."
"You’re not going to let me go into the restroom?" the customer asks repeatedly.
A fourth employee then tells the customer that she is allowed to use another restroom in the cafe if she would like.
The customer insists on using the bathroom with graffiti inside. "I should not be excluded when other people are allowed," she says.
"All you’re going to get is a video of us saying that ’Zionism is antisemitism’ because it is," says the third employee.
"If you agree with [the graffiti], why are you afraid that I take a picture of it?" the customer responds.
The staff then acquiesce and allows the patron into the bathroom.
She films herself walking inside where the phrase "Zionism = fascism
...a political system developed in Italy, symbolized by the Roman fasces-- thin reeds, each flimsy in itself but unbreakable when bound into a bundle. Its distinguishing philosophical feature is the Corporate State. The word is nowadays thrown around by all sorts of people who have no idea what they're talking about...
" is daubed on the mirror and "neutrality... is enabling genocide. Free Paleostine" is graffitied on the baby changing station.
"History didn’t start in 1948, lady," says the second employee, apparently referring to the year in which Israel was established.
"Free Paleostine. Now please go," the third staffer chimes in.
As the incident began going viral, Farley’s East issued a statement on social media in which it apologized for the incident, characterized the graffiti in the bathroom as "hate speech," said that it had been removed, that the chain is not antisemitic and that "corrective measures would be taken."
So the employees have been fired? Because clearly they are not temperamentally suited for working in a service job.
Oakland made headlines last week when some participants at a city council meeting on a resolution calling for a ceasefire in Gazoo...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with an iron fist by Hamas with about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about
oppressionand
disproportionate response...
voiced denials of the October 7 atrocities committed by Hamas
...always the voice of sweet reason...while others backed the terror group’s right to use violence against Israel.
The 1:35-long video has more than 7 million views and 8,500 retweets on X.
Farley’s East apologized in a Facebook post published on Wednesday. The post referred to the graffiti as “hate speech.” Read the full apology below:
“Dear Community, In response to the recent incident at our family-owned cafe, we want to offer an acknowledgement [sic] and a sincere apology. As context, hate speech graffiti was written in our bathroom. We do not support hate speech; this does not reflect our values. After a customer used the bathroom and wished to return to document the graffiti, they were initially denied access and then allowed to enter the bathroom to film the graffiti. We apologize for this error and the distress caused to the customer. We’ve taken corrective measures with our staff and removed the offensive graffiti. We’re not anti-Semitic; we value diversity and inclusivity. We’re committed to ongoing staff training for a safe and welcoming environment. Thank you for understanding that we are a small business doing our best to operate a community business in a difficult environment.”
The vicious idiots continue to be employed, then.
Jweekly has more:
The Anti-Defamation League told J. on Thursday that the woman filed an incident report with the ADL. The anti-hate organization tracks incidents of “antisemitism, extremism, bias, bigotry or hate.”Jweekly has more:
The video quickly gained traction, amassing over 2.6 million views before StopAntisemitism.org removed it from X (Twitter) at the customer’s request. Copies of the video have since circulated online and gained over 5.4 million views.
The watchdog group called for the firing of all three employees, calling the incident “inexcusable.” Another group, the Shirion Collective, which touts itself as a “Jewish surveillance collective” that uses an AI agent (named Maccabee) to scrape the internet for “digital fingerprints” to “aggressively track and expose antisemites,” has gotten involved. The Shirion Collective, which was started a month ago, has doxxed two of the employees on X by posting identifying information including their names, addresses, phone numbers and names of suspected relatives.
Levine offered Farley’s East antisemitism resources available through ADL.
Farley’s, which also has a location in San Francisco, is a family-owned business whose slogan is “serving coffee and community.” The phrase “you belong here” is printed on their to-go cups. The coffee shop has also shown public support for the Civic Joy Fund, a local nonprofit founded by Jewish community activists Manny Yekutiel and Daniel Lurie. Yekutiel, who was referred to as “our good friend Manny” by Farley’s on Instagram, was with his family in Israel during the Oct. 7 attack.
Farley’s East has not provided further details on the actions taken against the involved employees.