{"id":886154,"date":"2026-06-23T01:55:18","date_gmt":"2026-06-23T01:55:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/886154\/"},"modified":"2026-06-23T01:55:18","modified_gmt":"2026-06-23T01:55:18","slug":"new-york-coffee-shop-bars-jewish-congressman-over-support-for-israel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/886154\/","title":{"rendered":"New York coffee shop bars Jewish Congressman over support for Israel"},"content":{"rendered":"

A New York City coffee shop banned a Jewish Congressman from the establishment on Sunday, stating that they “don’t serve racists, fascists, homophobes, genocide enablers” after Democratic Congressman Dan Goldman visited the cafe with his child.<\/p>\n

Poetica Coffee, a chain with seven locations across New York City, posted a photo of Democratic Congressman Dan Goldman on Facebook and Instagram. It was captioned, “We see that you stopped by our coffee shop today for a coffee. Do you see how it doesn\u2019t taste like genocide juice?”<\/p>\n

“We don\u2019t serve racists, fascists, homophobes, genocide enablers. Too bad we didn’t recognize you right away, or we would have turned you away.”<\/p>\n

The shop claims to have issued Goldman an unrequested refund for $9.82, saying, “We issued you a refund – we don’t need your money (it’s probably coming from AIPAC<\/a> anyways).”<\/p>\n

\"TheThe skyline of Lower Manhattan is seen at dawn from across the Hudson River in New York City, US, October 18, 2025. (credit: REUTERS\/KEVIN COOMBS\/FILE PHOTO)<\/p>\n

They alluded to the primary challenge Goldman is facing in tomorrow’s election, saying, “Enjoy your loss on Tuesday. Don’t ever come to Poetica.”<\/p>\n

The post was accompanied by the song “F*** you” by British singer-songwriter Lily Allen.<\/p>\n

Poetica’s Instagram<\/a> account and the Lorimer Street Branch’s Facebook page appear to have been taken down since.<\/p>\n

Doubling down on antisemitism<\/strong><\/p>\n

Shortly before the account was deleted, Poetica Coffee posted a screenshot of a threatening email from “ilovehitler@hitlerwasright.com” saying “F*** you Nazi. May you die painfully,” with the caption “well, well, well.”<\/p>\n

On their website, Poetica boasts “Radical hospitality,” saying that “the guest is sacred, the books are unbanned, and the door is open to everyone.”<\/p>\n

Goldman is a Jewish centrist and is critical of the Israeli government and the war in Gaza. Although he supports Israel’s existence, he has called the war a “humanitarian crisis,” and described the current coalition as an “extremist government” that “unjustly hurts Palestinians.”<\/p>\n

He commented on the post, saying that his seven-year-old daughter needed to use the bathroom, and he made the purchase as a thank-you.<\/p>\n

Responses to the post<\/p>\n

New York Mayor\u00a0Zohran Mamdani<\/a> responded to the incident, saying, “I’m glad Poetica took down their post, and I thought Representative Goldman’s reply was extremely gracious.”<\/p>\n

Radio host Ari Hoffman said in a post on X\/Twitter that “This story proves that no matter how left you are, you can never be left enough for the radicals.”<\/p>\n

Rabbi Elchanan Poupko, President of EITAN – The American Israeli Jewish Network, added in his own X post that “I would love to better understand your process for accepting or denying service in your store, because I believe that, if this indeed happened, denying Dan Goldman service would violate civil rights law.”<\/p>\n

Mark Treyger, CEO of the\u00a0Jewish Community Relations Council<\/a> of New York, issued a statement, saying, “Assigning collective blame to Jews or perceived supporters of Israel over disagreements with Middle East policies is the very definition of antisemitism.”<\/p>\n

“It is shameful and hateful, and businesses open to the public do not get to discriminate based on religion, ancestry, ethnicity, or stereotypes.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A New York City coffee shop banned a Jewish Congressman from the establishment on Sunday, stating that they…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":886155,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[2],"tags":[110582,12648,26813,327,563,99,405,50,5301],"class_list":["post-886154","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","tag-aipac","tag-antisemitism","tag-antizionism","tag-congress","tag-instagram","tag-israel","tag-new-york","tag-news","tag-zohran-mamdani"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116796937096325407","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/886154","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=886154"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/886154\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/886155"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=886154"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=886154"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=886154"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}