Emulating the National Socialists, who organized nationwide boycotts of Jewish-owned businesses in the early days of the Hitler regime.
“A Jewish bagel shop in Detroit closes after staff walk out on new ‘Zionist’ owner,” by Andrew Lapin, JTA, August 8, 2024:
Arad Kauf sits in the empty dining area of the bagel shop he is supposed to be managing.
He’s got some new recipes proofing in the back, but they’re just sheets of raw dough. There’s no one on hand to do the baking.
Everyone on staff at the Detroit Institute of Bagels either quit or was fired last month after a conflagration centered in part on Israel, Kauf’s homeland.
“I was ashamed. I was embarrassed,” Kauf said. “I was trying to understand what I did wrong. What happened here?”
What happened at the Detroit Institute of Bagels married a long-simmering local real estate dispute to the widespread tensions over Israel and Gaza that have rippled out across the country over the past 10 months.
The sale of the bagel shop to Philip Kafka, a hard-charging Jewish property developer and Kauf’s business partner, elicited protests over Kafka’s past comments supporting Israel.
“My own core beliefs do not allow me to work for a zionist,” one staffer wrote in an email to the bagel shop’s new management.
“I cannot allow my creativity and work to be associated with zionism when this is something I vehemently reject, and am very vocal about.”…
Inuhsien says
Sounds like he dodged a bullet from his own employees. Idiots like that could easily have been convinced to attack him for wrongthink.
Transmaster says
I wonder how many illegal aliens coming in are bakers and can make bagels, making them in not rocket science. I’ll bet the would do the job.
martin Leonard walden says
Replacement employees should not be a problem with such low skill.
Ian Senior says
Sounds racist. Am I right or wrong.
SC says
Anti semitic. Sue them all. If it is illegal to refuse giving jobs to Jews. Then it must also be illegal to refuse to work for someone because rhey are a Jew.
Pam says
These employees are vile+ they are evil; and just plain unintelligent.
࿗Infidel࿘ says
Are there no local non-muslims and non-Leftists in the area whose teenage kids can volunteer to be employees? I’m assuming that these are not high skilled jobs?
Charles Valenzueela says
Summer break is about over. You need adults to operate a business during the school year. School-aged kids aren’t going to be available from 4 AM to 4 PM on school days. The baking is done in the wee hours because the bagels need to be available for the breakfast and lunch patrons. Working the counter is “low skill.” Baking the bread commercially is a different thing. If you’ve ever worked in a baking environment you will know that. Passing the health requirements are necessary as well. Like Cuomo’s remarks about farming and farmers, it isn’t a question of just picking up the canned vegetables lying on the ground in a farm field.
Bret says
Still people out there who want to work. So the owner/ managers just sits inside and pouts. This article is just playing to anti semitism. By the way. I’m a Christian and pro Israel all the way. My problem is with the article and/or the owner and management that has not immediately replaced these idiots with people who want to work. It’s not that hard.
OLD GUY says
They will probably get unemployment benefits.