{"id":276867,"date":"2026-06-24T17:44:17","date_gmt":"2026-06-24T17:44:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/276867\/"},"modified":"2026-06-24T17:44:17","modified_gmt":"2026-06-24T17:44:17","slug":"protest-targets-cafe-that-banned-rep-goldman-over-israel-support","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/276867\/","title":{"rendered":"Protest targets cafe that banned Rep. Goldman over Israel support"},"content":{"rendered":"

Protesters rallied Wednesday outside a Brooklyn cafe that banned Rep. Dan Goldman<\/a> over his support for Israel.<\/p>\n

A couple of dozen people turned out<\/a> for the demonstration organized by an antisemitism watchdog group that accuses management of Poetica Coffee of discrimination over a now-deleted social media post vowing not to serve Goldman or other \u201cgenocide enablers,\u201d<\/a> a reference for Israel backers.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhat took place was very disturbing. Jews shouldn\u2019t have to take a political test to be treated like anyone else,\u201d Zirkle told the News. \u201cTo be met with such vile rhetoric is really disgusting.\u201d<\/p>\n

Several customers inside the coffee shop in Williamsburg wore keffiyehs to show support for the cafe\u2019s pro-Palestinian stand, but there was no confrontation between the two sides, Zirkle said.<\/p>\n

The group says Goldman was targeted because he is Jewish but Israel critics say they take action against supporters of Israel amid the bloody wars<\/a> in Gaza, Iran and Lebanon.<\/p>\n

The rally outside the cafe on Lorimer Street comes the day after Goldman lost his Democratic primary in the NY-10 district to Brad Lander<\/a> by a landslide nearly 2-1 margin.<\/p>\n

Israel policy was a big issue in the campaign between the two Jewish candidates<\/a> with Lander, a self-proclaimed liberal Zionist, coming out against all U.S. military aid to Israel. Goldman relied heavily on backing from pro-Israel donors.<\/p>\n

\"RepRep Dan Goldman (D-NY) greets voters outside a polling station in Manhattan’s West Village, on Primary Day, June 23, 2026 in New York City. (Photo by Laura Brett\/Getty Images)<\/p>\n

The defeated congressman said he had a positive experience at the cafe<\/a> on Monday and was shocked to see a social media post telling him not to come back.<\/p>\n

He said he does not believe any law enforcement investigation is needed<\/a> because he is a public figure and should be ready to accept criticism of his stances.<\/p>\n

Lawfare has filed a complaint against Poetica with the state Human Rights Commission.<\/p>\n

The Trump Department of Justice also says it plans to open a civil rights probe into the coffee shop, which has several locations in Brooklyn and the East Village.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Protesters rallied Wednesday outside a Brooklyn cafe that banned Rep. Dan Goldman over his support for Israel. A…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":276868,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[8069,98,5320,60,9,24,43847,63,106421,134,136,135,82],"class_list":["post-276867","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-staten-island","tag-brad-lander","tag-brooklyn","tag-dan-goldman","tag-israel","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-ny-10","tag-nyc","tag-poetica","tag-staten-island","tag-staten-island-headlines","tag-staten-island-news","tag-zohran-mamdani"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276867","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=276867"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276867\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/276868"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=276867"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=276867"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=276867"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}