Oakland Coffee Shop Fires Employees Amid Antisemitism Accusations

Published on December 14, 2023

A coffee shop in Oakland, California, fired several employees for denying a Jewish woman access to its restroom after she complained it had been tagged with antisemitic graffiti. Farley’s coffee shop last week became the center of a controversy after a video surfaced on social media showing several employees blocking a woman from using the restroom. In the video, the woman states that she wants to take a video of antisemitic graffiti in the restroom. At the end of the video, the employees let the woman into the restroom, and the woman held up the camera to show that the words “zionism = fascism” were written on the restroom’s mirror....