When anti-Israel protesters tried to scare diners away from six Jewish-owned restaurants in Philadelphia on the eve of Kristallnacht's 88th anniversary, their disgusting stunt blew up in their faces.
Hundreds of people packed the targeted restaurants. Lines wrapped around city blocks, and one spot worried it would run out of food. The protesters set out to drive customers away, and they wound up bringing them in by the hundreds. Thankfully, Philadelphians showed up for their Jewish neighbors when it counted.
Nobody picks the anniversary of the night Nazi mobs torched synagogues and smashed Jewish shops across Germany by accident. These agitators knew exactly what they were doing, and the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) reports the New York Post.
"This protest is an attempt to intimidate a Jewish community that has faced generations of violence, exclusion and antisemitism," the ADL said in a statement. "It’s the latest in a string of incidents that hold Jewish businesses responsible for events in the Middle East."
"That’s antisemitic, plain and simple. But we refuse to let hate win," the group added.
As good as this ending was, it can't paper over the rot spreading through the left. I’ve said before that antisemitism has gone mainstream in the Democrat Party, and nothing has proven me wrong.
Yet, for some reason, too many American Jews keep marching in lockstep with a party that has made a comfortable home for people who want to destroy them.
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Dr. Sheila Nazarian appeared on Fox News this week and gave a brilliant assessment of what's really going on.
"Anti-Semitism like this is an indicator that a society is ill, okay?" Nazarian told Fox News @ Night. "It's happened in Europe, it's happening here, and it's being funded by foreign adversaries like Qatar, like China and Russia with their bots."
She pointed straight at the universities. "They are funding, especially the humanities departments of the colleges, where we're seeing an insane amount of antisemitism," she said. "These kids are growing up — we saw it on the college campuses, we're seeing now on the streets of Philadelphia: this is unabashed, normalized, unfortunately, antisemitism."
Antisemitism is an indicator that a society is ill. It happened in Europe. It’s happening here.
— Dr. Sheila Nazarian (@sheilanazarian) November 13, 2026
And it’s being funded by foreign adversaries like Qatar, China, and Russia, through bots and through money poured into university humanities departments. What started on college… https://t.co/KbeVyX53Xa
Conservatives have warned for years that the campus hate mobs wouldn't stay on campus. Now they are harassing restaurant owners on the anniversary of Kristallnacht.
Nazarian then turned to the leftist Jews who keep defending that very movement, and she didn't hold back.
"The American ‘Jews’ have replaced Judaism and self-preservation of the Jews with progressivism," she said. "They're not practicing Judaism; they are practicing progressivism, and they have forgotten what it is to protect oneself, to protect the Jewish people."
She explained who is actually standing up to the hate. "So, the Jews that you will see fighting on the right, fighting against this hateful behavior that has been normalized within the Democratic Party, are from Russia, are from Iran, are from the Middle East, are from South America," Nazarian continued. "The people who have seen when the antisemites join hands with the Marxists and the Socialists. We are the ones screaming the loudest. We have seen this movie before, and we do not want to live through the sequel."
Many American “Jews” have replaced Judaism with progressivism. Their social lives, their work lives, and the way they see themselves are tied more to the progressive space than to the Jewish people and Israel.
— Dr. Sheila Nazarian (@sheilanazarian) November 13, 2026
The Jews fighting back the loudest come from Russia, Iran, the Middle… https://t.co/qXgBqJrmHm
That assessment is spot on.
So many of the left-wing Jews have traded their faith and their sense of survival for a political identity, and then they go on to defend the very coalition that is going after them.
