The Philadelphia-based non-profit Eat Up the Borders removed an Israeli vendor from participating in this year’s “The Taste of Home” event after it was alerted to protests being planned against the presence of the Israeli vendor.
“The Taste of Home” event, which takes place on Sunday, Father’s Day, is organized to bring awareness to immigrant-owned businesses across the Philadelphia metropolitan area.
Statement by Moshava on their Instagram account –
We have some unfortunate news to share with all of you. We won’t be attending “The Taste of Home” event, this Sunday, on Father’s Day. We are deeply saddened by this. The organizers of the event heard rumors of a protest happening because of us being there and decided to uninvite us from fear that the protesters would get aggressive and threaten their event. We were really hoping that the organizers @eatuptheborders and @sunflowerphilly would step up to the plate and defend local, small and immigrant based businesses, no matter where they are from (as per their so called “mission statement”) but by the looks of it fear, violence, and intimidation got the best of them.
We really do hope that in the future you don’t succumb to such antisemitic and dividing rethoric and keep true to your words of a safe environment for all religions and nationalities- not just all of them except Israeli and Jewish ones.
Nonetheless we will be keeping our promise to give back to our community and will be donating 50% of our proceeds on Father’s Day to the family of Pedro Salazar.
A Philadelphia event celebrating diversity has uninvited an Israeli owner of a food truck because the police couldn't protect him from Antisemitism.
— Joel M. Petlin (@Joelmpetlin) June 20, 2021
Letting haters win by DISCRIMINATING at an event celebrating DIVERSITY.
It should be renamed *The Ironic Taste of Antisemitism* pic.twitter.com/7zuakua2CE