This tweet by Ryan Fournier has the video of the hundreds who stood up to protest the Skokie 2.0 I hate Jooooos bike ride. It seems that decent Philadelphins, and others, were not going to meekly bend the knee to the repugnant anti-Semitic and pro-Hamas attempt to drive Jewish businesses out of the City of Brotherly Love.
The controversial ‘Boycott Ride’ drew a larger counter-rally in support of Philadelphia’s Jewish-owned eateries
Six Jewish-owned eateries in Center City were the target Sunday of a controversial bike-ride boycott — and a counterprotest that drew hundreds of people to patronize the businesses.
by Maggie Prosser, Brett Sholtis, and Dana Munro | Sunday, November 8, 2026 | 12:04 PM EST
Hundreds turned out Sunday in support of six Center City eateries owned by Jewish restaurateurs — a rebuke to a bike-ride protest that has roiled social media in recent days and unsettled Philadelphia’s Jewish community.
The dueling demonstrations were the latest way the fraught politics of the Israel-Hamas war are in the region.
The “Boycott Ride” — what organizers described as a protest against what they called “Zionist establishments” — was widely denounced by officials as antisemitic and hateful, eliciting ire and admonishments from City Hall to the United States Congress.
“The public targeting of Jewish businesses should alarm every person of conscience,” the Jewish Federation of Greater Philadelphia said in a statement this week. “We cannot allow such hatred to become normalized in Philadelphia.”
Bike-ride organizers said in a statement posted to Instagram on Saturday that they stand against antisemitism and that they are focusing on the businesses because of their owners’ support for Israel.
Yup, that’s what they said, certainly enough, but no sensible person believes them. To them, all Jews are Zionists, so hating Jews, at least Jews who stand up for themselves, and hating ‘Zionists’ and hating Israelis are all the same thing.
I do not know if “James” tweet to the left is meant to be a parody or not. He says he is, in his Twitter bio, “Free Palestine | Marxist Anti-Imperialist | Bylines in @Mondoweiss | Philadelphia DSA International Solidarity Committee Co-Chair” and that he lives in “Occupied Lenape Territory,” but tweeted “The Philadelphia bike ride counter protest is a very good example of why Jersey residents shouldn’t be allowed in Philly.”
Awww! Did he get his precious little feelings hurt?
He wants to “Free Palestine,” but is stuck living on “Occupied Lenape Territory.” Just think how he could have solved both problems, by picking up a rifle and going to Gaza, thereby leaving Occupied Lenape territory, to fight to free ‘Palestine.’ But the ‘revolutionaries’ never really leave the comforts of Western civilization.
Why, I’ve heard that there isn’t a single Starbucks or Ben & Jerry’s in Gaza! Even the most hard-core freedom fighter can’t be expected to do without his pumpkin spice latte!