It’s interesting to me that the journalists of our nation’s third oldest, continuously published daily newspaper, took until Friday to manage to write up a report on a Philadelphia story which has been in the news for a day now, but I can see the problem they had: how do you write a story about a deliberately anti-Semitic and inflammatory ‘action’ in moderate and non-judgemental terms.
Planned protest against Jewish-owned Philly restaurants draws ire, security, and feelings of unease
The “Boycott Ride,” scheduled for Sunday in Rittenhouse Square, has sparked ire on social media and drawn international scrutiny.
by Maggie Prosser | Friday, November 6, 2026 | 9:05 AM EST
Philadelphia business leaders and elected officials are condemning a planned bike-ride protest against half a dozen eateries owned by Jewish restaurateurs, days before the cyclists are set to gather in Center City.
The “Boycott Ride” has drawn ire internationally in recent days, as many have denounced the anticipated action — planned for the eve of Kristallnacht on Sunday — as antisemitic and hateful. In response, city, state, and congressional leaders have called for increased security, and Philadelphia’s Jewish community have rallied behind the businesses.
Kristallnacht, of the Night of Broken Glass, was an action by the Nazis on November 9-10, 1938, targeting Jewish businesses across Germany. The Sturmabteilung (SA), the Nazis’ paramilitary group commonly called the Brown Shirts, Schutzstaffel (SS), and Hitlerjugend or Hitler Youth carried out the attacks. Supposedly it was in response to the assassination of Ernst vom Rath, a Nazi diplomat in Paris, by a Polish Jew named Herschel Grynszpan, but it was far too organized given that Herr vom Rath has only been killed on November 9th
One photo from Kristallnacht shows a sign Auszug der Juden which translates as “Exodus of the Jews.”
“Everyone has the right to peacefully protest and express their political views,” Philadelphia Mayor Cherelle L. Parker said in a statement. “But singling out businesses because their owners are Jewish is unacceptable and has no place in our city.”
It’s unclear how many people will participate in the bike ride or how the organizers plan to express their dissent. An Instagram post promoting the demonstration had about 650 likes as of Friday morning. Meanwhile, a counter, “community food crawl” has galvanized, encouraging people to patronize the targeted businesses this weekend.
Sounds peaceable enough, right?
Organizers of the “Boycott Ride” said on Instagram the cycling demonstration was intended to show pro-Palestinian solidarity and protest six businesses they say are “Zionist establishments”: Mac Mart, K’Far Cafe, Huda, Goldie, Dizengoff, and Schlesinger’s Deli. A widely circulated flier reads, “No business for Zionists! These Zionist Establishments must go! Not in our city!”
I’m pretty sure that were Jews in Philly to organize a boycott of Middle Eastern restaurants, to try to force Arabs/Muslims out of business and out of the city, the Inquirer would be more vociferous in their articles. But, at least as of 1:04 PM EST on Friday, not a single article, by any of the newspaper’s many columnists, or by the Editorial Board itself, mentioned this ‘event.’ Interestingly, when I checked Bluesky, I saw absolutely nothing on this “boycott ride”.
The Instagram site reporter Maggie Prosser linked also shows that the “boycott ride” is not the only pro-‘Palestinian’ event they have planned; the following Sunday they have a schedule “ride of return,” something referencing the so-called “right of return,” in which the Arabs claim that they have a right to return to the homes they abandoned in Israel during the 1948 war. The Arab armies which attacked the newly declared Jewish state told the Arab families to get out of the way, and that they’d get their homes back after the Jews had been crushed and killed. Alas! for them, the Jews didn’t go along with being crushed or killed. Yassir Arafat used the lack of a “right of return” as his excuse for refusing the early 2021 agreement in which the ‘Palestinians’ would be given Gaza, Judea, and Samaria to become their own independent state, though I believe the real reason he refused was that the irredentists would have assassinated him upon his return.
The organizers are claiming that they don’t hate Jews, but just that they oppose Zionism. Well, we saw how they do things in Philly, as the “Students for Justice in Palestine” harassed Jews at Temple University’s Hillel Center rather than protest at the Israeli consulate just 2½ miles up Broad Street.
Will there be violence during the “boycott ride”? Well, who knows? Mayor Cherelle Parker Mullins and Police Commissioner Kevin Bethel are planning a strong police presence in Rittenhouse Square, and there might be plenty of counter-protesters defending the Jewish-owned businesses. Most of the ‘revolutionary cosplayers’ are at heart cowardly, attacking only when they have an obvious numerical advantage. One thing I have noticed: none of the ‘Palestinian’ supporters ever picked up a rifle and went to Gaza to actually fight the Jooooos they hate.