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The Guardian - US
The Guardian - US
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Wilfred Chan

A protest against a top Israel-born chef was called antisemitic. Staff tell a different story

man leans over bar and looks at dishes of food
Chef Michael Solomonov in Philadelphia in 2016. Photograph: Lisa Lake/Getty Images for Audi

The 21-second clip went viral almost as soon as it was posted early on Sunday evening. It showed hundreds of protesters, some with Palestinian flags, united in a rhyming chant: “Goldie, Goldie, you can’t hide, we charge you with genocide!”

They were protesting outside Goldie, a vegan falafel restaurant owned by Michael Solomonov, the Israel-born celebrity chef best known for Zahav, an Israeli-themed restaurant widely considered one of the United States’ finest eateries. It was one brief stop along a march traversing Philadelphia that lasted about three hours.

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