Brooklyn coffee shop under civil rights investigation after banning pro-Israel congressman
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A local Brooklyn coffee shop has become the center of a federal probe after allegedly refusing future service to Rep. Dan Goldman over his vocal support for Israel.
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Rep. Dan Goldman says he had a positive interaction at Brooklyn's Poetica Coffee before the shop banned him over his support for Israel and posted his image online.
The Jusice Department’s Civil Rights Division has opened an investigation into a woke Park Slope coffee shop that denied service to a pro-Israel politician, and warned an enforcement action could be coming.
Poetica Coffee owner Parviz Mukhamadkulov, who threatened to refuse service to Rep. Dan Goldman, is a donor to scandal-plagued Senate candidate Graham Platner.
A local Brooklyn coffee shop has become the center of a federal probe after allegedly refusing future service to Rep. Dan Goldman over his vocal support for Israel.
NYC coffee shop Poetica Coffee criticized Rep. Dan Goldman after he purchased coffee, saying it would have turned him away as a "genocide enabler." The DOJ is now investigating.
By Kanishka SinghWASHINGTON, June 20 (Reuters) - The Justice Department said on Monday it opened a probe into a small coffee shop chain in New York City which posted online that it would have turned away pro-Israel U.S. Representative Dan Goldman had it recognized him during a weekend visit.
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