Poetica Coffee’s Dan Goldman hate: Letters – Latest News
The Issue: Poetica Coffee in Brooklyn refunding and banning Rep. Dan Goldman for his stance on Israel.
I examine Rep. Dan Goldman being banned from Poetica Coffee with profound disdain (“Foaming over Israel,” June 23).
Is that how it’s in New York now? If you assist Israel or Jewish causes, don’t store right here?
Rep. Dan Goldman (D-NY) speaks after inspecting Delaney Hall which is getting used as an Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention middle on May 27, 2026 in Newark, New Jersey. Getty Images
New York has develop into an antisemitic cesspool — with Mayor Mamdani because the chief hate monger.
George McNally
Somers Point, NJ
Poetica can be declared antisemitic by Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., who with great knowledge declared, “When people criticize Zionists, they mean Jews. You’re talking about antisemitism.”
Discriminating towards Jews and emulating Joseph Goebbels in public lodging could also be superior for the racists at Poetica Coffee, nevertheless it violates New York state civil-rights law.
Richard Sherman
Margate, Fla.
Memo to Parviz Mukhamadkulov, proprietor of Poetica Coffee in Williamsburg: Your infantile online outburst branding Goldman as “a genocide enabler” has satisfied me to write down a test payable to the American Israel Public Affairs Committee, an group for which you have got expressed contempt.
And if I ever do have a probability to go to one of your seven welcoming areas, I’ll be sure to first pin a yellow Star of David on my shirt.
Charles Winokoor
Fall River, Mass.
No one was in Dan Goldman’s nook more than I used to be when the proprietor of “Poetica Coffee” refunded his money and banned Goldman from his New York City store just because Goldman is a supporter of Israel. Then, to my amazement, Goldman took the high street by posting a gracious, non-confrontational reply to the espresso store proprietor.
Sadly, Goldman took that chance to bash the president, suggesting that the true enemy was the “divisive” President Trump. Initially, I had hoped to achieve out to Goldman with a message of assist. Now I’d like to inform Goldman, “thanks” for losing my sympathy, my reward and my time.
Dennis Kerbis
Staten Island
What occurs if you combine espresso and politics at Poetica Coffee? You get politics!
In this case, the combination of ignorance and hate produces much less than poetry. I ponder what Parviz Mukhamadkulov places in his “genocide juice” if it’s on the barista’s menu.
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The Mamdanistas received on the polls so we should count on many more outbursts from New York’s new, “educated” avenue mob — pitchforks, torches, and slogans however.
Robert April
Manhattan
The newest account of uneducated people accusing Israel of committing genocide is Poetica Coffee, whose proprietor unabashedly regretted serving Rep. Goldman as a result of he’s Jewish and supposedly helps genocide in Gaza.
In an effort to cover their antisemitism, Hollywood elites and Palestinians have redefined “genocide” to incorporate the unintended killing of civilians who occur to be in buildings serving as Hamas’ headquarters.
If Israel supposed to destroy an complete population in Gaza, why on the planet wouldn’t it give civilians advance discover to vacate?
Those with anti-Israel views clearly don’t care in regards to the fact.
Donald Tribbett
Logansport, Ind.
For centuries, hostility towards Jews has loved a peculiar privilege: It’s skilled by its practitioners not as hatred, however as righteousness.
The antisemite isn’t the villain in his own story. He’s the Spanish inquisitor saving souls, the German schoolteacher shaping younger minds, the Soviet official purging harmful reactionaries.
The espresso store proprietor that humiliates a Jewish buyer doesn’t see himself as a bigot, he sees himself as practising advantage.
Todd Pittinsky
Port Jefferson
First off, what true working-class individual would pay $9.82 for a espresso? Second, Poetica Coffee lists the people it received’t serve — fascist, genocide enablers and so forth. Why doesn’t it record socialists and communists? That kind of authorities has killed more people than another in human historical past.
Bruce Collins
Middletown, NJ
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