A Yiddish-speaking LGBTQ+ cafe in Scotland has closed its doors after its owners claimed to have experienced an “astonishing amount” of discrimination.
And not just anti-LGBTQ hate from the usual suspects, but antisemitism from those many may not expect to be the source.
The Pink Peacock, a Yiddish-speaking and queer-friendly cafe in Glasgow, closed its doors on Wednesday, as its owners said they had received an “astonishing amount of antisemitic vitriol” during its three years of operation from other “self-described leftists.”
The cafe said in a statement published on its website that members of its collective, who work as volunteers at the café, were suffering from “burnout” due to the stresses of “struggling under capitalism and kyriarchy,” the “ongoing pandemic” and the “constant battle to keep ourselves financially afloat.”
Co-owners Morgan Holleb and Joe Isaac alleged that they had suffered from “harassment” from the Socialist Workers Party, a small Trotskyite political party in the United Kingdom, and others. They added that several members of the collective had already or were planning to move away due to “the Jewish isolation, unchecked antisemitism in Scotland, and the impact of this harassment.”
“On top of the expected right-wing backlash from terfs [trans-exclusionary radical feminists] and bootlickers, we have received a frankly astonishing amount of antisemitic vitriol over the last three years from self-described leftists who have doxxed us, harassed us online and off, and spread rumors about us being ‘landlord’ ‘bosses’ ‘profiting off the holocaust,’” the statement read.
This is not surprising to me, given what I have seen with the rank antisemitism of many on the Left, otherwise known as Voldemort antisemitism (the-Jew-Hatred-That-Must-Not-Be-Named).
Talk about eating your own. And by “your own”, I really mean it. Behold, the Pink Peacock:
Just don’t think they are going to learn their lesson about their fellow far-Leftists any time soon.
