The owner of New York City’s only Ethiopian-Israeli restaurant claimed she was forced to close because of a wave of harassment over the Gaza war — prompting calls for state and city authorities to launch a civil right probe into antisemitism. Ethiopia native Beejhy Barhany, who opened Tsion Cafe in Harlem in 2014, said vitriol and hate directed at the eatery intensified after Hamas’ Oct. 7, 2023 attack on Israel and the subsequent war in Gaza. “Everything kind of changed — so much animosity,” Berhany, who immigrated to Israel before moving to New York, told Jewish Week. The situation worsened...
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