Brooklyn: Palestinian Arab restaurant under fire for 'openly genocidal' menu.
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Residents furious after new restaurant prints 'From the River to the Sea' in large letters on menu along with other anti-Israel material.
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Israel National News, Dec 28, 2023, 6:12 PM (GMT+2)
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A new Palestinian-Arab-owned restaurant in Brooklyn, New York sparked controversy for including the phrase 'From the River to the Sea' on its menus, the Daily Beast reported.
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The restaurant, Ayat, was opened earlier this month in the Ditmas Park neighborhood and is the third to be opened from a small chain owned by Ayat Masoud and her husband, Abdul Elenani.
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The seafood section of the restaurant menu features the term 'From the River to the Sea' a call for the complete destruction of the State of Israel and its Jewish citizens between the Jordan River and the Mediterranean Sea. The phrase is featured above the menu options in larger print than anything else on the page...
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Local residents strongly criticized the menu for its political and divisive content on a community Facebook page, with one calling the menu "openly genocidal."