Leftist baristas quit Jewish-owned NYC coffee shop over its support of Israel. It's about to close — then community steps up.

Leftist baristas walked off their jobs at a Jewish-owned New York City coffee shop due to the owner's open support of Israel. With a sudden lack of workers, Caffe Aronne was about to close its doors — and then the surrounding community stepped up to keep it open.

What are the details?

"We put up Israeli flags in all of our locations, and then we put up kidnapping signs in all our windows, and I think that’s what upset our team," Caffe Aronne owner Aaron Dahan told WNYW-TV. "A lot of people were not willing to be a part of that and called it quits."

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Dahan, 25, said a total of five baristas have left since Oct. 7, the day Hamas attacked Israel, the New York Post reported.

The shop also started a fundraiser to help Magen David Adom — the Israeli Red Cross — and “our staff was not for it,” Dahan added to the Post.

“Our staff was young. They think they know everything, liberal, college-educated,” he also told the paper. “They think we’re supporting genocide, we’re supporting colonialism. They know the keywords, but they don’t really know what they mean.”

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Left without a viable workforce, Dahan called his mother, Peggy, on Tuesday morning and asked her to shut down the shop for the day, the Post said.

“He said, ‘Mom, I’m doing a private event. I need to close the shop.' I said, ‘Aaron, I’m not letting anybody close your shop,'” Peggy Dahan told the paper.

With that, friends and her assistant came to help run the store, the Post said.

“It’s insane what’s going on,” Peggy Dahan noted to the paper. “What happened this morning is I got all these texts from people I don’t even know saying, ‘Peggy, we’re coming.’ I walk in, two people were hugging me at 8:30 a.m. Now there’s a line around the corner. It just shows what an amazing community we have.”

More from the Post:

Around 70 people were lined up outside the shop, stretching down Lexington Avenue and 71st Street while many held Israel’s flag around 1 p.m. The store has seen a significant bump in customers after news spread about their baristas, with local doctors and rabbis stopping in and encouraging people to buy gift cards and purchase menu items.

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"New York came together and supported us," Aaron Dahan told WNYW. "It's really very special."

'All this anti-Semitism is very frightening'

Neighborhood resident Bina Dabbah, 57, told the Post she came into the store to offer help as soon as she heard the news and was willing to “wash the dishes, to mop the floors.”

“All this anti-Semitism is very frightening,” Dabbah added to the paper. “I know the baristas here, and it’s just very upsetting that all these young people are — I don’t know what they are, ignorant? Hateful? Brainwashed? It’s very scary this is what’s happening in this country, but I hope somebody knows how to fix it because it’s really scary.”

Upper East Side café receives outpouring of support after baristas walk out to protest Israel-Hamasyoutu.be

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