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I serve cats and dogs but not Jews, café owner tells family on holiday in Vietnam

Palestine-supporting cafe owner in Hanoi refuses to serve Jewish family

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A Jewish family on holiday in Vietnam has faced sickening abuse from a café owner who told them he would serve “dogs and cats” but not Jews.

A video shows the owner of the “Railway Tuan Café” in Hanoi launching the tirade at a Jewish woman and her two young children as they sit at a table. One of the children can be seen wearing a kippah.

“Get out, don’t sit there. My shop does not accept people from your country. I don’t welcome you,” the owner says.

Raising his middle finger in the air in a “f**k off” gesture, he says: “We just welcome the human animals, dogs and cats”.

The shocked Jewish father can be heard asking if the restaurant owner “considers me a human for being Jewish”, to which there is no reply.

The Jewish man’s wife then tells the camera that the abuser “told me, careful of your kids because Israel is gonna send a bomb”.

Later in the footage, the café owner can be heard asking “where you come from?”, to which the Jewish father replies, “Palestine”.

The cafe owner then appears to proudly point out the 'Free Palestine' sticker visible on the shop’s sign.

The video was reposted approvingly by a number of pro-Palestinian accounts on Twitter / X.

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