Every act a confession
Removed by modhttps://montreal.ctvnews.ca/second-cup-takes-back-montreal-franchise-over-hateful-incident-1.7121663
So here's a bit of research before people jump to conclusions about this situation (journalists never do research obviously).
Mai Abdulhadi is registered as the director of 3971309 CANADA INC. which is just a generic corporation registration that pretty much anyone who runs even a very small business will file for, for taxes or banking purposes. Registered at the same address is Studios Accento Inc., directed by Lana Abdulhadi (her I assume sister, who used to manage coffee shops before founding her dance studio, as quoted in an article on collabs.io "When I moved back to Montreal after working in Dubai for a few years, I was managing coffee shops" [https://www.collabs.io/mag/lana-hadi/]). She goes by Lana Hadi in general, and her social media has been disabled at the same time that Mai's was. However you can find now-untagged photos of her on her studios instagram, and if you go far enough back there's even one of her with Mai, as well as comments by a few other Abdulhadis.
More interestingly, Rami Abdulhadi is registered as a director of Mai's corporation, which would lead me to believe he was either a father or a husband. To go into this even deeper, Rami is also registered as the director of HCEP DEVELOPMENT PLANNING INTERNATIONAL INC. This is important because if you check out Rami Abdulhadis in Montréal, you find adjunct professor at McGill's Rami S. Abdulhadi [https://www.mcgill.ca/socialwork/about/people/adjunct/rami-s-abdulhadi]. In his bio it shows years of experience working in Palestine, including a stint as Dean of Engineering at Birzeit University in Palestine. This is the same Rami, by the way, as confirmed at the end of his McGill bio: Founder and Director of HCEP Center for Development Planning, Montreal, Canada. Based on his age I am now fairly confident he is her father, but that is an assumption, obviously, people can marry much older men. Likely he is registered as a director on her corporation because he, as a development specialist, was probably the one who fronted the capital to secure a franchise for his daughter, but this is pure speculation.
So while it's possible I'm wrong here, a little basic publicly accessible research by someone who isn't trying to spread weird unfounded rumours that this is a "false flag" or something would show you that Mai Abdulhadi is Palestinian, and that assuming she was Jewish or Zionist simply because she ran a Second Cup in a Jewish hospital was a massive leap that was entirely unfounded. What should be no surprise, the Jewish hospital doesn't actually require everyone on site to be Jewish, that would be ridiculous. The stress in the media on it being a "kosher" café is entirely about building up the narrative that she is a danger to Jewish people, and not because she herself keeps kosher. She is, ultimately, an incredibly upset and angry Palestinian woman who turned to Nazi rhetoric and extreme anti-semitism.
Edit: when I say "building up the narrative that she is a danger" I am not trying to imply that she isn't possibly an actual danger, just that the media has a very specific set of goals in forming all of their current news coverage that informs which words they choose when describing a situation. Someone yelling about the final solution and doing Nazi salutes could very well be a literal danger to Jewish people, and clearly has lost sight of the difference between Judaism and Zionism.
Would you say you've seen enough information to say there's reasonable doubt to scrub this as unfounded speculation or as a case of accidental antisemitism
Yes I would say with near-certainty that Mai Abdulhadi is a Palestinian engaged in anti-semitism, and this particular post seems crafted around the assumption that she was secretly Jewish
Is this person confirmed pro Israel? You don't have to be Jewish or Pro Israel to own kosher cafes. I think the contents of the article shouldn't lead you towards "Every act a confession"". I assume what you mean by that is you think this woman was doing false flag antisemitism, but is really pro Israel, but I don't see anything in the article you linked that indicates that unless I'm missing something.
Also you probably would want to put someone doing a Nazi salute under a content warning even if you thought it was a false flag Nazi salute
Yeah I think we need to be careful. There are deinfinitely some shitty people that are also against the zionist entity, but for bullshit reasons. This could very easily be that.
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I'm pretty sure this is just misinformation, pinging you all so you can edit or remove your comments, the person who owned the Kosher cafes very well could be an antisemite, which you might have been misled by the title being "Every act a confession" and not actually read the article or looked further into it
I'm leaving the report up. If another mod wants to remove this, they are welcome to.
As far as I see, this post doesn't say that she's pro-Israel. In the very least this is sus af, and all the Zionist accounts on the planet are insisting that she's longterm pro Palestinian without a shred of evidence.
Someone found this on Twitter. It's unlikely to be directly related, but geez Zionists love to do this kinda shit.
ShowIf you would check out my comment where I did a quick little bit of research, I would appreciate it. There is no substantiation to the idea that she was some Zionist plant undergoing a secret operation to discredit Palestinian protests, and adding this image to the thread, even with the caveat that it's "unlikely" to be related sort of fans the fires of leaping to conclusions and looking for ways to disavow responsibility for anti-semitism in Palestinian protest movements.
I won't speak to elsewhere, but as someone who has done Palestinian organizing in Canada for years, anti-semitism is a very real and present threat to our movement, and we have to constantly be working to educate people and direct their anger towards righteous targets rather than let Nazi rhetoric flourish.
kosher cafe
I'm not Canadian but would the franchise be considered Jewish in any way, or is it just a cafe that sells kosher certified cafe food?
Second Cup is just a second rate Starbucks in Canada, and the one she owned just happens to be located in a Jewish hopsital, so unless more information comes out about the situation, it's sort of impossible to say.
The footage shows a woman wearing a keffiyeh, black sunglasses, and a medical mask, chanting “the final solution is coming your way.”
The video also appears to show the same woman giving a Nazi salute during the protest.
Montreal police said on Monday the incident is under investigation by its hate crimes section.
Peter Mammas, the president of Foodtastic, Second Cup’s parent company, told CTV News that they were made aware of the video on Saturday afternoon.
Mammas said several employees identified the woman in the video as Mai Abdulhadi, the franchisee of the Second Cup café at the hospital.
“Right after I found out, I actually called the president of the hospital, and we had a discussion, and we assured them that we would do the right thing, and that's what we proceeded to do,” Mammas said.
How the fuck does this even happen? Surely she has some familial connection to the holocaust that makes this beyond the pale?
As incredibly fucked up as it sounds I think part of the mentality is “It’s our turn”
Uncle Sam said it's MY turn to play with the Holocaust machine!
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Well, quelle fucking surprise.Seems this was misinfo, so I'm taking back my not-shocked-Pikachu style comment but leaving it for posterity. It was mostly a Peep Show reference and because Montreal, but it makes sense to accept and acknowledge this slop indulgence was slapdash. Something that doesn't help in an environment already full psy-ops, disinfo, crybulling, paid agitators, and twisted narratives. Sometimes an unhinged bigot may just be an unhinged bigot.