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DOJ probes coffee shop chain in New York after it bars pro-Israel US lawmaker

  • The Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division opened a probe into a Brooklyn coffee shop after it posted it would have refused service to Rep. Dan Goldman.
  • Poetica Coffee said it wouldn’t serve “racists…genocide enablers,” refunded Goldman’s purchase, and then removed its Instagram post/account.
  • Goldman — who visited with his young daughter — is in a close June 23 primary, and the episode feeds into heated debate over Israel–Gaza and politics.
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