At the quiet perimeter of Oakland’s Temescal District, about 100 community members on Wednesday came out in support of Jerusalem Coffee House , a Palestinian-owned coffee shop facing three lawsuits over alleged antisemitism.

Owner Abdulrahim Harara stood at a morning press conference alongside rabbis, lawyers, patrons and other allies who said the legal campaign against him reflects a broader pattern. They accused pro-Israel groups and officials of using legal tactics to silence Palestinian voices in the U.S. under the guise of combating hate, all while ignoring or abetting an Israeli assault on Gaza so dire that even the strip’s only remaining journalists are starving to death.

“We have been forced to be traumatized, to witness this genocide, and to not have our government do an

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