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Few in the food world want to touch the Palestine issue. Here s why one S.F. bar is speaking up
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Mohamed Dahleh waves the flag of Palestine while on the shoulders of Munir Abughannam in solidarity with hundreds of protesters outside the Israeli Consulate, Tuesday, May 18, 2021, in San Francisco, Calif.Santiago Mejia/The Chronicle
Two weeks ago, when the current Israel-Palestine crisis began unfolding in the Gaza Strip, I noticed that a lot more people especially non-activists were talking about it in public. But in my part of the woods, the food world, the Israeli occupation of Palestinian territories hasn’t really been a topic of conversation, though diners have long-embraced the region’s cuisines at Israeli restaurants like Philadelphia’s Zahav and Oren’s Hummus in San Francisco. If there was any conversation about Palestine, it was largely driven by Arab American women like chef-activists Amanny Ahmad and Reem