They’re drawing lines in the flour.
Employees of the NYC mini-chain Breads Bakery, which is a spinoff of a popular Tel Aviv bakery, is seeking to unionize — and radicalize.
But both their demands and their stated plight are half-baked.
The members of the newly formed Breaking Breads Union initiative have tied their Jewish Israeli employer to “genocide” while stating they “want more than minimum wage.”
Most minimum wage workers “want” more as well, and that is achieved by going out and getting a different, higher paying job. But in today’s world, it’s much easier to attach grievances to the trendy anti-Zionist movement.
“We demand a future with a redistribution of profits, safer working conditions, more respect and an end to this company’s support of the genocide happening in Palestine,” the unionizers wrote in an Instagram post.
For good measure, the account added a Palestinian flag emoji.
These workers applied for and accepted a job with a bakery that , they knew full well, is owned by Israeli Jews. Yet now they’re demanding the owners abandon their core beliefs to suit the whims of the people they employ.
It’s not only absurd, it’s an inversion of reality.
But what can one expect from people who see themselves in the same boat as genocide victims —all because they’re paid to bake and sell babka in the greatest country in the world.
“We see our struggles for fair pay, respect and safety as connected to struggles against genocide and forces of exploitation around the world,” the statement continued.
For example: They had to suffer the indignity of working on “Zionist projects” such as baking cookies with Israeli flags and catering The Great Nosh, a citywide festival of Jewish food. Both activities, they claim, are “connected to organizations that donate millions each year to the IDF.”
Breaking Breads stated that they “cannot and will not ignore the implicit and explicit support this bakery has for Israel.” It only took them more than two years after the October 7 Hamas massacre that sparked the Gaza conflict.
And three months after a ceasefire was signed.
But this, of course, isn’t about conviction. It’s about convenience and opportunity, as the drumbeat of anti-Zionist has only intensified and the permission for antisemitism has grown.
A Breads rep responded in a statement saying the bakery “is built on love and genuine care for our team. We make babka; we don’t engage in politics. We celebrate peace and embrace people of all cultures and beliefs.”
And they do make damn good babka and well, everything.
Still, the unionizers want their pound of flesh. They want to subjugate their Jewish bosses. To punish them for being Jewish.
“There are deep cultural changes that need to happen here, and we need to see accountability from upper management,” they wrote.
These staffers are clearly products of gentle parenting, where boundaries are nonexistent and emotions are always validated.
But this is a free country: Breads can do business as they see fit and these people can find another job. Or here’s another thought. They can start their own business and run it as they see fit. They can sell keffiyeh cookies and live in a commune where morning affirmations include “from the river to the sea” chants.
They can demonstrate what respect in the workplace means. Please, comrades, show us this glittering utopia.
But they will not, because they don’t have the ingredients. They seek the warmth of collectivism and fashionable causes but do not possess the rugged individualism to build something from scratch.
It’s typical behavior for social justice warriors who screamed for a ceasefire — until we got one.
Because, even months after one was negotiated, they’re still not happy. Nor are they worried about the people of Gaza.
They’re looking out for the people in the mirror, using the Palestinian cause to benefit themselves.
That’s how noble and serious they are.
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