JEWISH JOURNAL
LA Staples Employee Denies Service to Black Jewish Woman Over Her Zionist Postcards
Aaron Bandler
April 9, 2025
An employee at a Los Angeles Staples on Wilshire Boulevard refused to print a Black Jewish woman’s postcards with phrases “Black Jewish Zionist Squad” and “Jewish Joy” on April 7, according to video posted to social media that has gone viral. The video shows an employee, wearing a name badge that says “Ryatt,” saying that “we are not able to print anything that has any racist messages,” specifying that he found the “Zionist” postcard to be racist. The woman, Elisheva Rishon, who recorded and posted video of the April 7 encounter on Instagram in a story titled “staples incident,” countered that Zionism is not racism and that she is Black. READ MORE