YouTube star in hate show
A controversial Muslim YouTuber who rocketed to Internet stardom in street fight videos has been posting footage of himself harassing customers in an Israeli café and at a Starbucks in Manhattan, revolting some fans who ripped him as “antisemitic.”
Adam Saleh — who’s been seen in photos with Mike Tyson and Andrew Tate and was set to fight on a Jake Paul undercard last February before the match was canceled last minute — stormed Union Square café Blue Stripes and pulled down its Israeli flag in December.
Flag attack
“Free, free Palestine,” chanted Saleh, 30, as he and two friends paraded around the café in the Dec. 15 video, which collected more than 50,000 “likes” before being deleted following The Post’s inquiry. It is still up on the Jewish Breaking News Instagram.
In the video, Saleh — a Brooklyn native whose parents are from Yemen, and who has 4.7 million YouTube subscribers and 1.5 million Instagram followers — turns to a huge Israeli flag hanging in the window of the coffee shop.
“I should take that off,” he says as he unhooks one corner of the flag, letting it fall to the side.
“You don’t have a right to do that,” one shocked patron countered.
“I don’t give a f–k what you say,” Saleh responds.
“You know they’re killing kids, they’re promoting killing kids,” he continues, repeating claims by the Hamas terrorist group.
Café owner Alon Kazdan, 49, said he put up the Israeli flag after the Oct. 7 terrorist attacks on his country, and now protestors come in every day to disrupt his shop.
“I get these people who come in saying, ‘Free Palestine,’ and cursing and doing whatever they feel like doing, you know, but I’m okay with it,” Kazdan, who is from Tel Aviv, told The Post.
A day later, Saleh posted a video of himself in a Union Square Starbucks, yelling at customers that they were “funding a genocide” since the coffee giant distanced itself from a since-deleted “Solidarity with Palestine” post by its union.
Starbucks CEO Laxman Narasimhan blamed recent acts of vandalism of the stores on “protesters influenced by misrepresentation on social media of what we stand for.” Starbucks said in a statement that it condemns violence.
Saleh did not respond to a request for comment.