A major American grocery chain, Kroger, has had a customer arrested for protesting a terror symbol it allowed an employee to wear while on the job.
The report comes from the RAIR Foundation, which documented the concerns expressed by Jewish journalist Sloan Rachmuth over the threat she perceived at a Kroger subsidiary Harris Tweeter store in North Carolina, and how the corporation responded by claiming her decision to post her concerns on social media turned into a crime.
@Kroger @HarrisTeeter pro-Islamist, anti-Jewish policy#NorthCarolina police pro-Islamist, anti-Jewish policy
This is the UK's anti-free speech #lawfare and intimidation program against its citizens. Socialist, authoritarian and fascist.
This is what VP Vance chastised all… https://t.co/0xK2AUv0gM
— Elizabeth Farah 🇺🇸 🇮🇱 (@ElizabethFarah) March 3, 2025
A video of Rachmuth being told by police that something she said upset someone else, so she was being arrested.
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Amy Mek, of the RAIR Foundation, explained Rachmuth was “politically targeted, humiliated, and silenced for daring to object to a U.S. grocery store employee wearing an Islamic terror symbol – exposing a shocking case of corporate complicity, police overreach, and state-enforced antisemitism.”
Mek reported the situation developed in Holly Springs, N.C., where Rachmuth was arrested at her home in front of her terrified children.
“Her alleged crime? According to Rachmuth, she objected to a supermarket employee at Harris Teeter wearing the controversial keffiyeh, a political symbol widely associated with Hamas and its ambitions to destroy Israel and the Jewish people worldwide. Rachmuth, an outspoken advocate against antisemitism and a contributor to national media outlets on Middle Eastern affairs, explained to RAIR Foundation in an exclusive interview that she was handcuffed, marched through her neighborhood, and charged with cyberstalking, posting about the troubling incident online,” the report said.
The arrest, she said, was based on “an unverified accusation,” suggesting “law enforcement’s complicity,” the report said.
Rachmuth first had notified the store manager of the violation of the company’s corporate attire policy, then corporate headquarters.
“Indeed, Harris Teeter allowed an employee to wear a threatening symbol of Islamic and Palestinian terrorism, visibly wrapping it around her head while working with customers,” Mek reported.
When Rachmuth asked the employee, identified in the report as Amira M. Fattah, about the symbol, Fattah charged, “It’s for a Free Palestine,” confirming “she wore the keffiyeh as a political statement rather than for religious reasons.”
Rachmuth’s concerns to the store manager, Sheronna Irick, prompted a scolding to, “Like it or leave.”
She then contacted the store chain’s headquarters and posted documentation of the encounter on X.
Then workers at the store called police.
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“According to arrest records and law enforcement, store manager Sheronna Irick played a pivotal role in facilitating this retaliation,” the report said.
It was Holly Springs police officers Elliott Warren, Benjamin Marino, and Edgar Hernandez who then pounded on Rachmuth’s door and arrested her.
Marino told her, “Something you did made her uncomfortable, all right?”
The charges were dropped a day later by Wake County District Attorney Lorrin Freeman, a Democrat.
The report warned, “The case raises serious questions about lawfare and the use of activist law enforcement to target political dissenters.”
🚨 Jewish Journalist Sloan Rachmuth Arrested and Jailed for Objecting to a Hamas Symbol in a U.S. Grocery Store
IMAGINE THIS: You walk into your local Harris Teeter (Kroger) in North Carolina to grab food for your family—like you’ve done for years.
But today, something is… pic.twitter.com/2QQAcG4eip
— Amy Mek (@AmyMek) March 2, 2025
A WND call to Kroger headquarters resulted in a statement that no response to questions about the situation was allowed.
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