Evelyne Joan

On June 23, 2024, Joan reportedly participated in a pro-Hamas riot in Los Angeles, California, where she verbally assaulted the police. The riot began as a protest outside the Adas Torah synagogue.

At the protest, Joan was filmed yelling [00:00:01] at the police through a megaphone: “Your mother would be ashame [sic] of you. You’re hitting women…What a shame! Shame! Shame on you!...”

On June 23, 2024, a violent riot broke out outside a synagogue in a densely populated Jewish area in Los Angeles, California. The protest was organized by anti-Israel agitators in response to a sale of “housing projects in all the best [English-speaking] neighborhoods in Israel.” During the protest, anti-Israel activists blocked [00:00:11] access to the synagogue and, later in the day, harassed Jewish residents in their neighborhood.

On July 5, 2024, the Jewish Journal reported on Joan and the Mauro Cafe: “On June 30 a man wearing a yarmulke was seen entering her restaurant and leaving after a few minutes, claiming he was refused service. ‘The owner, she said I cannot buy coffee,’ he said upon leaving the restaurant. When another man asked him why, he replied: ‘Because I’m Jewish.’ … A woman who appeared to be a waitress at the restaurant then asked them to leave the property.”

A June 24, 2024 Instagram post reported [slide 5] that Joan had spread antisemitism. The post documented that Joan refused a customer’s request to host an event “for Jews and Israel” at Mauro Cafe. Joan told the customer to take the event to the adjacent, predominantly Jewish city of Beverly Hills, implying “THAT JEWS ARE NOT WELCOME AT HER ESTABLISHMENT.”

The incidents occurred during Israel’s war against Hamas, called “Swords of Iron.” Israel launched the war after a series of Hamas terror attacks and war crimes against Israeli civilians, including mass murder, torture, rape, beheadings and kidnappings, which were executed on October 7, 2023. The terror attacks left approximately 1,200 Israelis dead, hundreds kidnapped and thousands wounded.

For more information on the October 7, 2023 terror attacks, see the Canary Mission page on Hamas.