"Karimi's own explanation was that Walton “would have slid by” if she had agreed there was a genocide and said she did not support the Israeli government."
"Jessica Walton says her eyebrow appointment at Karimi Brows in Alexandria ended when the owner, Fatana Karimi, told her to leave. Walton is Jewish and Israeli-American. Karimi later posted part of the argument herself.
"Walton said she and Karimi had spent much of the appointment talking about Afghanistan. Walton had recently finished a novel partly set there and told Karimi about the Afghans she had interviewed, as well as their shared interest in Afghan poetry and food." . . .
. . . "The trouble started, Walton said, after she described the novel's Jewish half-Israeli character and mentioned that she was Jewish and half-Israeli herself.
"Karimi told her to leave, according to Walton.
"Get out of my shop."
"Excuse me?"
"I can't provide service to an Israeli. It's against my political beliefs. You need to leave immediately."
"Walton says Karimi also told her there was “no such thing as Israel” and described Israel as Palestine stolen by Jews. Karimi's own video starts later, after the two women were already arguing, so those remarks aren't on the clip.
"Writer Gary Weiss posted Walton's account Friday and also pointed to the video Karimi had released from the salon." . . .
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