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You can’t food-wash apartheid. Naming a Philadelphia food truck “Moshava” after a colonial tradition is appropriate considering that its supposed Israeli menu is predominantly Arab food, appropriated by Israel much the same as they’ve appropriated Palestinian lands, home, and heritage. There is nothing Israeli about shawarma, hummus, falafel, or arayes, all of which predate the state of Israel by a few dozen centuries.