‘Get out of our community'

Note: this story has been updated to reflect clarifying statements made by Cairo Takeaway staff on February 17.

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Talaat Sehia is a chef at Cairo Takeaway, a restaurant on Enmore Road in Sydney’s inner west.

Talaat was working on early Wednesday afternoon when a man came in and ordered a mint tea. The man was wearing a crisp white t-shirt, a blue-and-white baseball cap emblazoned with the Star of David and a Star of David pendant.

“He came in and ordered a tea, which Sam*, the waitress gave him,” Talaat says. “It was a takeaway tea, but once he got it, he just stood there, he didn’t leave. And because the place was empty, he just stood out.”