Upper Southampton police are investigating a possible antisemitic incident at Café Ole in Huntingdon Valley on the night of Wednesday, November 1.

The coffee shop’s video surveillance footage shows four men in masks ripping an Israeli flag off one of its walls then taking it with them around the shopping center at 1051 County Line Road.

“It was a very cowardly act,” Lawrence Kalikhman, a co-owner at Café Ole, said. “Started screaming, ‘Free Palestine.’ Ripped the flag off. I don’t know what they were trying to accomplish, but what they did accomplish was hate and terror.”

According to CBS News, Upper Southampton police are investigating the incident, but declined to provide more details.

The flag is back up on the wall inside Café Ole in the Valley. On Thursday, the following was posted on the cafe’s Facebook page:

The message below was posted on Friday:

Area resident Monique Hofkin is offering a $1,000 reward for information leading to each arrest in the incident.  

“I felt like I had to do something,” Hofkin told CBS. “This is my place. This is all of our place. When you do something to one of us, you do something to all of us.”

“I hope that they are caught and are prosecuted to the fullest extent so, people like them, people in the community, people who want to cause hate violence or disruption in a peaceful environment, understand it’s not going to be tolerated,” Kalikhman told FOX29.

Anyone with any information about this incident is asked to call the Detectives Unit at the Upper Southampton Township Police Department.

For more on Café Ole, you can click here. For the shop’s video footage, you can watch CBS’ video below:

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Screengrab: CBS | Photos: Cafe Ole