Date: Tue, 18 Jun 2024 03:24:14 -0500 Mime-Version: 1.0 User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird Subject: Re: Swiss police probe hotel ski rental ban for Jewish guests Newsgroups: soc.culture.israel,soc.culture.jewish,rec.arts.movies.current-films,rec.arts.tv References: Content-Language: en-US From: trotsky In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Lines: 49 Path: ...!news-out.netnews.com!s1-1.netnews.com!feeder.usenetexpress.com!tr2.iad1.usenetexpress.com!news.newsdemon.com!not-for-mail Nntp-Posting-Date: Tue, 18 Jun 2024 08:24:14 +0000 X-Received-Bytes: 2873 Organization: NewsDemon - www.newsdemon.com X-Complaints-To: abuse@newsdemon.com Message-Id: <17da0baf3108548a$191409$273357$d54a64@news.newsdemon.com> Bytes: 3189 On 6/17/24 2:58 PM, BTR1701 wrote: > In article , > Loose Cannon wrote: > >> The Pischa mountain restaurant in Davos, Switzerland, has sparked a >> police investigation after announcing it will no longer rent out snow >> sports equipment to Jewish guests. > > How do they know the religion of their customers? Duh, by the way they haggle on the price of the rentals. Holy fuck you're stupid. >> This has caused another scandal in the alpine resort involving this >> group of guests. The Graubünden cantonal police have launched an >> investigation on suspicion of discrimination and incitement to hatred. >> The restaurant at the Pischa mountain station no longer rents out >> sledges, airboards, skis and snowshoes to Jewish guests. They are >> being informed of this in a letter in Hebrew posted on site and >> addressed disrespectfully as "our brothers", the online portal 20 >> Minuten reported on Monday. >> >> According to the letter, various “annoying incidents” had led to the >> rental stop. >> >> The media office of the Graubünden cantonal police confirmed the >> matter to the Keystone-SDA news agency on request. The police had >> received a report from a private individual. "We have classified it as >> a possible official offence and have therefore started an >> investigation," said media spokesman Roman Rüegg. >> >> On enquiry, the Swiss Federation of Jewish Communities (SIG) spoke of >> a new "level of audacity". "An entire group of guests is being >> collectively denigrated on the basis of their appearance and origin," >> wrote SIG Secretary General Jonathan Kreutner in a statement. >> >> This is not just a moral and tasteful offence. "We will take legal >> action or file a complaint for violation of the criminal offence of >> racism", Kreutner announced. >> >> For the Swiss Federation of Jewish Communities, the rental ban is not >> an isolated incident. There is a lot wrong in Davos. There are hotels, >> restaurants and shops that do not warmly welcome Jewish guests. > > Well, I don't know how you'd enforce 'warm welcomes'.