Switzerland’s main Jewish organization has denounced an antisemitic sign put up at a local ski shop near Davos, barring Jews from renting equipment from the store.
What makes more sense? 1) Israeli tourists cause problems in shop, including stealing a sled. Shop owner posts sign banning Israeli tourists from the shop.
“Israeli tourists cause problems in shop, including stealing a sled. Shop owner posts sign banning Jewish tourists from the shop.”
More than 20% of Israel’s population isn’t Jewish.
From the article, it seems that at least the rest of the allegations are towards ultra-orthodox Israeli Jews.
Which are easy to recognize.
The term ‘Jewish’ referring to both the followers of the religion and people of Hebrew descent in general makes it very hard (for me, at least) to keep track of a conversation like this, and any inaccuracies in usage of any related terms is a product of personal ignorance about the nuances of the words, not an attempt at veiled racism.
That said, the sign said ‘our Jewish brothers’, and didn’t actually mention Israel at all; the presumption that it’s referring to Israeli tourists is only mentioned later. Whether it was referring to Israelis in general, or orthodox jews as mentioned later in the article, we can only guess, but I don’t think it really matters, as either way, it’s discriminatory. I’m certainly not defending his response to the situation.
“Israeli tourists cause problems in shop, including stealing a sled. Shop owner posts sign banning Jewish tourists from the shop.”
More than 20% of Israel’s population isn’t Jewish.
From the article, it seems that at least the rest of the allegations are towards ultra-orthodox Israeli Jews.
Which are easy to recognize.
The term ‘Jewish’ referring to both the followers of the religion and people of Hebrew descent in general makes it very hard (for me, at least) to keep track of a conversation like this, and any inaccuracies in usage of any related terms is a product of personal ignorance about the nuances of the words, not an attempt at veiled racism.
That said, the sign said ‘our Jewish brothers’, and didn’t actually mention Israel at all; the presumption that it’s referring to Israeli tourists is only mentioned later. Whether it was referring to Israelis in general, or orthodox jews as mentioned later in the article, we can only guess, but I don’t think it really matters, as either way, it’s discriminatory. I’m certainly not defending his response to the situation.
Ah, I was just clarifying that part in the quote from your reply.
Personally, I don’t make a distinction between ethnic and religious Jews.
And I agree.