Israeli hotels warn Jewish guests that Arabs will also be there
http://972mag.com/israeli-hotels-warn-jewish-guests-that-arabs-will-also-be-there/111503/
The Jewish holidays this year overlap with the Muslim holiday of Eid al-Adha, hotel reservation agents proactively inform callers without any prompting, explaining that many Palestinian citizens of Israel will also be on holiday in their hotels.
Except the hotel employees don’t dare utter the word Arabs, or even “minorities,” and certainly not Palestinians. Instead, they refer to their Arab guests as members of “hamigzar,” which means “the sector” in Hebrew, and is used in Israel to refer to the large Arab minority, which comprises over 20 percent of the country’s population.
In at least one of the recorded calls a hotel employee goes on at length, stumbling over her words in an effort not to actually utter the word Arab, as if saying “the sector” and not “Arab” makes it somehow OK.
When one caller, presumably a reporter, asks why the hotel is making the “disclosure” to potential guests, the hotel employee says, “there are people who want to know.”
Imagine if a hotel chain warned guests that there were also African Americans, Spanish Americans or Jewish Americans also staying as guests? There would be protests...and rightly so.
But I guess, IMHO, that this is business as usual in Israel.
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