About a week ago, I received notice from from a friend of mine about an event that took place within the last two weeks in Austria. Shock lead to worry and to fear for many of my people, especially those who do not have a personal relationship with Yeshua the Messiah. Here is a portion of the article (Full article here)
A hotel in Austria has refused a request by a Jewish family of seven from Vienna to lodge. The hotel owner told the family by email that the room was available, but she did not want to host Jewish guests because of “bad experiences in the past.” The incident occurred at the Haus Sonnenhof apartment hotel in the village of Serfaus.
A family was denied the right to rent a hotel room in an Austrian resort simply because they are Jewish. While this is not the norm and this has raised many concerns in the community, I wouldn’t be surprised if more businesses follow suit, especially if all the hotel receives is a symbolic slap on the hand.
One wonders what the hotel owners meant by “bad experiences in the past.”? If I remember history, the only bad experience coming from Austria in the past was to be a Jew!
But frankly, what are we to expect from a world that invites Ahmadinejad to be a keynote speaker in Lausanne, Switzerland for the Durban II “anti-racism” world conference?
So, it appears that the venom of anti-Semitism continues to be spewed on Israel and the Jewish People, while most of the world looks the other way.
Let US not be guilty of looking the other way!
Zakhor
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