July 6, 2016, +972 Magazine http://972mag.com (Israel)
By Mairav Zonszein*
Hotels in
Israel are offering their Jewish clients some vacation segregation.
Staff at the
Magic Sunrise Hotel in Eilat have been making phone calls of their own volition
to Jewish clientele who have reservations this weekend to warn them that there
will be a lot of Arabs at the hotel due to the Muslim Eid el-Fitr holiday, and
offering them to cancel or push back their reservation free of charge,
according to a report on Israel’s Channel 10 Tuesday.
In one audio
recording of a conversation (Hebrew), the hotel employee can be heard
telling a client that it will be crowded due to the end of Ramadan holiday, and
that most of the clientele will be from the “migzar,” which means the
“sector” in Hebrew, a common euphemism for Israel’s large Arab minority, over
20 percent of the country’s population. The hotel employee
