Arab professor 'kicked out of eatery over bartender's racist T-shirt'
By Yoav Stern, Haaretz Correspondent
An Arab psychology professor at the University of Haifa said Sunday he was booted out of a restaurant over the weekend after complaining that the bartender was wearing a shirt advocating killing Palestinian children.
Restaurant owner Khaled Hajaj, who is also Arab, said he did not kick out Professor Ramzi Suleiman, though he did tell him he didn't care if Suleiman took his money to a different restaurant.
...The bartender at the Haifa restaurant was wearing a shirt with a drawing of a rifle sight and the words, in Hebrew, "Institution for special-ed children."
Suleiman demanded the bartender change his shirt, saying it advocated killing Palestinian children...Suleiman and Hajaj argued over the bartender's shirt in front of about 20 other diners, some of whom left because of the disturbance. Suleiman said Hajaj told him, "If you're Palestinian, go to Palestine."
Hajaj said he condemns "all killing of any kind."
"Arabs and Jews work in the restaurant, and it serves Jews and Arabs, whites and blacks, and has never closed the door in anyone's face," he said.
Hajaj said the bartender had never served in the army and was unaware of the message his shirt conveyed. As a result of the incident, the bartender is no longer working at the restaurant.
Well, I'm guessing that if "the bartender had never served in the army and was unaware of the message his shirt conveyed", he was Arab (I doubt he was ultra-orthodox).
And so, you have a situation where non-Jews are wearing supposedly 'Jewish' fashion yet not having the faintest idea of its message and, in addition, an Arab kicks out an Arab over anti-Pal. messages but at the end of the day, probably because of media interest, the poor Arab who can't read Hebrew well enough has lost his job because of the behavior of an Arab professor.
Go figure it out.
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