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Kasol, in Himachal Pradesh, is an attractive tourist spot for backpackers, trekkers and nature lovers. It is also home to a large population of Israeli. Visitors here usually find internet cafes, body piercing parlours, reggae bars with signage in Hebrew.
Most of them do not have a restricted access, but one such discriminating Israeli restaurant has fallen into trouble for disallowing Indians and serving only foreigners.
According to a post on Facebook by Stefan Kaye, the owner of Free Kasol, an Indian himself, allegedly refused to give the writer's Indian friend a menu claiming it was a 'members only' cafe. Kaye was, however, given the menu for his white looks.
“I confronted the owner and accused him of blatant discrimination, he then tried to shoo me out and claimed loudly "it is my cafe and can do what I want!," Kaye said in his post on Facebook that’s gone viral.
Here’s the post by Stefan Kaye:
This restaurant in Kasol is called 'Free Kasol'. The freak asshole who runs it refuses to serve Indians. I walked in there with Ritika yesterday afternoon. They would not give her a menu claiming it was a 'members only' cafe. The owner did not realise we were together, I then asked for the menu and he duly obliged. I pulled him up about his claim that it was members only and he decided to stick to this yarn. Conversation went like this. "Why did you give me the menu then?" I asked him. "Because you asked to see it". "So once I had looked at it I would not have been able to place an order?" "That's right" he answered. Obviously we were not convinced by the owner's explanation so asked a few puzzled looking diners if they had to show a membership card to walk into this cafe. Of course none of them had to do any such thing. I confronted the owner and accused him of blatant discrimination, he then tried to shoo me out and claimed loudly "it is my cafe and can do what I want!" We weren't prepared to leave under these circumstances and made it clear to the exclusively white and predominantly Israeli clientele that the owner was operating a form of apartheid in his cafe. They continued supping tea and eating schnitzels.
It transpired that the owner is in fact Indian and has visited Israel every year for the past 15 years. His explanation for excluding a customer based purely on her ethnicity was that he 'was in a bad mood'.
Most of them do not have a restricted access, but one such discriminating Israeli restaurant has fallen into trouble for disallowing Indians and serving only foreigners.
According to a post on Facebook by Stefan Kaye, the owner of Free Kasol, an Indian himself, allegedly refused to give the writer's Indian friend a menu claiming it was a 'members only' cafe. Kaye was, however, given the menu for his white looks.
“I confronted the owner and accused him of blatant discrimination, he then tried to shoo me out and claimed loudly "it is my cafe and can do what I want!," Kaye said in his post on Facebook that’s gone viral.
Here’s the post by Stefan Kaye:
This restaurant in Kasol is called 'Free Kasol'. The freak asshole who runs it refuses to serve Indians. I walked in there with Ritika yesterday afternoon. They would not give her a menu claiming it was a 'members only' cafe. The owner did not realise we were together, I then asked for the menu and he duly obliged. I pulled him up about his claim that it was members only and he decided to stick to this yarn. Conversation went like this. "Why did you give me the menu then?" I asked him. "Because you asked to see it". "So once I had looked at it I would not have been able to place an order?" "That's right" he answered. Obviously we were not convinced by the owner's explanation so asked a few puzzled looking diners if they had to show a membership card to walk into this cafe. Of course none of them had to do any such thing. I confronted the owner and accused him of blatant discrimination, he then tried to shoo me out and claimed loudly "it is my cafe and can do what I want!" We weren't prepared to leave under these circumstances and made it clear to the exclusively white and predominantly Israeli clientele that the owner was operating a form of apartheid in his cafe. They continued supping tea and eating schnitzels.
It transpired that the owner is in fact Indian and has visited Israel every year for the past 15 years. His explanation for excluding a customer based purely on her ethnicity was that he 'was in a bad mood'.
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