Arab professor 'kicked out of eatery over bartender's racist T-shirt'

[IndianaGreen]

Yep, it's the Freeper T-shirts again.

Last update - 02:36 06/04/2009

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.

"It hurts my feelings and the feelings of Arab customers," said Suleiman. "I'm not willing to accept such shirts. It's like the reaction of Jews who see people wearing shirts with a cross." 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 - similar to T-shirts printed for Israel Defense Forces soldiers that depict violence against Palestinians, as Haaretz reported last month.

The IDF has condemned the T-shirts, which were ordered by troops and not by the army itself. The shirts include images including a child in rifle cross-hairs with the slogan, "The smaller they are, the harder it is." Another shows a pregnant woman in the cross-hairs and the words "1 Shot 2 Kills."

http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1076663.html

[GoesTo11]

1. Good for him

Those shirts are disgusting and have to be condemned.

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2. I agree on that...

The restaurant owner sounds like a moron as well. I would have thought there was some sort of law that would make an employer responsible for making sure their employees don't incite hate or wear things like that tshirt. I think there's laws like that here...

[ProgressiveProfessor]

3. The bartender "no longer works there".

Sounds like he was fired for it after the incident

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4. Yeah, it was as a result of that incident...

At least that's what the article says. Good riddance to that bartender...