Blatant Antisemitism At Aparthaus Paradies Hotel in Switzerland

This would almost be hard to believe if it wasn’t, given the increasing Jew hatred we are seeing across the globe.

Photo: Channel 2

A hotel in the Swiss tourist town of Arosa was documented by a Haredi Israeli family positing signs singling out Jews throughout the facility, Israel’s Channel 2 reported Monday.

The hotel, Aparthaus Paradies, received good recommendations online, however upon arriving, the family told Channel 2, they encountered several signs they considered antisemitic.

“To our Jewish Guests: Please take a shower before you go swimming and although after swimming. If you break the rules, I’m forced to cloes the swimming pool for you. Thank you for understanding: Ruth Thomann. [sic]”one of the signs said.

Another sign said “To our Jewish guests: You are allowed to approach the fridge between the hours: 10.00-11.00 in the morning and 16.30-17.30 in the evening. I hope you understand that our team does not like to be disturbed every time.”

The father of the family in an interview with Channel 2 said, “We told her we are Jews and she said that many Jews arrive during this period and gave us everything we need for the baby,” adding that she was nice when the family arrived.

“No-one addressed her because we didn’t want to start a confrontation,” the father added. He noted that there were several Jewish guests staying at the hotel, mostly from the UK, US and Belgium.

Here is the hotel’s website. The name Ruth Thomann does appear at the very bottom, which I realize is not definitive proof she was behind the signs.

Which is why I decided to call the hotel’s number. And after getting the busy signal a few times, a woman (Ruth) answered.

When I asked if she speaks English, she said yes, and started explaining herself immediately – clearly she has been contacted by many others about this.

Her excuse for the signs? Some Jewish people did not shower before swimming.

When I asked why she singled out Jews and did not just place generic signs for all guests, she did not seem to have an adequate answer. She repeatedly said “My Jewish guests are very happy.”

The entire conversation she was very polite to me, despite my questions. When I got off the phone with her, I actually felt like I had to take a shower.

In my opinion, this woman is prejudiced against Jews, but is so out of touch with reality*, does not even realize what she did was highly offensive – and she still wants Jewish customers!

Update: Elsewhere it is being reported that she has now admitted she “used the wrong words.” She did not admit this to me in our phone call.

*The hotel is not even on Facebook, an almost must for any business these days, reinforcing my opinion that Ruth Thomann is really out of touch with the world

35 thoughts on “Blatant Antisemitism At Aparthaus Paradies Hotel in Switzerland”

      1. Exactly. He doesn’t hate them. He just doesn’t think they are the same as white people. That sort of racism is very hard to break, because it’s almost inborn.

        1. Doesn’t mean she is Christian. Sign could have been hung equally as well by a Muslim proprietor.

          Muslims consider Jews impure.

          1. She may not be Christian, just an ingrained European thing. There must still be people around who actually believe that Jews are different sort of species. It’s not a religion thing either. I think the shower thing derives from the fact that Jews had mikvahs and someone started a rumour that they can’t go to the public bath houses with the goyim. Or maybe they weren’t allowed to go to the bath houses. Or it may be that when Antisemitism was on the rise, Jews wouldn’t go to public pools or showers to hide the fact that they were circumsized. I suspect a Muslim in Europe would be less likely to be this blatant. Or alternatively, a Muslim would just say “no Jews allowed”. Also, a Muslim would not regard the impure state of Jews as something that can be washed off in a shower.

      2. Oh, yes. I’ve had people say all sorts of things to my face, because they see a white person, & not a Jew. &when they don;t bat an eyelash when you correct them – but I always thought they were in the minority. Sigh.

        1. Funny how anti-Semitism works. If people see you dress and act a certain way, they make assumptions about you.

          When you tell them you’re a Jew, watch them change!

  1. January - Selaphiel

    I don’t buy her excuse for the signs. I’m Christian and I consider the Jewish people my Brothers & Sisters. Her signs offend me. If I walked into any place that had those signs up, I would walk back out after telling them why I was leaving.

  2. Lol. European Antisemitism is almost refreshing in its blunt honesty. At least she isn’t anti-Zionist. She genuinely likes her Jewish guests. Jews are very nice. They are all rich and successful. They control all the world banks. They control the media and all the world money. Everyone knows that. They don’t trash the rooms and they pay their bill. And if you add on extra charges, the Jews pay them too. They don’t kill a Christian child to drink their blood at Easter time, anymore. That’s one of the vicious rumours that people who are Antisemites believe. This lady thinks it’s a ridiculous story. But it is true that Jews don’t like to shower, like normal European people. Everyone knows that. Sheesh!
    (Yes, people, sarcasm/ satire.)

    https://sites.google.com/site/alexandermatlin/my-stories/stories-in-english/they-control-the-world-s-money

  3. I’m also offended by the way she massacred the English language. If you’re gonna write a hate note at least spell it right

    1. The worst Jews are hook-nosed, leering Jews wearing 18th Century garb. Why do people react so negatively towards them. What have they done?

  4. This really may be grasping for straws in her defense, but I wonder: when she says “jews” I wonder if she really means Haredim, like the family that reported this incident. Let’s say that with the black coats and extra garb, during the summer time Haredim tend to have strong body odor. And then let’s say that they don’t shower before getting into the pool. If she experienced that a few times, That could put her into the category of “obtuse” rather than blatantly “racist.”

    Not sure about the fridge thing though.

    1. Would she have posted the same sign about Blacks or Muslims? I doubt it.

      If the family wasn’t Haredi, how she would know they were Jewish? My appearance FWIW, is Aryan.

    2. I suspect your theory is probably on the money. The fridge thing might make sense – they may have put containers with kosher food in the hotel’s fridge but the hotel may have a rule that a staff member needs to get it for them.

      However, that’s still no reason to single Jews out. There is no reason she could not have put “all people need to shower…..”. The English as a second language is a furfy. I am originally from Russia, and I often speak to Russian and Ukrainian people, with poor command of English. There is no way that this sign translated to Russian sounds any less antisemitic than in English.

  5. The Swiss sell hundreds of millions a year in advanced Euro weaponry to Islam.

    Australia, also just had an antisemitic incident, where using ancient Sharia/Catholic style law, Jews can’t build new houses of worship in Sydney.

    1. Oh they can. They just cannot build a synagogue higher than a mosque.

      The more things change, the more they remain the same.

  6. Notice too the “Jewish” antisemitism in half the comments on this pro Israel blog. Half these POS said if the Jews are the meaningless self hating word “Haredim” ethnic racism against them is valid. This is racism and she should be closed down, she knew what she was doing because if she wasn’t a racist idiot she would have just put up a sign that EVERYONE must shower.

    1. I agree with you. People look down on Haredi Jews like there is something wrong with their dressing and appearing different.

      When it comes to multiculturalism, Jews need not apply.

      1. Gabriel Martindale

        “This is racism and she should be closed down, she knew what she was
        doing because if she wasn’t a racist idiot she would have just put up a
        sign that EVERYONE must shower.”

        And if the police weren’t racist idiots they would not stop and search blacks more than everyone else.

        And if Elal weren’t racist idiots they would stop giving special scrutiny to Muslims.

        And if American border enforcement weren’t racist idiots they wouldn’t supsect Hispanics of being illegal present more than anyone else.

        Leftism is leftism. It’s always stupid, but sometimes it’s more than stupid, it’s actually insane.

  7. I used to live in Switzerland, until I made Aliyah last year. This sort of thing has become increasingly more common over the past few years in the land of chocolate, cheese and ski-lifts, although I have not seen something as that blatant as that since Easter 2015.

  8. This is how it starts.

    I’ve posted the iconic image of WWII photographer John Heartfield (www.johnheartfield.com) here, to remind us of the fundamental truth of Georges Santayana’s famous quote “Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.”

    I’ve just read news reports of a VERY disturbing story out of Switzerland (the land famous for chocolate, cuckoo clocks and neutrality) where in a hotel in the tourist town of Arosa, the management posted a sign singling out Jewish customers, demanding that they take a shower before using the pool, and another prohibiting them from having access to the refrigerator between specific hours.

    A reporter interviewed the hotel owner (who’s name was on the sign) and she freely admitted to posting the notices. When asked why she put up the signs, she said that “some Jewish people did not shower before swimming.” When asked why she chose to single out Jews, she didn’t have an answer.

    This is how it starts.

    The poison that spread across Europe, courtesy of Adolf Hitler has never really gone away. It burns bright in the hearts of far too many in the Middle East, and has recently spread again across Europe (ironically, in conjunction with the dramatic influx of aliens from Muslim countries).

    Hatred of ANY ethnic group, simply because they are different, is EVIL. Krystallnacht and the Holocaust didn’t happen all of a sudden. This kind of systematic racism, bigotry, hatred, and oppression started small. It starts with things like making different rules for Jews. That kind of casual bias is something that spreads like a cancer. First it’s different rules for Jews. Then it’s prohibitions. Next, it’s just a hop, skip, and rhetorical jump to full-blown oppression, segregation, and discrimination.

    What keeps me shaking my head is the constant drumbeat of persecution claims from some in the Muslim faith. They claim that the very presence of pork in restaurants is persecution. (Orthodox Jews don’t eat pork, either. But they don’t go around demanding it be taken off the menu.) I’ve heard Muslims make accommodation demands, claiming that if businesses don’t allow Muslim women to wear burkkas, they are experiencing discrimination. Or the story out of Irving, Texas, where a Muslim student was singled out for having brought his “invention” to school – a briefcase with a modified digital clock inside, made to resemble a bomb. They claim discrimination. They are wrong. Discrimination is when you’re told you can’t eat with everyone else, because you’re “unclean.” Or you can’t buy a home in a given neighborhood, because they “don’t want your kind” living around them. Or when you’re forced onto a rail car with only the clothes on your back and taken to a camp where you’re starved, beaten, and ultimately murdered, en masse. THAT’S persecution.

    The irony here is that we’ve seen this all before. Ask anyone alive during WWII. They’ve seen it. The horrors of the German death camps. The mass graves. The gas chambers. Think it can’t happen again? You’re deluding yourselves. And if we – as human beings – don’t stand up NOW and put a stop to this, it will happen again.

    This is how it starts.

    Niemals Weider.

    https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/4201cf7ab721e5fe3b0bd5b28759472567c227865d0fbfabff794239c2170ad1.jpg

  9. Gabriel Martindale

    I generally like your blog, especially because you do good work trying to help ashkenazi Jews overcome their cultural PTSD and stop having paranoid and vindictive feelings towards white gentiles who try to stand up for themselves, e.g. Tommy Robinson.

    However, in this case, you need to do some work on yourself.

    1) Whether or not Hareidim have bad personal hygiene (I take the bus every day through Meah Shearim every day so I have my own opinions on this matter) is moot. What is pertinent is that most Hareidim (BTs excluded) habitually and chronically ignore rules that made to ensure that public places are kept clean and tidy for everyone. Some people theorize that this is is related tho their chauvinistic theologies about everyone, Jew or non Jew, who is not like them. From personal experience, I believe it has more to do with the fact that they are basically chavs with funny hats. Doesn’t really matter: anyone who walks around a Haredi neighborhood and sees double parked cars, litter everywhere, and the whole place basically looking like a slum knows what I mean.
    2) If a sign is already up addressed to all customers, it is entirely proper and correct to address a second sign only to the group of customers who are breaking the rule. If you disagree you are a just an SJW. If it ‘offends’ you to see a sign addressed to Jews telling them to behave like a mentsch then you should take that as an opportunity to give your fellow Jews a well-needed telling off.
    3) This woman has had her livelihood ruined. This is sick any way you cut it and makes the Jewish people look to any dispassionate observer like nasty, petty, vindictive people. It is up to Jews who are not nasty, petty, vindictive people to raise their voice and say not in my name.
    4) In case you haven’t noticed, the global Left has us in their sights. If you think they can’t destroy us you are wrong. They destroyed Rhodesia, they destroyed South Africa, and they are well on their way to destroying Europe and the U.S. If we have any hope of survival, it is by getting on with conservative white people who are the fellow victims of Leftism, not by gleefully joining internet SJW lynch mobs because someone was not 100% PC in her dealings with obnoxious members of our people.

      1. Gabriel Martindale

        Since I use my real name to comment, you can verify for yourself who I am, but even if I was an imposter, either Jews will learn to respond appropriately to constructive criticism or they will lose what few friends they have and justifiably so.

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