Phuket probes Israeli restaurant over refused Thai service claims

4 hours ago, blaze master said:

So thai business puts up signs no Israeli allowed and refuse service....... Perfectly normal

Israelis do the same in return.....Investigations.

Talk about hypocrites.

Well , it is their country . Their country their rules. Racism and hypocrites exist everywhere. Israelis owned establishments are lucky that the militant Muslims in the south did not turn their attention to the Islamic threat.

3 hours ago, stevenl said:

Not smart to draw attention this way. This won't end well for the guy.

And rightly so. They are earning their reputation around the world. Will Thailand be the 110th country to disavow them?

46 minutes ago, Sato said:

I think laws must be obeyed by all nationalities and the law must apply equally to everyone.

No....The owner of an establishment, be it a restaurant, zoo, or event venue, has the right to give instructions and can decide who is admitted and who is not! This is regulated by law, and nothing else!

"Khetarat said businesses must serve customers equally regardless of nationality. He warned against venues operating exclusively for foreign clients."

I agree 100%. These foreign businesses must be shut down and owners fined, detained and deported with a life time ban. These people consider their culture to be superior to everyone else and above the law. These people have no respect for Thai laws and culture.

1 minute ago, riverhigh said:

"Khetarat said businesses must serve customers equally regardless of nationality.

So are Chabad houses going to get banned then?

I've never seen them serving Iranians.

Were they genuine Thai diners just looking for a feed or where they Thai Muslims wearing Keffiyehs and shouting political slogans ?

Were they refused entry for being Thas, or were they refused entry for causing a disturbance ?

“Officials are reviewing the restaurant's ownership arrangements, management practices and supporting documents. They will assess whether it is operating legally, including whether Thai nationals may have been used as nominees to conceal foreign control.”

2 hours ago, khunjeff said:

What does this have to do with the question of whether they're barring Thais from entry?

Nothing.

It’s suspected illegal activity that was discovered whilst investigating the complaint of Thais being barred entry.

15 minutes ago, Nick Carter icp said:

Were they genuine Thai diners just looking for a feed or where they Thai Muslims wearing Keffiyehs and shouting political slogans ?

Were they refused entry for being Thas, or were they refused entry for causing a disturbance ?

Hard to say.

None of that was mentioned in the report, so probably not. Don’t you think?

1 hour ago, Sato said:

not in the eyes of an anti-Semite

What a strange post.

The issue is a legal one, not religious.

People who keep conflating the two simply add to a lot of the stupid conflict that’s flying around.

1 hour ago, Cameroni said:

True enough, except there' s no such thing as "Israeli cuisine".

Rugelach - stolen from the Austrians

Bagel - stolen from the Austrians

Gefilte Fish - stolen from the Germans

Falafel - stolen from the Egyptians

Matzah balls - stolen from the Germans

Latkes - a massive fraud and copied from the German Reibekuchen.

You're quite ignorant.

You're confusing Ashkenazi Jewish food with Israeli.

Of your hilariously wrong list only falafel will be found at Israelli food restaurants.

Edited 1 hour ago1 hr by Jingthing

41 minutes ago, Cameroni said:

So are Chabad houses going to get banned then?

I've never seen them serving Iranians.

Sounds as if you'd love to see a terrorist attacks on Chabad.

1 minute ago, wensiensheng said:

What a strange post.

The issue is a legal one, not religious.

People who keep conflating the two simply add to a lot of the stupid conflict that’s flying around.

The dispute 'Restaurant not letting in Thai people' is a legal one but not the many antisemitic comments in this forum. My comment regarding antisemitism was beceause of those comments.

Edited 1 hour ago1 hr by Sato

4 minutes ago, wensiensheng said:

What a strange post.

The issue is a legal one, not religious.

People who keep conflating the two simply add to a lot of the stupid conflict that’s flying around.

You misunderstood .

The anti semite claim was directed a poster , you seem to have mistakenly thought it was aimed at the people in the story

1 hour ago, Cameroni said:

Bagel - stolen from the Austrians

Incorrect , Israel "stole " the bagel from Polish Jews

Bagels originated in the Jewish communities of 17th-century Poland. The earliest written record of the bread appears in the 1610 community regulations of Kraków, Poland, where they were given as a gift to women after childbirth

1 hour ago, Cameroni said:

True enough, except there' s no such thing as "Israeli cuisine".

Matzah balls - stolen from the Germans

Latkes - a massive fraud and copied from the German Reibekuchen.

Matzah balls or matzo balls are Ashkenazi Jewish soup morsels made from a mixture of...........................

Only people that know nothing about Israel don't know the difference between Ashkenazi Jewish food and Israeli food.

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1 hour ago, Jingthing said:

You're quite ignorant.

You're confusing Ashkenazi Jewish food with Israeli.

Of your hilariously wrong list only falafel will be found at Israelli food restaurants.

Actually, looks like you're woefully ignorant of Israeli cuisine. In fact Ashkenazi cuisine provided the early institutional foundation of Israeli food, introducing iconic dishes like schnitzel, matzo ball soup, latkes and kugel that remain national staples today.

Like Ashkenazi cuisine, Israeli cuisine is massively derivative, there is really nothing that originated from Israel. Apart from some toasted rice substitute that nobody likes.

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3 minutes ago, Cameroni said:

Like Ashkenazi cuisine, Israeli cuisine is massively derivative, there is really nothing that originated from Israel. Apart from some toasted rice substitute that nobody likes.

Sabich: An iconic pita sandwich stuffed with fried eggplant, hard-boiled eggs, tahini, and amba. It was invented in the 1960s in Ramat Gan, Israel, by Iraqi-Jewish immigrant Sabich Tzvi Halabi.

Jerusalem Mixed Grill (Me'orav Yerushalmi): A street food dish of mixed chicken meats (hearts, spleens, liver, and bits of lamb) cooked on a flat-top grill with local spices. It was created in the 1960s at open-air market stalls in Jerusalem

Ptitim.Toasted pasta shaped like tiny pearls, invented during the 1950s austerity period in Israel when rice was scarce and a wheat-based substitute was manufactured.

Bisli: A crunchy, savory wheat snack launched by Osem in the 1970s, coming in unique local flavors like barbecue, pizza, and grill.

1 hour ago, Sato said:

The dispute 'Restaurant not letting in Thai people' is a legal one but not the many antisemitic comments in this forum. My comment regarding antisemitism was beceause of those comments.

Not aimed at you in particular, but I would suggest the more focus on the issue at hand and less on all the other stuff, the better.

2 minutes ago, Cameroni said:

Actually, looks like you're woefully ignorant of Israeli cuisine. In fact Ashkenazi cuisine provided the early institutional foundation of Israeli food, introducing iconic dishes like schnitzel, matzo ball soup, latkes and kugel that remain national staples today.

Like Ashkenazi cuisine, Israeli cuisine is massively derivative, there is really nothing that originated from Israel. Apart from some toasted rice substitute that nobody likes.

You obviously really hate Jews.

ALL cuisines are derivative!

Duh.

What would Thai food be without chilies?

What would Italian food be without tomatoes?

European food in general without potatoes?

From the Americas.

Speaking of Thai, consider how many dishes are variations of Chinese food.

You're right about schnitzel which in Israel is chicken..

That is European origin of course and is a staple especially for kids.

In Israel they bring out the matzoh one time a year for Passover so then you would find matzoh ball soup.

In the Ashkenazi part of the diaspora you find matzoh all year, and also the soup.

Katz's deli is in NYC not Israel.

Honestly Israeli food is not my favorite.

Neither is Ashkenazi Jewish food.

Not even close.

But I'm sick and tired of Israel demonizers getting dismissive about everything Israeli.

I'm really surprised you didn't accuse the Jews of "stealing" hummus just like they steal land.

Did you forget that trope?

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6 hours ago, jacko45k said:

But we are in Thailand which shifts the balance!

Not really. Either the owner has the right to serve or not to serve whoever they want or they have to serve everyone equally. And just to clarify, I’m so not a fan of Zionism, but fair is fair.

1 hour ago, Nick Carter icp said:

You misunderstood .

The anti semite claim was directed a poster , you seem to have mistakenly thought it was aimed at the people in the story

Oh, I see.

To be honest, I don’t see any religious issue here at all. And extrapolating out a local legal issue as to whether a restaurant has the right to refuse service based on nationality, into an attempt to resolve a global ethnic dispute, seems an exercise in futility to me.

Deal with the local issue on legal grounds and the super divisive debate on global issues goes away. At least as far as this thread goes.

7 hours ago, blaze master said:

So thai business puts up signs no Israeli allowed and refuse service....... Perfectly normal

Israelis do the same in return.....Investigations.

Talk about hypocrites.

I really hate to say this, but I have to agree. Either the owners has the right to decide whom he wants to serve, or he has to serve everyone equally.