Utah bar owner Michael Valentine
Posted on 03/07/2024 9:40:34 AM PST by thegagline
A newly opened bar in Salt Lake City is under scrutiny by state officials after announcing on social media that it would implement a “no Zionists allowed” policy. “As many are, we are horrified by the ongoing genocide in Gaza and are even more horrified to see so many Americans ignore and rationalize ethnic cleansing. That is why we are pleased to announce we are banning all zionists forever from our establishments,” the Weathered Waves bar posted on Instagram.
“Zionism is hate speech. It is white supremacy and has nothing to do with the beautiful Jewish faith,” the bar said. Its owner, former mayoral candidate Michael Valentine, responded to backlash by stressing that “we are banning zionists, not Jews.”
But many accused the bar of thinly veiled antisemitism, arguing that the term “Zionist” could be used against any Jewish person who supports their homeland. Amid growing outrage this week, the Utah Department of Alcoholic Beverage Services, which had just given the bar its license on Feb. 29, turned to the state Attorney General’s Office requesting “an investigation on whether the business is violating discrimination laws,” the department said in a statement Wednesday.
It said the department is also reviewing its own “legal options for responding to discrimination at DABS licensed establishments.”
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Announce it now, wherever you go! Do you have a pro-Israel bumper sticker on your car? House? T-Shirt? Anything? They time for all of us to speak out is NOW!
That criteria cuts both ways.
What next, closing Zion Nat’l park?
Or the citizens of Zion, Illinois.
Of course they can’t tell, it more virtual signaling.
so bakers and florists and photographers can now post signs on their businesses that say “No LGBTQ” then?
Bake the cake!
They are on the honor system.
They love Jews, but hate Zionists?
What does that even mean?
I think it means they think they’re clever in trying (and failing) to hide their pro terrorist anti Semite agenda.
SLC is a blue city. The Progressives in town are passive aggressive.
The primaries are open to all comers, particularly to Dems making trouble.
The precincts are undergoing change from establishment to regular folks.
Mormons believe SLC is Zion, and also Jackson Co MO. Not to be confused with Jerusalem.
The idiot was able to say that with a straight face?
Make the men whip it out at the door?
There are some Hasidic Jews that embrace this sentiment.
On 1 April 1945, the British administration's statistics showed that Jewish buyers had legal ownership over approximately 5.67% of the Mandate's total land area, while state-owned domain was 46%. By the end of 1947, Jewish ownership had increased to 6.6%. This cycle of land acquisition ultimately ended when the Israeli Declaration of Independence yielded the founding of the Jewish state on 14 May 1948. Towards the end of the 19th century, the creation of the Zionist movement resulted in many European Jews immigrating to Palestine. Most land purchases between the late 1880s and the 1930s were located in the coastal plain area, including "Acre to the North and Rehovoth to the South, the Esdraelon (Jezreel) and Jordan Valleys and to the lesser extent in Galilee".
I wonder if he includes the 2.1 Million Arabs that live in Israel. They make up 21% of the population of the country.
That is one of the advantages of being a blithering idiot. He can say and do stupid things without having his face recoil in revulsion.
How about Adam Schiff? Schiff is a Jew, but is he a Zionist?
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