Gil Ofarim speaks on social media of an anti-Semitic incident in a Leipzig hotel. The musician is “speechless”.
Gil Ofarim (39) claims to have been the victim of anti-Semitic hostility. the musician reports on an incident that recently happened in a Leipzig hotel. He wanted to check in there that evening. Due to a technical defect at the reception, a long queue of hotel guests had formed, in which Ofarim was also waiting. Suddenly “one person after the other was preferred,” explains the singer.
After a long wait, he complained to the staff. The receptionist, from Ofarim “Mr. W.” called, initially claimed to just want to straighten the snake. “And then someone from the corner yells: ‘Pack your star.’ And then Mr W says: ‘Pack your star.’ And then he says, if I wrap it up now, I can check in, “continues the 39-year-old, holding his necklace with a Star of David into the camera. At the end of the clip, he is close to tears. “Really? Germany 2021,” he concludes.
He also writes about the contribution that he was “speechless”. He asks whether “we haven’t learned anything from the past”. “It is not the first time, but at some point it will be enough,” said Ofarim.
Years of struggle against anti-Semitism
As early as May 2018, Gil Ofarim reported on a TV appearance on the talk show “Hart aber fair” about anti-Semitic hostility that he had been struggling with since school days. “Swastikas on my school desk” were not uncommon, once a month there was dog poop in his mailbox at home, said the son of the Israeli singer Abi Ofarim (1937-2018) at the time. Anti-Semitism is not coming back, because none of this is new to him, but “everyday life”.
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