Posted on 08/01/2012 9:00:36 AM PDT by Milagros
Pakistani Owner of Swanky Santa Monica Hotel: "Get the [expletive] Jews out of my Pool" By: Lori Lowenthal Marcus Published: July 30th, 2012 Latest update: July 31st, 2012
An upscale hotel on a Santa Monica, California, beach is an odd place to be singled out from a crowd and removed because you are Jewish, but that's what happened to 18 young professionals who are telling their story to a jury in a discrimination trial taking place in Santa Monica Superior Court this week.
Ari Ryan is the grandson of a Ukranian Jew who lost most of his family in the Holocaust and narrowly escaped death at the hands of the Nazis. Ryan's grandfather moved to Israel in 1942 and served as a captain in the Israel Defense Forces.
Seventy years later Ryan says he got a small taste of what his grandfather lived through, but rather than in the forests of the Ukraine, it took place at an upscale hotel in Santa Monica. Ryan and more than a dozen others have brought a lawsuit alleging anti-Semitic discrimination against them by a multi-millionaire Muslim American hotel owner.
Two years ago Ryan and other twenty- and thirty-something Jews planned to raise money to send children of fallen IDF soldiers to camp with a charity event at the Hotel Shangri-La in Santa Monica, California.
On the morning of July 11, 2010, Ryan and others arrived at the hotel and began setting up Friends of the IDF banners, literature and piles of shirts for the event guests.
But the event was aborted after, according to one employee's sworn testimony, the hotel's owner told staff members, "Get the [expletive deleted] Jews out of my pool." Then the hotel security and other employees began removing the materials and ordering the guests to leave.
Ryan said, "Anyone wearing a blue wristband," which identified them as being with the Friends of the IDF, "was asked to get out of the swimming pool and the hot tub." In fact, no one who was identifiable as Jewish was so much as "allowed to dip their feet in the water."
Tehmina (Tamie) Adaya, a Pakistani-American Muslim, is the owner of the Shangri-La. Her father, Ahmad Adaya, was a founding partner of the California real estate company IDS Real Estate Group. He also was a founder and benefactor of the New Horizon School for Muslim religious education in Southern California.
The father bought the Shangri-La Hotel in the 1980‘s and the daughter took it over in 2004, investing $30 million to renovate the property into a design award-winning opulent destination. In addition to the hotel, Adaya runs an upscale artist collective called the Crown Jewels which she blogs about at her site "Culture Shock to Culture Architect."
In the cross-complaint she initially filed, Adaya claimed Ryan and his friends were trespassing on the Shangri-La property and became unruly.
"Not so," said James Turken, managing partner of the California office of the DC-based law firm Dickstein, Shapiro, attorney for the plaintiffs. He explained that Adaya withdrew her complaint after he interviewed her, under oath, and she was unable to substantiate any of the allegations she had made.
Turken told The Jewish Press that witnesses will testify that, in addition to cursing the Jews and yelling at her staff to remove them from the pool, Adaya was heard saying, "my family will disown me," and that her "investors will be furious," if the plaintiffs remained on site.
The defense claims there was no discrimination and that, instead, the promoters of the event had failed to properly schedule the event with the hotel, and therefore they were trespassing.
According to Turken, however, all the necessary arrangements had been made in advance, as evidenced by the initial assistance provided by the Shangri-La employees, which included putting up a rope and stanchions and a check-in table. What's more, he said, the day before the event "the head of hotel security gave a briefing to the staff to prepare them for the crowd of 150 that were expected to attend."
The removal from the pool of Jews who were wearing Jewish-identified wristbands evokes a similar selection process of seventy years ago. Ryan, recalling his grandfather's legacy, said "I felt the weight of standing up to what he had to live through."
The plaintiffs are seeking $ 1 million from Adaya and the Shangri-La Hotel for emotional distress, attorneys' fees and other statutory damages. http://www.jewishpress.com/news/pakistani-owner-of-swanky-santa-monica-hotel-get-the-expletive-jews-out-of-my-pool/2012/07/30/
Oh yeah! I’ll leave your pool! Oops. My pet pig Porky doesn’t want to leave though!
$1 million? They are going cheap.
I figured by the time they were done there’d be a marquee sign out front: “Star of David Hotel-Under New Management”
If the “jews” were members of the LGBT, then CNN and MSNBC would have 24/7 coverage of this.
Thsi guy sounds like the Paki equivalent of Lester Maddox.
Send this miserable POS back to his miserable POS country!
(and all who come here with similar hostile attitudes, they do NOT belong in America and we haven’t even begin to experience the problems they are bringing to us here!)
Did Ari just show up with all this paraphenalia or did he rent out the pool area for the event?
The piece makes it sound as those these folks showed up out of nowhere, and then Mr. Paki went wild.
“Jews out of the pool.” Nice. Real nice.
Strips of bacon
rolled and toothpicked
Slingshot
Over the fence
and into the pool
Sharia pool rules in effect.
I didn’t know Hillary owned a hotel.
In fact it is lawful for a Jew to have a pet pig just as it is lawful for a Jew to have a pet dog. It isn't usual but then pigs as pets are not common among non-Jews either
This is not going to be a popular viewpoint, but the Bill of Rights states that we shall have freedom of association. No matter how distasteful it is to most folks, a private business should not be forced to hire anyone or serve any person it chooses not to hire or serve.
The great free market economists agree on this one. Discrimination always comes at a cost, and most businesses would do business with anyone whose money is green. It is government that destroys equality of opportunity. It was the Nazi government that forced people to stop engaging in commerce with Jews, much as our government is trying to stop people doing business with Chick Fil A.
If this hateful Muslim chooses to discriminate against Jews, then the market will take care of that. His hotel will suffer for it. Allowing government to force association when it comes to private enterprises is a slippery slope.
Islamist folk frequently shoot their mouths off before engaging their (limited) brains. It appears to be a cultural short-coming. Yet, under examination "under oath" they tend to buckle and withdraw their charges. For example, from the article:
According to Turken, however, all the necessary arrangements had been made in advance, as evidenced by the initial assistance provided by the Shangri-La employees, which included putting up a rope and stanchions and a check-in table. What's more, he said, the day before the event "the head of hotel security gave a briefing to the staff to prepare them for the crowd of 150 that were expected to attend."
Let’s test your theory. Put a “NO COLOREDS” sign in the window of your business and tell us how it turns out.
The lead story in every MSM network for the entire week would be "Racism in America -- Christians, conservatives and Romney voters are still intolerant."
I don’t see why they are concerned, they seem to have no problem supporting Barack and Hillary. If they want to keep supporting people who will destroy them, they might as well get used to it.
Well, exactly. If someone wants to do that, it should be their right. I’m not saying it is moral or ethical, but in a free country, it should not be illegal.
Do you know what would happen to that business? First, it would not have any blacks as customers, or probably even as suppliers, and it would offend most people of any race. It would probably go out of business. It was the Jim Crow laws in the South that hurt blacks. Government forced blacks to sit at the back of the bus. If businesses had been left to make their own decisions, race discrimination would have ended much sooner. Free commerce tears down barriers.
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