Salt Lake City Bar Under Fire for Its ‘No Zionists Allowed’ Policy

Why even bring this type of attention to yourself when u literally just opened?

should’ve just laid low and have a secret policy that if someone is speaking pro-genocide rhetoric, u kick them out for disrupting your establishment if that’s really what u want to do

 

How do you distinguish? Does one have to pass some sort of test to enter the bar?

 

"No such thing as bad publicity"?

 

Discriminatory. I agree with them that the invasion of Gaza is a genocide and that genocide is bad. I also don't equate anti-Zionism with antisemitism. However, a Jew seeing this ban could reasonably conclude that they are unwelcome because of their religion and/or their race and/or their country of origin (all protected classes), even if they agree with the anti-genocide political stance. They'd have been better off just saying they oppose the genocide in Gaza, except that that wouldn't generate salacious headlines to drive traffic. I think it's lazy reasoning also to equate Zionism with this genocide, as though it were impossible to hold one and oppose the other. And I don't think I want to patronize this bar. It is in the hospitality business but wants to go out of its way to be inhospitable.

 

On the one hand, this is completely legal.

On the other hand, it's also completely stupid and so is everyone who cares.

 

People that tie their entire personality and lives to a religion are ****ing losers.

That goes for the Zionist Jews that are obsessed with being Jewish and Israel, and the radical Islamists that don't take a dump without wondering what Allah would think, and want a Caliphate.

These people have an inability to think for themselves and lack any individuality.

I am sorry but blowing yourself up in a car bomb so women have to cover their faces - or being a Jew and moving into the West Bank surrounded by hostile Arabs that live on that land - deserve the Darwin award.... the wrong sperm won, what a complete waste of life.

As for the bar, whatever - they can only serve like 2% alcohol.... if you are the type to want to go to a bar and are "woke", why are you in Salt Lake City? In fact - it is very difficult to be successful in Salt Lake City unless you are deeply entrenched in the Mormon church and are a white male that looks like Steve Kerr of Children of the Corn.

 

This would be my amateur understanding is that Zionism isn't a protected class so they could ban "Zionists". How they determine who is a Zionists would be a bigger issue as if they banned Jewish people that would be illegal. Even if they wanted to ban Jewish people on the basis that they are Zionist the CO case that said that a baker doesn't need to bake a wedding cake for an LGBT wedding might make that allowable if they can argue that Zionism is such an affront to their religious and moral values that they shouldn't be forced to cater to it.

 

Because exclusionary tactics win
If you only have a niche. . .and that niche hates THEM PEOPLE
you put up a sign saying THEM PEOPLE won't be there
then your Niche feels more comfortable being their hateful selves in your place of business

Rocket River

 

I guess IN THEORY . . . . It is no different than saying. . . NO COMMUNIST!!

Rocket River

 

It sounds problematic and likely antisemitic.

Aside from all of that, has the bar had problems with patrons coming in and talking about claiming huge swaths of land for Israel in the Middle East? It was driving away business?

 

My understanding is that bars in salt lake city are f**king weird. You can only sell alcohol to members of "private clubs", so to buy alcohol at a bar you have to pay for a membership for the night first.

At least thats how I'm told it works.

So as a "private club", these bars, I think, have more leeway and control over who comes in?

 

This is the intersection of free speech, public accommodation, legal/illegal discrimination, and how far the policy goes (signs/actions/assumptions). The legality of it would be based on the specific circumstances of those things, but yes, this is dumb.

 

"The fact that I am opening a no Zionist bar in SLC so that people will write about it is clearly explained by my 'i am opening a no Zionist bar in SLC so that people will write about it' T Shirt"

 

This was changed during the Salt Lake City Olympics. Bars in Utah now don’t require a membership.