Just one day after the Grand Beach Hotel in Surfside apologized for an anti-Semitic act, it seems there was once again hate at the very same hotel.
YWN spoke to a woman who had stayed at the hotel the past few days. She had received the same apology letter – placed under her door (and every other door at the hotel) on Tuesday. Yet on Wednesday, she came across something disturbing.
The woman tells YWN that hotel staff thought she had already checked out on Wednesday morning, since she had taken most of her stuff and placed it with the staff in the lobby. She then went to spend some time outdoors, and returned to her room to wash up before checking out of the hotel.
When she returned to her room, she discovered that the few items left behind had been removed by the room service personnel who thought she had checked out. She retrieved her items from the lobby and went to her room, only to find the attached (badly drawn) swastikas on the table when she entered the room.
Clearly, this hate was perpetrated by the room service at the hotel.
Visibly shaken, the woman went to the hotel manager to let him know what she had just found. She was told that the hotel is taking this very seriously, and that the perpetrator from the first incident – where a baby mattress had swastikas scrawled on it – had been apprehended. Police have not confirmed this.
She was told that the hotel would be in touch with her.
(YWN World Headquarters – NYC)
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Apparently the “training” promised in the letter is not working very well.
This is silly. It looks like it was done by a little kid curious about that symbol, if you can even make out its similarities to a swastika at all. I would hardly call this a hate crime
For this we need to move to Kiryat Yovel
Like I wrote earlier. Were is the signature on the hotel letter? Who is apologizing? What are the compensations? If the hotel owner does not sign his name personnally what does that show?
Yungerman, it can’t be a hate crime, because it’s not a crime at all. Drawing on a mattress is vandalism, which is a crime, so it can be a hate crime. Drawing on a notepad is not a crime so it can’t be a hate crime.
It’s a terrible thing to see the signs that remind of of the atrocities which occurred to our parents and grandparents. However it’s important that we take note of the fact that we are in golus and we need to act like we are in golus by not showing off and standing out. The hate is there was there and will always be there but we can do things to avoid the trigger points. It’s no secret that we are blessed with an un measurable amount of wealth in our community which no other group among the nations especially in the US has been experiencing and therefore we have to be extremely careful not to flaunt or act in any manner which can trigger the jealousy and hate similarly to what occurred in Europe 80 years ago.
What type of staff is in this hotel? Various jobs, and various cities in Florida are very ethnically sectional (my play on the new left-wing word, intersectionality). In some places, the maids may be entirely from Central America and Mexico. In others, Creole is the dominant, and maybe only language. Then there are Cubans, Puerto Ricans, etc.
I offer one correction: ” by the room service personnel who thought she had checked out. ”
Yes, literally it is people servicing the room, but this is really housekeeping. Room Service is generally known as the waitstaff who bring in meals. So, we’re left with a housekeeper, or quite possibly, the floor’s housekeeping supervisor. Depending on the circumstances, this is the individual who investigates if you’ve checked out when you haven’t notified anyone that you have – ie turning in the key or some other affirmative action other than just leaving.
Hatesheker, I totally agree that Jews shouldn’t flaunt their wealth but it is factually incorrect that our community has an “unmeasurable amount of wealth” as you state. Most of of us are middle class struggling to pay tuition, bills, mortgages or rent, and daily living expenses. Many between us are poor, having to rely on the organizations, barely making ends meet. It’s ridiculous to lump all of us together as having “an unmeasurable of wealth”.
Milhouse
Glad you’re not my lawyer. Scribbling on a notepad is not a crime…agreed.
Scribbling swastkas on a notepad (in a room just vacated by Jews) is a crime, its called a hate crime.
It could be anyone from an anti-Semite guest to a maid who didn’t get a tip.
This hotel has cameras as well as a record anytime the door was opened.
That this would happen in a hotel across the street from The Shul makes it even worse.