‘Sorry, there are no Jews allowed’: Israelis denied booking at German hotel

Israeli tourists were recently denied accommodation at a hotel in southern Germany after receiving a discriminatory message through an online booking site. The message from Hotel zum Hirschen in Lam, Bavaria, stated, "Sorry, there are no Jews allowed in our hotel."

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Are we back in the 1930s?

The Israeli Consulate in Munich confirmed the authenticity of the message and shared it on social media, prompting outrage. The consulate's Consul General, Talya Lador, questioned, "Are we back in the 1930s?" The booking site Booking.com has since removed the hotel from its platform following a complaint filed by the affected tourists.

This incident highlights persistent high levels of antisemitism in Germany. A report by the German government's antisemitism watchdog recorded 2,197 anti-Jewish incidents in Berlin alone in 2025, a figure that remains more than double pre-October 7, 2023, levels. The commissioner for combating antisemitism in Hesse stated that "the threat to Jewish life is worse than at any time since the Holocaust."

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sorry, there are no Jews allowed in our hotel.

The rejection of the Israeli guests in Bavaria is the latest in a series of recent hostile incidents targeting Israeli and Jewish tourists abroad. Just weeks prior, two Jewish American women were denied entry to a Barcelona sauna for wearing Star of David necklaces, and two Israeli tourists faced verbal harassment at a hotel in California, with an employee questioning if they were "baby killers."

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The threat to Jewish life is worse than at any time since the Holocaust.