{"id":5916,"date":"2009-04-06T08:01:18","date_gmt":"2009-04-06T16:01:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/?p=5916"},"modified":"2009-04-06T08:01:18","modified_gmt":"2009-04-06T16:01:18","slug":"arab-professor-says-booted-from-eatery-over-bartenders-racist-t-shirt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/2009\/04\/arab-professor-says-booted-from-eatery-over-bartenders-racist-t-shirt\/","title":{"rendered":"Arab professor says booted from eatery over bartender&#8217;s &#8216;racist&#8217; T-shirt"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Haaretz: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/hasen\/spages\/1076663.html\">Arab professor says booted from eatery over bartender&#8217;s &#8216;racist&#8217; T-shirt<\/a><\/p>\n<p>An Arab psychology professor at the University of Haifa said Sunday he was booted out of a restaurant over the weekend after complaining that the bartender was wearing a shirt advocating killing Palestinian children.<\/p>\n<p>Restaurant owner Khaled Hajaj, who is also Arab, said he did not kick out Professor Ramzi Suleiman, though he did tell him he didn&#8217;t care if Suleiman took his money to a different restaurant.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It hurts my feelings and the feelings of Arab customers,&#8221; said Suleiman. &#8220;I&#8217;m not willing to accept such shirts. It&#8217;s like the reaction of Jews who see people wearing shirts with a cross.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The bartender at the Haifa restaurant was wearing a shirt with a drawing of a rifle sight and the words, in Hebrew, &#8220;Institution for special-ed children.&#8221; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Haaretz: Arab professor says booted from eatery over bartender&#8217;s &#8216;racist&#8217; T-shirt An Arab psychology professor at the University of Haifa said Sunday he was booted out of a restaurant over the weekend after complaining that the bartender was wearing a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/2009\/04\/arab-professor-says-booted-from-eatery-over-bartenders-racist-t-shirt\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[211],"tags":[2517,109],"class_list":["post-5916","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-faculty","tag-israel","tag-racism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5916","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5916"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5916\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5917,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5916\/revisions\/5917"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5916"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5916"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5916"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}