{"id":65779,"date":"2026-06-18T14:18:10","date_gmt":"2026-06-18T14:18:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/65779\/"},"modified":"2026-06-18T14:18:10","modified_gmt":"2026-06-18T14:18:10","slug":"uk-travelodge-apologizes-for-free-palestine-tv-message","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/65779\/","title":{"rendered":"UK Travelodge apologizes for ‘free Palestine’ TV message"},"content":{"rendered":"

Travelodge has not been able to determine how a “free Palestine” message<\/a> appeared on the room TV screen of a Jewish guest, the hotel chain told The Jerusalem Post on Thursday.<\/p>\n

During the first week of June, a visibly Jewish man found \u201cFree Palestine\u201d on the TV in his Travelodge room in London<\/a> Manor House, in London.\u00a0<\/p>\n

A video he took of the TV soon went viral on social media, especially after he reported being met with hostility by a staff member at the front desk, who refused to look at him or properly serve him.<\/p>\n

Travelodge told the Post on Thursday that it is very close to concluding a “robust internal investigation” into the incident, but has not been able to determine how or when the message was put on the TV.<\/p>\n

It confirmed that the CEO has spoken with the guest to express apologies for the experience.<\/p>\n

“We have also been engaging closely with leaders and groups within the Jewish community<\/a> to reiterate our absolute zero-tolerance stance on antisemitism and any form of discrimination and our commitment to ensuring that the Jewish community feels safe and welcome at all of our hotels,” the hotel added.\u00a0<\/p>\n

“We have treated this incident very seriously from the outset as there is no place for antisemitism<\/a> in this country and we took action immediately to address this.”<\/p>\n

A source told the Post that the hotel reached out to Antisemitism Policy Trust shortly after the incident and is in discussions with them about training on antisemitism in the business.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Travelodge has not been able to determine how a “free Palestine” message appeared on the room TV screen…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":65780,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[4],"tags":[93,3353,16170,5,6],"class_list":["post-65779","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-uk","tag-antisemitism","tag-diaspora","tag-hotel","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@UnitedKingdom\/116771547002035344","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65779","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=65779"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65779\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/65780"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=65779"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=65779"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=65779"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}