Israeli tourists were recently denied accommodation at a hotel in southern Germany after receiving a message through an online booking site stating, “Sorry, there are no Jews allowed in our hotel,” the Israeli Consulate in Munich said Monday.
The guests were refused by the Hotel zum Hirschen in Lam, Bavaria, according to the Ynet news site, which said a review of the message confirmed its authenticity.
The report did not specify when the message was sent.
The tourists filed a complaint with the Bavarian Justice Ministry’s commissioner for combating antisemitism, the report added.
The guests also filed complaints with Booking.com, which has temporarily removed the property from its platform.
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“Are we back in the 1930s?” asked Israeli Consul General Talya Lador, sharing the message in a German-language post on social media.
Sind wir wieder in den 1930er Jahren? Ein Hotel hat einem Israeli folgendes geantwortet: „sorry, there are no Jews allowed in our hotel“.
Ich bin froh darüber, dass @bookingcom dieses Hotel von seiner Homepage verbannt hat. pic.twitter.com/3hiBEK1dse
— Talya Lador (@TalyaLador) June 2, 2026
Germany continues to face persistently high levels of antisemitism, with 2,197 anti-Jewish incidents recorded in Berlin alone in 2025, according to a report published Wednesday by the German government’s antisemitism watchdog. The figure was down about 13 percent from 2,521 incidents the previous year, but remained more than double pre-October 7, 2023, levels.
“The threat to Jewish life is worse than at any time since the Holocaust,” Hesse antisemitism commissioner Uwe Becker said in a statement following the report.
This week’s incident also comes amid a wave of recent hostility towards Israeli and Jewish tourists abroad, marking the third incident in as many weeks of hotels or spas refusing entry to Jewish or Israeli guests.
On Friday, two Jewish American women said they were denied entry to a Barcelona sauna because they were wearing Star of David necklaces. The sauna’s owners later apologized.
Weeks earlier, two Israeli tourists were verbally harassed by an employee at a hotel in California, with video showing the employee asking the couple if they were “baby killers” and whether they had served in the Israeli military.
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