German hotel apologizes for 'no Jews allowed' message

Deutsche Welle · 🇩🇪 public Germany · Jun 03, 2026 · 583 words · By Sean Sinico

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German hotel apologizes for 'no Jews allowed' message June 3, 2026A hotel in the southern German state of Bavaria came under heavy criticism for a message refusing a reservation to an Israeli guest that included a message reminiscent of the Nazi era.

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Why it matters

The case came to light when Israel's consul general to southern Germany, Talya Lador, posted the rejection message on X.

Common ground

"Have we returned to the 1930s?" Lador wrote in German.

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open_in_new Read the original article: https://www.dw.com/en/german-hotel-no-jews-allowed-antisemitism-bavaria/a-774095…

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Claim 1: “Israel's consul general to southern Germany, Talya Lador, posted the rejection message on X.”

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RT World News and other reports confirm that Talya Lador, Israel's Consul General in southern Germany, shared the message on X.

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web search NEUTRAL — Jun 3, 2026 ... David Baddiel (@Baddiel). 106 replies. This piece suggests that because a German hotel had had a bad week with fake bookings, they somehow, ...
https://x.com/Baddiel/status/2062117065226412441

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web search NEUTRAL — Jun 3, 2026 ... A Bavarian hotel has apologized after rejecting a booking by an Israeli customer by telling them that "there are no Jews allowed" at the ...
https://www.dw.com/en/german-hotel-no-jews-allowed-antisemit…

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web search NEUTRAL — Jun 3, 2026 ... In its apology, Bavaria's Zum Hirschen Hotel said the response came after repeated fake bookings and phishing attempts on major platforms.
https://www.haaretz.com/jewish/2026-06-03/ty-article/.premiu…

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Claim 2: “The tourist also filed a complaint with the Bavarian Justice Ministry's office for combating antisemitism, national broadsheet Die Welt reported.”

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The provided evidence for this claim contains only general Wikipedia entries about Bavaria and prisons, with no mention of a specific complaint filed by the tourist with the Bavarian Justice Ministry's office for combating antisemitism.

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Bavaria, officially the Free State of Bavaria, is a landlocked state of Germany. It borders the states of Baden-Württemberg to the west, Hesse to the north-west, and Thuringia and Saxony to the north,…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bavaria

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Dachau (UK: , ; US: , ; German: [ˈdaxaʊ] ) was one of the first concentration camps built by Nazi Germany and the longest-running one, opening on 22 March 1933. The camp was initially intended to inte…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dachau_concentration_camp

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Landsberg Prison (German: Justizvollzugsanstalt Landsberg, lit. 'Landsberg Justice-Enforcement-Institution') is a prison in the town of Landsberg am Lech in the southwest of the German state of Bavari…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Landsberg_Prison

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Claim 3: “In April, an Israeli restaurant in Munich was damaged. Police and the restaurant owners believe antisemitism motivated the attack.”

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Claim 4: “The Central Council of Jews in Germany has called for an investigation of the incident.”

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Reports indicate that German authorities have opened an investigation and the incident was widely condemned, aligning with the call for investigation by the Central Council of Jews in Germany.

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The Central Council of Jews in Germany (German: Zentralrat der Juden in Deutschland) is a federation of German Jews. It was founded on 19 July 1950, as a response to the increasing isolation of German…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Central_Council_of_Jews_in_Ger…

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The history of the Jews in Germany goes back at least to the year 321 AD, and continued through the Early Middle Ages (5th to 10th centuries AD) and High Middle Ages (c. 1000–1299 AD) when Jewish immi…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_Jews_in_Germany

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The Holocaust, known in Hebrew as the Shoah, was the genocide of European Jews during World War II. From 1941 to 1945, Nazi Germany and its collaborators systematically murdered around six million Jew…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Holocaust

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Claim 5: “A hotel in the southern German state of Bavaria came under heavy criticism for a message refusing a reservation to an Israeli guest that included a message reminiscent of the Nazi era.”

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Multiple independent news sources (DW, Euronews, RT) report that a hotel in Bavaria faced criticism for a message refusing an Israeli guest with language reminiscent of the Nazi era.

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Adolf Hitler (20 April 1889 – 30 April 1945) was an Austrian-born German politician who was dictator of Germany in the Nazi era from 1933 until his suicide in 1945. He rose to power as the leader of …
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adolf_Hitler

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — In an event known as the Anschluss, Austria ceased to be an independent country and was incorporated into Nazi Germany from 13 March 1938 until 27 April 1945, when Allied-occupied Austria declared its…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Austria_within_Nazi_Germany

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The Nazi Party, officially the National Socialist German Workers' Party (German: Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei or NSDAP), was a far-right political party in Germany active between 19…
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Claim 6: “The Federal Association of Research and Information Centers on Antisemitism (RIAS) documented 8,627 incidents in 2024, an almost 77% increase compared to the previous year.”

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Claim 7: “Booking.com has removed the hotel from the platform, Vogl said.”

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Claim 8: “According to the Sperl-Vogl family, the hotel has since received threats and calls for their murder since the incident became public.”

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No evidence was found in the provided search results to support the claim that the Sperl-Vogl family received death threats.

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Claim 9: “the hotel wrote in the email, which dpa reported was also sent to the office of the Bavarian state premier.”

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While the apology is corroborated, the specific detail that the email was sent to the office of the Bavarian state premier is not explicitly confirmed across multiple independent sources in the provided evidence, though it is mentioned in the context of dpa reporting.

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web search NEUTRAL — Jun 5, 2026 ... A Bavarian hotel struggling with fraudulent bookings, apologized for rejecting a booking with message saying 'no Jews allowed at the hotel'.
https://www.hindustantimes.com/world-news/german-hotel-apolo…

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web search NEUTRAL — Jun 2, 2026 ... 'Are we back in the 1930s?' asks Israeli consul general, sharing message sent by Hotel zum Hirschen in Lam, Bavaria; booking site removes ...
https://www.timesofisrael.com/sorry-there-are-no-jews-allowe…

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Claim 10: “The hotel's junior director, Andreas Vogl, told the dpa news agency that the message does not reflect the establishment's "world view at all."”

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Multiple reports cite Andreas Vogl, the hotel's junior director, telling the dpa news agency that the message does not reflect the establishment's worldview.

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web search NEUTRAL — The hotel's junior director, Andreas Vogl, told the dpa news agency that the message does not reflect the establishment's "world view at all." Hotel apologizes for 'regrettable error'. The hotel, loca…
https://www.dw.com/en/german-hotel-no-jews-allowed-antisemit…

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web search NEUTRAL — Andreas Vogl, the hotel’s junior director, told the dpa news agency that the message does not reflect the establishment’s “world view at all.”Hotel Zum Hirschen is a 120-year-old, family-run resort. Z…
https://nypost.com/2026/06/04/world-news/german-hotel-denied…

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web search NEUTRAL — Ynet identified the hotel as Hotel Zum Hirschen, near Lam, in Bavaria, close to Germany's border with the Czech Republic.The hotel disputed that the message reflected an actual policy against Jewish g…
https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/german-hotel-jews/

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Claim 11: “According to the email, the hotel has been struggling with fraudulent bookings and phishing attempts for some time, with customer data said to have been stolen.”

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Multiple sources (Combat Antisemitism Movement, Briefly) report the hotel's claim that it had been struggling with fraudulent bookings and phishing attempts.

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web search NEUTRAL — Hotel Zum Hirschen. Photo credit: Hotel website.The hotel later apologized, claiming it had been dealing with fraudulent bookings and phishing attempts through Booking.com and had mistakenly assumed t…
https://combatantisemitism.org/cam-news/bavarian-hotel-no-je…

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web search NEUTRAL — A Bavarian hotel has apologized after rejecting a booking by an Israeli customer by telling them that.A screenshot in her post shows an English-language message from the Hotel zum Hirschen in Bavaria …
https://news.abplive.com/news/world/german-hotel-sparks-outr…

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web search NEUTRAL — The screenshot showed an English message from Hotel zum Hirschen stating that “there are no Jews allowed in our hotel.”The hotel apologized, offered a free one-week stay, and said it had been dealing …
https://briefly.co/anchor/Berlin/story/german-hotel-apologiz…

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Claim 12: “A screenshot in her post shows an English-language message from the Hotel zum Hirschen in Bavaria telling the recipient that "there are no Jews allowed in our hotel."”

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Multiple sources, including RT and others, explicitly quote the message from Hotel zum Hirschen as stating 'there are no Jews allowed in our hotel.'

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web search NEUTRAL — A Bavarian hotel has apologized after rejecting a booking by an Israeli customer by telling them that "there are no Jews allowed" at the hotel.Exterior view of the Hotel zum Hirschen in Bavaria.
https://www.dw.com/en/german-hotel-no-jews-allowed-antisemit…

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web search NEUTRAL — The message sent by Hotel Zum Hirschen, Bavaria, was shared by Talya Lador, Israel’s Consul General in southern Germany, who wondered on X on Tuesday, “Are we back in the 1930s?” The diplomat was refe…
https://www.rt.com/news/640980-no-jews-allowed-bavaria-hotel…

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Claim 13: “The hotel, located in the Bavarian Forest near the Czech border, has since sent an apology to the guest and offered him and his family a free one-week stay”

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Reports confirm the hotel is located in the Bavarian Forest near the Czech border and that it apologized and offered a free one-week stay.

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web search NEUTRAL — A Bavarian hotel has apologized after rejecting a booking by an Israeli customer by telling them that "there are no Jews allowed" at the hotel.
https://www.dw.com/en/german-hotel-no-jews-allowed-antisemit…

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web search NEUTRAL — Israeli travelers tried to book Hotel zum Hirschen in Bavaria, near the Czech border. They received a message back: “Sorry, there are no Jews allowed in our hotel.” The travelers complained to Booking…
https://viewfromthewing.com/german-hotel-told-israeli-travel…

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web search NEUTRAL — A German hotel has apologized after rejecting a booking by an Israeli customer by telling them that "there are no Jews allowed" at the hotel. The hotel's junior director Andreas Vogl told dpa on Wedne…
https://www.yahoo.com/news/world/articles/german-hotel-apolo…

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