Pink Floyd co-founder Roger Waters claims Israeli lobby pressure got him banned from hotels in Buenos Aires and Montevideo.
Waters attempted to book hotel rooms in two Buenos Aires hotels for his ‘This Is Not a Drill’ tour later this month, but reservations at both were canceled, he told Argentinian newspaper Pagina 12. The Faena Hotel claimed they were “undergoing refurbishment,” while the Alvear Hotel first approved Waters’ booking for ten rooms, then canceled it, he explained.
Hotels in Uruguay’s capital, Montevideo, also rejected Waters while declining to furnish an explanation, the musician said, complaining that he was unable to attend a dinner date with the country’s former president, Jose Mujica, due to being “canceled” by the Israeli lobby.
“Somehow these idiots of the Israeli lobby managed to co-opt all the hotels in Buenos Aires and Montevideo and organized this extraordinary boycott based on the malicious lies … about me,” the singer said.
The presidents of the Central Israelite Committee of Uruguay and the B’nai B’rith NGO, Roby Schindler and Franklin Rosenfeld, had threatened to launch a campaign against the Sofitel hotel chain if Waters was allowed to stay there. The Pink Floyd frontman “takes advantage of his fame as an artist to lie and spew his hatred towards Israel and all Jews,” Schindler said in a letter to the chain, warning that “by receiving him, you will be, even if you do not want to, propagating the hatred this man exudes.”
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Can the refusal of a service, like a hotel stay, be justified if the individual has controversial opinions or expresses contentious ideas?
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yes as their controversial opinions may lead others to not want to use such a service like a hotel, and then the business will lose money
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While everyone has the right to their own opinions, some of them can be discriminatory or harmful to others, like agreeing that an innocent person should be killed for example. Some companies also have their own policies so it depends on that to.
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