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Last update - 16:52 08/01/2008 Court: Kibbutz must pay for denying entry into club over skin color By Fadi Eyadat Tags: Kibbutz, Israel, racism  The Haifa District Court on Tuesday instructed the Ramot Menashe Kibbutz to pay 28-year-old Yizhak Mizrahi NIS 50,000 in compensation for not allowing him to enter the Kibbutz dance club "Terminal" due to the dark color of his skin. Mizrahi arrived at the club in June 2004 with his girlfriend and three other friends. His four companions, who are light-skinned, were allowed entry by the selector while Mizrahi was left to wait outside. After a half an hour wait, Mizrahi turned to the selector and asked him why he was not allowed inside. The selector responded that it was only a temporary delay but during this time he allowed other people into the club. Finally, according to the verdict, the selector told him that the club manager, Shlomo Binyamin, had instructed not to allow Mizrahi or another Sephardic looking man into the club since they "didn't look right to him." When Mizrahi asked to speak in person with Binyamin, he brushed him off. In light of the incident, Mizrahi had to leave the location humiliated. Advertisement In their ruling, the court agreed that the club was a public place and thus the manager's prejudice was unacceptable. "Barring the entry of Sephardim into bars and clubs is a negative phenomenon that occurs mostly in privately owned venues and must be dealt with," the ruling said. "The color of someone's skin can never be criteria for entry into a club. Moreover - and we want to make this as clear as possible - it can never be an indication of how someone will behave." Related articles: Racism on the rise in Israel Mockery of Peretz is plain old racism Bookmark to del.icio.us   Oh Hillary Clinton throws everything but the kitchen sink at New Hampshire. Jewel of the Crown Diamond billionaire Lev Leviev buys most expensive property ever sold in Britain.   1.   If it happens again at this club, it should be closed (nt) 14:26  |  JonathanInTelAviv 08/01/08   2.   Kibbutzes,backbone of ultra Left elite.Racist to the boot 14:45  |  Absolute Sweden 08/01/08   3.   They Thought Mizrahi Was An Arab 14:57  |  Yaakov Sullivan 08/01/08   4.   Typical leftist/Meretz racism 15:14  |  Binyamin Dissen 08/01/08   5.   Boycott necessary 15:49  |  Israeli citizen 08/01/08   6.   Now THAT is racism of the worst kind 15:50  |  Lynn 08/01/08   7.   Racism in the Jewish State! 16:00  |  Ruth Broch 08/01/08   8.   Discrimination 16:02  |  Dab 08/01/08   9.   Racism was a rule at the Jewish Agency 16:22  |  TEA 08/01/08   10.   Swede, been to a kibbutz? 16:58  |  bobby 08/01/08   11.   let mne get this right? in hatereal its ok to discriminate 17:11  |  say what? 08/01/08   12.   Wow. Israelis sure are racist. it seems almost mainstream 17:29  |  POP 08/01/08   13.   To Yaakov Sullivan No. 3 17:44  |  Bronx Neil 08/01/08   14.   bobby you are wrong on two points 17:55  |  ex-kibbutznik 08/01/08   15.   israel learnt well 18:09  |  ravi 08/01/08   16.   pubs clubs 18:51  |  Noam 08/01/08   17.   Racism cannot be allowed 19:16  |  Joan Stuchner 08/01/08   18.   How about this... 19:55  |  JK 08/01/08   19.   #12 POP 20:00  |  Sol 08/01/08   20.   NO tolerance for racism 20:00  |  Daniel 08/01/08   21.   Probably Manager was Extreme Left Haaretz Reader 20:36  |  Mark Hamil 08/01/08   22.   #10, Correction 21:33  |  Buzaglow 08/01/08   23.   would it have turned out different if the arab was 21:35  |  serious question 08/01/08   24.   Bronx Neil Has It Wrong 21:39  |  Yaakov Sullivan 08/01/08   25.   Don`t make generalizations about kibbutzim 23:15  |  Yonatan 08/01/08   26.   Racism is common in many Israeli offices 10:21  |  TEA 09/01/08

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