‘Are you a baby killer?’: Israeli couple harassed by employee at California hotel

Hotel staffer repeatedly asks pair if they served in IDF and calls them ‘baby killers,’ as antisemitic and anti-Israel attitudes surge in US

Two Israeli tourists were recently harassed by an employee at a California hotel with questions like “Are you a baby killer?” and “Did you serve in the IDF?,” according to video shared Saturday on social media.

The interaction, which apparently took place Friday night, was filmed and uploaded by the man working at the front desk of the hotel in Cambria, California.

In the video, which starts in the middle of the interaction, the man is heard saying, “All I said was free Palestine.”

The Israeli woman then replied that he needs to be “objective” toward clients and “should be ashamed.”

“Are you a Zionist?” the employee then asked.

“Are you a baby killer?” he continued. “Did you serve in the IDF?”

As the couple discussed the situation between themselves in Hebrew, the hotel manager again asked: “Did you serve in the IDF?”

In the caption of the post, the hotel employee said he “stared into the soul of the devil” of an “IDF soldier child killer.”

No further details have been reported about the incident.

The incident came amid surging antisemitism in America and as anti-Israel sentiment spikes among Americans, with Pew Research Center survey released in April showing six in 10 Americans said they have a very or somewhat unfavorable view of Israel, up 20 percentage points since 2022.

Recent US polls have also found that Democrats and younger respondents are significantly more opposed to the Jewish state.

In a poll published on Friday by The New York Times and the Siena Research Institute, only seven percent of respondents between the ages of 18 to 44 were more sympathetic to Israel in its conflict with the Palestinans, compared to 22% among voters over the age of 45.