Air France Fined for Discrimination Against 'Flytilla' Activist

Arutz Sheva ^ | 6/4/13 | Elad Benari

[Eleutheria5]

A French court on Thursday ordered Air France to pay a 10,000 euro ($12,800) fine for having ordered a pro-Palestinian Authority activist off a flight to Tel Aviv because she was not Jewish, AFP reports.

According to the report, the court also ordered the French flagship carrier to pay 3,000 euros in damages to the passenger and her legal fees.

Horia Ankour, a nursing student, had attempted to fly to Israel from France last April to take part in the “flytilla”, which saw hundreds of pro-Arab activists seeking access to Israel in a bid to travel to Gaza.

Israel took action before the provocation, contacting Europe's main airlines and providing them with a list of activists who would not be allowed into Israel. The airlines then cancelled some 300 tickets, essentially foiling the “flytilla” attempt.

Ankour was taken off the plane in the southeastern city of Nice after an Air France employee asked whether she had an Israeli passport and then, when she replied "no", whether she was Jewish, AFP reported.

When the 30-year-old answered "no" again she was escorted from the flight. French prosecutors reportedly backed her in the case, saying it was a clear case of discrimination.

Air France had said her name was on a list of undesirables provided by Israeli authorities and it was certain she would not be allowed into the country.

The activists who tried to enter Israel last April were given sarcastic letters which “thanked them” for choosing to make Israel the object of their humanitarian concerns rather than protest the deadly crackdown on protests in Syria or the Iranian regime’s brutal crackdown on dissent.”

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[Eleutheria5]

Judges the world over have been infected with Stupid Virus. Its symptoms include a loss of all common sense, delusions of enlightenment, and the uncontrollable desire to teach the entire world the error of its ways. It is believed that the disease is first contracted in law school, but some speculate that it is secretly injected into students while they are too busy taking the bar exam to notice a sharp pain in their a!@.

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks Eleutheria5.

...a 10,000 euro ($12,800) fine for having ordered a pro-Palestinian Authority activist off a flight to Tel Aviv...

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks Eleutheria5.

Ankour was taken off the plane in the southeastern city of Nice after an Air France employee asked whether she had an Israeli passport and then, when she replied "no", whether she was Jewish, AFP reported. When the 30-year-old answered "no" again she was escorted from the flight. French prosecutors reportedly backed her in the case, saying it was a clear case of discrimination. Air France had said her name was on a list of undesirables provided by Israeli authorities and it was certain she would not be allowed into the country...

[I want the USA back]

Change the ethnicities, and there’s not even a peep.

[yefragetuwrabrumuy]

I suspect had Air France taken her, she would have both been refused entry, and put right back on the flight to France, and Air France would have had to pay for her back flight.

Instead, Air France should have invited some Israeli diplomatic agents to their terminals, to provide an official letter of protest to the French government for each and every one of these passengers allowed to board a flight to Israel.

Then, instead of allowing them to take a flight home, Israel should have provided a African flagged tramp steamer to boat them home. One that really reeked of fish, and didn’t have very good stabilizers, which would promote seasickness.

[cardinal4]

Does anyone remember the dopes who tried to take the double decker bus to Iraq to be human shields? The Flotilla types remind me of those people. Rachel Corrie lives on in Pali stupidity..