Posted on 11/15/2023 6:36:37 AM PST by Red Badger
On Tuesday hundreds of thousands of American Jews and their supporters held a rally for Israel in Washington DC.
The protest was attended by both Democrat and Republican lawmakers.
900 attendees from the Detroit area were left stranded at Dulles after bus drivers refused to transport them to the rally.
The Biden administration skipped the march and rally.
At the same time every single Senate Democrat voted to stop aid to Israel.
Unlike the pro-Palestinian crowd, the crowd sang the National Anthem at their rally yesterday.
A vile leftist chanted Heil Hitler at the crowd.
Newsweek reported:
Hundreds of people were left stranded on the tarmac in Washington, D.C., after bus drivers refused to take them to the March for Israel on Tuesday, according to a rabbi.
The March for Israel brought over 100,000 people to the nation’s capital in a show of solidarity for Israel and to call attention to the hostages that are still being held by Hamas. While the event was peaceful and garnered support from legislators of both major political parties, several rabbis said getting to the rally was a harrowing journey after their buses never showed up.
David Kurzman, senior director of community affairs at the Jewish Federation of Detroit, told reporters on a call that it was a “historic day” for the Jewish community that was marred by the experience with the bus drivers.
Kurzman wouldn’t say which bus company was involved or who was responsible for coordinating the transportation. But he said he was informed people called in sick when they became aware of the assignment.
“In the way that this action prevented community members, proud Jewish Americans, from exercising their freedom to speak, protest, assemble, gather today at the nation’s capital, that to me was a malicious act,” Kurzman said.
Kurzman stopped short of calling it an “act of antisemitism,” but said it was an act targeting the Jewish community
Are you really advocating unscreened passengers free reign over both tarmac and terminal?
I’m very familiar with IAD, both the commercial side and the GA side. And you’re correct, charter planes are GA and don’t have access to the amenities on the commercial side, to include the Metro station. (”Side” is not to be taken too literally.) Also, several hundred people would overwhelm the FBO.
The more I think about it, the more it’s clear that the bus company is completely at fault, and probably in breach of contract. Assuming we’re being told the truth, here. The ultimate source appears to be “Newsweek”.
It’s what is occurring.
You really shouldn’t believe everything you read on the Internet. I know the low IQ does but try to smarten up and follow that one rule.
“Are you really advocating unscreened passengers free reign over both tarmac and terminal?”
Are you really calling them “unscreened”?? How stupid of you not to understand they didn’t get on the tarmac without screening in the first place.
“Kurzman wouldn’t say which bus company was involved or who was responsible for coordinating the transportation.”
Say the name.
Or recent college graduates.
They could have been erring on the side of caution in a number of ways. For one, just to avoid the chaos of telling a group of 900 people that the plan has gone out the window and everyone is on their own to make their own way. They may have thought it better to keep the group together and try to find out an alternate solution for the whole group.
“Ever heard of Uber or Lyft?”
Uber, at least, doesn’t give last names of customers to the drivers, so unless some of the dudes are wearing Yamahas (or look traditional), it’s unlikely the drivers would figure out they’re Jewish.
To which group did their organizers below?
“Is that why they came to America to protest???” “Foreigners going to any other country to protest should never be allowed admittance...”
General Aviation passengers don’t go through TSA security theater.
The internet is like the game of Telephone. This story started out this morning with 300 Pro-Israel supporters stranded out on the tarmac...
That’s an important detail.
there were 3 charter planes from Detroit
BTTT
Why do they have a job today? Jew hating has become a virtue for the insane left.
That is shocking.....to make them order the bus.....pay for it....then abandon the group.
Read the article.
Have you ever been to Dulles Airport?
The planes do not taxi up to the terminal. The aircraft stop on the tarmac, far from the terminal. Special "mobile lounges", a very expensive combination of a loading ramp and a bus, drive the passengers to and from the planes. They dock with the planes at one end of the short trip across the tarmac, and with the terminal at the other end.
Sometimes, mobile stairs can be used to off load the passengers who then board a more or less standard bus to get to the terminal.
There is no way to get off an aircraft at Dulles without some kind of bus driver.
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