A Lufthansa flight crew bans all Jews from boarding one of its flights: Nor did it make things any better when a representative for the airlines said they would have done exactly the same to African passengers

American Thinker ^ | 05/10/2022 | Andrea Widburg

[SeekAndFind]

When Lufthansa, Germany's flag carrier airline, left New York for Frankfurt, most, but by no means all, of its passengers were Jews, with about 80% of them being Hasidic Jews bound for Budapest.  Because some of the Hasidic passengers apparently refused to wear their masks, once the plane arrived in Frankfurt, Lufthansa banned all but two Jews (men whose yarmelkes were hidden under baseball caps) from boarding their flight to Hungary.  This openly antisemitic conduct was bad under any circumstances, but it was especially ugly coming from a German company.  After all, in 1938, a year that was the prelude to the Holocaust, Nazis also imposed collective punishment on all Jews for the "sins" of a few.

Eighty-four years ago, the Nazis levied the Judenvermögensabgabe, or Jewish Capital Levy.  The trigger was Herschel Grynszpan's attempt to assassinate Ernest Eduard vom Rath, a Nazi diplomat.  Because Grynszpan was Jewish, the Nazis used the assassination attempt as the justification for Kristallnacht, a pogrom against Jews carried out within Germany on November 9–10, 1938.  Because "the Jews" had tried to assassinate vom Rath, "forcing" the Germans to engage in a pogrom, Hermann Göring announced that all Jews were responsible for paying a one-billion-Reichsmark fine as "atonement" for "the hostile attitude of Judaism towards the German people."

That attitude was alive and well in the Lufthansa terminal at Frankfurt.  DansDeals broke the story:

On Wednesday, I heard about an incident on Lufthansa flight 401, a Boeing 747-8 that flew from JFK to Frankfurt, that was almost too hard to believe. Allegedly, Lufthansa refused to allow any of the Jews from that flight onto their connecting flight to Budapest, while non-Jews were free to continue on their journeys. Two dozen armed police officers ensured that no Jews boarded the flight or caused issues at the gate.

[philippa]

Solid ground for a lawsuit.

[Aria]

Oh great - I’m flying Lufthansa at the end of the month and didn’t realize I’d have to wear a $(%*% mask.

[SouthernClaire]

Indeed.

[AppyPappy]

“wear the mask”
“But science”
“Screw science, obey the rules Jew”

[dforest]

Because a few did not mask, they banned and punished all but two who had covered their yarmulke and people were unable to tell if they were Jews.

So yes, what they did was anti semetic. I would bet they wouldn’t ban all Americans because a few didn’t have a mask on because they couldn’t determine if the others were Americans without asking.

Masks don’t work and are a source of trouble wherever they are demanded.

[DoodleDawg]

The problem was masks: Lufthansa was incredibly strict about them in a Germanic kind of way. During the flight, a pilot announced that people needed to stop blocking the galleys to pray and needed to wear their masks. Clearly, some people were disregarding Lufthansa's rules.

But of course it was because they were Jewish. </sarcasm>

[monkeyshine]

It was because they were easily identified as Jews with their typical Hassidic look. Only some refused the masks, but the airline decided to ban all of them because they look the same or something? Sort of like saying “all Blacks look alike so we’d ban them too” which is what I think the airline was reported as saying in the article.

[RinaseaofDs]

Everybody missed that reference to the Blues Brothers I guess, yours and mine.

[SJackson]

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