Posted on 05/10/2022 1:35:15 PM PDT by 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.
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Did non-Jews also refuse to wear the masks?
It wasn’t anti-semitism. 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.
After the flight arrived in Frankfurt, passengers headed for the connecting gate that would get them on a flight to Budapest, only to find the area crawling with police, with 24 eventually standing there. When Lufthansa began boarding the Budapest flight, they called passengers by name to board. Ultimately, only two Jews, both flying first class, were allowed on the plane. Neither was wearing a visible yarmulke. (You can see videos of all this at DansDeals.) Eventually, a plane that could hold 192 passengers departed with, at most, 20 passengers.
When the passengers stuck in Frankfurt tried to re-book flights, they learned that Lufthansa had put a 24-hour hold on them, denying them the right to board any Lufthansa flights. When they were finally able to rebook flights, it cost them hundreds, even more than a thousand, dollars.
The worst video, the one that’s making social media rounds (and that both YouTube and Instagram banned for hate speech, before finally allowing it), shows a Lufthansa supervisor explaining to a non-Hasidic passenger that group punishment was necessary and appropriate and would have been the same for Africans or Poles.
Lufthansa? Jews? Who wouldda thunk it!
Is their being Jewish have anything whatsoever to this matter. I hated the masks but if you are going to fly and the foreign airline, maybe foreign country requires masks, put them on or deal with being booted. Shame to cry out Jewish discrimination when that appears to not be the case. Crying wolf is a loser in the long run. No sympathy.
They would have done the same thing to Aryan Nazis.
Or Illinois Nazis.
I wonder what El Al’s policy is these days?
I hate Illinois nazis.
RE: They would have done the same thing to Aryan Nazis.
Yes, I think so. But I don’t think the Nazi’s are allowed in Germany today.
This is rightwing fakenews propaganda.
That's the way I read it too.
Or Jewish Nazis. I’m sure Putin and Lavrov can point them out.
Some but not all of the Hasidic passengers refused to wear masks. Those passengers should have been kicked off; but not all the Hasidim. I guess they all look alike to Lufthansa.
Illinois Nazis are the worst.
El Al is still making passengers wear masks too.
https://www.elal.com/en/PassengersInfo/Pages/Flight-Experience.aspx#
I grew up in Illinois before it turned Hitlerian.
Exactly, Philippa. The lady in the video openly admitted that the group of Jews were being held back from boarding because of the actions of a few.
Germans gotta Germ
From the article:
“Because some of the Hasidic passengers apparently refused to wear their masks...”
So were they banned because they were Jewish or because they refused to wear masks? Would maskless non-Jews also be banned from boarding? It wasn’t really clear, even after reading the full article.
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