German Airline Lufthansa Bans All Jews From Plane

Germany’s flag carrier denounced for collective punishment against Jewish passengers following mask dispute.

More than 100 Orthodox Jews were prevented by the German airline Lufthansa from boarding a connecting flight at Frankfurt Airport last week, following a row over masking requirements that resulted in what passengers alleged was a collective punishment.

The 127 Jewish passengers, who were traveling in separate groups last Wednesday, were not allowed to board a connecting flight to Budapest as a result of the claimed refusal of some of them to wear masks on the plane from New York’s John F. Kennedy Airport to Frankfurt.

One of the passengers told the German-language FAZ news outlet that while a handful of the Jewish passengers had not worn their masks correctly, he and most of the others had done so…..more.

This is not new for Hitler’s airline.

Over 100 NYC Orthodox Jews get kicked off German flight over mask dispute

By Selim Algar, NY Post, May 9, 2022:

A group of about 100 Orthodox Jews from New York City says it was barred from boarding a connecting flight in Germany last week — because a few didn’t wear masks on the previous leg, according to reports.

The group embarked from JFK Airport in Queens to begin a religious pilgrimage to Budapest, Hungary. They had a stopover in Frankfurt on Wednesday — but when they tried to board their next plane out of Germany for Hungary, they were not allowed to get on it.

The group said they were all barred from the Lufthansa jet because a handful of them hadn’t worn masks on their inbound trip from New York.

Lufthansa booted more than 100 New York City Orthodox Jews from boarding a connecting flight in Germany because a few refused to wear masks, reports say.

“Due to operational reasons coming from the flight from New York, for all passengers here we have to cancel you on this flight,” astonished members of the group said they were told at the gate, according to the Jewish news outlet Hamodia.

American flights no longer require masks, but German law has kept the mandate intact for travel. It wasn’t clear if those members of the group who didn’t wear masks on the US flight were willing to put on face masks for the Lufthansa journey.

But either way, when some mask-wearing members of the group began to object to being lumped together for their next leg, a Lufthansa staffer allegedly conceded they all were being punished for the actions of those who previously didn’t wear masks.

“They explicitly said that nobody who is dressed alike on that [JFK] plane is going to board the Lufthansa plane to Budapest,” group member Nachman Kahana told Hamodia.
Passengers waiting for their flights in the main Terminal at Frankfurt Airport.
American flights no longer require masks, but German law has kept the mandate intact for travel.
Artur Widak/NurPhoto via Getty Images

Only “one or two” did not wear masks on the previous flight, Kahana noted.

One of the Orthodox Jews in the group grilled an airline staffer about the mass exclusion on a tense video posted to Twitter.

“Is this a Lufthansa decision that all Jewish people on that flight, we can’t go on any other flight today?” the man asks incredulously. “Because this is 2022, and this is a Western country. So this is to go to upper management because this is an [anti-Semitic act].”

Lufthansa denied the accusations in a statement to Hamodia.

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