Awful: Lufthansa Accused Of Discriminating Against Jews

What? A mess.

If reports are to be believed, a lot of passengers were denied boarding on a flight because they looked Jewish, to pay for the mask-related crimes. I want to tackle this as simply as possible.

There were mask compliance issues on a Lufthansa flight

DansDeals has a detailed description of what happened. The situation started on a flight from New York to Germany.

It was estimated that there were 135-170 Orthodox Jews traveling on the flight, including many who were going on a pilgrimage to visit the grave of a Rabbi. The estimate is based on knowing that one travel agency sold 80 tickets, another sold 30 tickets, and a bunch of people booked individually with cash or points.

There were some issues with masks. While the United States does not require masks on planes, masks are required on flights from Germany.

It's fair to say that the crew was very careful about making sure everyone wore their mask. The decision was made to deny boarding to some passengers due to not following crew member instructions, due to the fact that there were compliance issues with them.

That's fair, except.

By association, Lufthansa denied all Jews boarding

Many armed German police officers were present at the departure gate of the plane that was going to Hungary. There were people who were confirmed to have mask compliance issues on the flight to New York who were not denied boarding.

According to reports, the captain made the decision about which passengers should be denied boarding.

A passenger can be heard talking to a Lufthansa agent in a video that has since been taken down for violating terms of service.

Passenger: I was wearing a mask the entire time, why am I lumped in with them?Lufthansa agent: It was one, everyone has to pay for a couple.Passenger: What do you mean everybody, everybody from that race? Everybody else on the flight went.Lufthansa agent: Not everybody.Passenger: The non-Jewish people on the flight went. Why are only the Jewish people paying for other people’s crimes?Lufthansa agent: Because it’s Jews coming from JFK.Passenger: Oh, so Jewish people coming from JFK are paying for the crimes of a few people?Lufthansa agent: NoPassenger: Jewish people are paying for the crimes of Israel?Lufthansa agent: NoPassenger: Just the Jewish people on that flight?Lufthansa agent: Do you want to discuss with me or no? Do you want to listen to me?Passenger: I’m like shocked beyond, never in my adult life. I’ve never heard this.Lufthansa agent: If you want to do it like this, Jewish people who were the mess, who made the problems.Passenger: So Jewish people on the plane made a problem, so all Jews are banned from Lufthansa for the day?

Lufthansa agent: Just for this flight.