The Department of Transportation accused Lufthansa of discriminating against the group “based on the alleged misconduct of some passengers.”
German national carrier Lufthansa on Tuesday was slapped with a $4 million fine by the US Department of Transportation forfrom a flight after an airline staffer reportedly fumed that “everyone has to pay” for the mistakes of a few.
Although many of the passengers did not know each other or were not traveling together, boarding on the connecting flight was denied to those that the staffers determined were Jewish because they were wearing a yarmulke or had side curls, known as p The incident led Ambassador Deborah Lipstadt, the Biden-Harris administration’s special envoy against antisemitism — to condemn the airline for “classic antisemitism.”
Uwe Becker said that apparently an entire group of people — solely because of their recognizable faith — had been held responsible for something that obviously only affected individual travelers.
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