Lufthansa fined $4,000,000 for Jew-hatred discrimination against passengers

Lufthansa: the airline most preferred by Nazis

You may remember when Lufthansa Airline refused to allow 128 Orthodox Jewish passengers to board a flight in May 2022. Well, the U.S. Department of Transportation has ordered the German airline to pay a $4 million fine for the anti-Semitic incident.

The passengers were easily identified as Jewish as they wore traditional Orthodox garb and were going from New York City through Frankfurt to Budapest. 

A few of these passengers allegedly "misbehaved" partly due to mask compliance, and rather than dealing with the alleged offenders, the Lufthansa employees reportedly treated them as a single group, in spite of the fact that they all didn't know each other and were traveling individually.

What were these Nazis thinking?

The Jewish community in the diaspora was outraged and leading anti-Semitism watchdog groups got involved, including Deborah Lipstadt, the United States' special envoy to monitor and combat anti-Semitism. She told NBC News that she found the Lufthansa incident “unbelievable.”

I believe it.

“[When] I first heard it, I said, ‘Oh, this must be wrong,” Lipstadt said when it happened. “Someone must be misreporting this. And then of course, it turned out to be precisely right — and worse than we even thought.”

Later that year, the American Jewish Committee signed a memorandum of understanding with Lufthansa, announcing that Lufthansa would adopt the IHRA definition of antisemitism and that the AJC would train airline employees on how to identify and respond to antisemitism. In July 2022, Lufthansa CEO Jens Ritter said the company would hire someone to fill a senior management position “for the prevention of discrimination and antisemitism.”

The airline also agreed to pay each affected passenger $20,000 from the airline in November 2022, plus a reimbursement of $1,000. But what about the scumbags who didn't allow them to board--were they disciplined with having to find other employment in a non-airline industry.

The new penalty, which followed an investigation into more than 40 discrimination complaints from Jewish passengers aboard the flight, is the largest amount ever issued in the United States against an airline over civil rights violations, the federal transportation department said in a statement Tuesday.

“No one should face discrimination when they travel, and today’s action sends a clear message to the airline industry that we are prepared to investigate and take action whenever passengers’ civil rights are violated,” gay Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg said in a statement.

In the consent order announcing the penalty, Lufthansa lied about the occurrence of any discrimination, instead attributing the incident to “an unfortunate series of inaccurate [aka anti-Semitic] communications, misinterpretations, and misjudgments throughout the decision-making process.” 

The company again apologized for the incident in the hope of avoiding boycotts by non-racists.

“Lufthansa states that it has zero tolerance for any form of religious or ethnic-based discrimination, including antisemitism,” the company said in the consent order. “Lufthansa states that it and the entire passenger airline group have had a robust and fruitful relationship with the Jewish communities around the world, especially in the United States. Lufthansa states that it is a trusted choice, to this day, for members of the Orthodox Jewish Community who continue to use the Lufthansa Group for travel throughout Europe as well as to Israel.”

The Lufthansa airline group had the perfect excuse and has canceled all flights to and from Israel until at least the end of this month, amid broad interruptions in air service induced by widening conflict in the region as the IDF is kicking some serious terrorist butt.

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Life-long Democrat becomes a Republican: "The Democratic Party has become so radicalized"

A life-long New York Democrat and Assemblyman from the 48th District, Dov Hikind announced on Thursday that he and his wife would be registering as Republicans because his former party has become unhinged. He even hinted that he might make a possible run for office.

Hikind had been involved for decades in New York politics and has a powerful influence in New York's Orthodox Jewish electorate. He represented the 48 Assembly District from 1983-2018, in the Brooklyn neighborhood of Borough Park, one of the largest Orthodox Jewish communities in the world.

Now he says the Democratic Party no longer reflects his values as they have become radicalized.

“Unfortunately, the Democratic Party has become so radicalized,” Hikind said in a video posted on Twitter, his wife Shani at his side. “People who are moderates or conservative Democrats are not welcomed in the Democratic Party, Shani, and I’ve had enough. The Democratic Party turns its back on its friends, like Israel, the Biden administration, right now in policy after policy. I’m just tired. I’ve had enough.”

Asked if he intended to run for office, Hikind replied, “we shall see.” This likely means "yes" in polito-speak.

Hikind was a registered Democrat his entire voting life, but had endorsed only Republicans for the presidency since 2004. Although he did not endorse former President Trump in 2016, he did endorse him in 2020 but would not endorse him again after Trump hosted Kanye [Ye] West, an overt scumcrumpet anti-Semite [my term, not Hikind's] and the Holocaust denier and alt-right crap weasel Nick Fuentes, for a dinner at his Mar-a-Lago club last year.

Hikind is not alone in switching parties. The New York Orthodox community as a whole has become disenchanted with the left and their anti-Semitic rhetoric and anti-Israel sentiments [but I repeat myself].

The New York Jewish community with large Orthodox populations in Brooklyn's  Borough Park, Crown Heights and Williamsburg neighborhoods, has finally awakened [not 'wokened'] to the leftist's racist sentiments and voted overwhelmingly for Lee Zeldin in the 2022 gubernatorial election, making it the best performance by a Republican candidate for governor in 20 years.

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Lufthansa pulls out their Nazi card on Jews heading from NYC

Flying the Jew-less Skies

Correction: I originally titled this post 'Lufthansa pulls out their Nazi card on Jews heading for NYC.' Obviously they were coming from NYC, to eventually arrive in Budapest from Frankfurt.


The German airline Lufthansa removed all 127 Orthodox Jews from a NYC flight connecting in Frankfurt bound for Budapest last week. The reason the airline gave was that a couple in the group refused to wear a useless mask [the HEPA filtering system makes airplanes virtually Covid-free]. The refusal provoked the German airlines to ban all the other Jews from the flight simply because, well, they are Jews.

In a video taken by a passenger, one Lufthansa agent says, “If you want to do it like this, Jewish people who were the mess, who made the problems.”

Actually, it was the one couple who refused to wear a mask and rather than dealing with them as people, the a-holes of Lufthansa dealt with them based on their religion and removed Jewish people (who were wearing useless masks) from the plane.

It turns out the group of Jews were also banned from buying tickets to Budapest for 24 hours and one passenger  claimed that dozens of police officers were waiting for the Jewish passengers when they landed in Germany. 

This week, the German airline apologized for the anti-Semitic incident.

However, these scumbags could still face legal action after a prominent advocate for the Jewish community accused Lufthansa of violating German laws on equal treatment.

In a statement issued on Tuesday, Lufthansa offered a belated apology “to all the passengers unable to travel on this flight, not only for the inconvenience, but also for the offense caused and personal impact.”

Other videos posted to social media by the Jewish passengers included disturbing scenes of armed German police officers angrily confronting Jewish travelers after one of their number was called a “Nazi” — a criminal offense under German law, even when it's true.

However, the airline said it regretted “that the large group was denied boarding rather than limiting it to the non-compliant guests.” But it gave no rational reason why the compliant "guests" were kicked off the connecting flight.

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The statement concluded with a reassurance that “what transpired is not consistent with Lufthansa’s policies or values. We have zero tolerance for racism, antisemitism and discrimination of any type.”  It never mentioned compensation for the passengers nor any disciplinary action they plan to take, if any.

The airline said it would “be engaging with the affected passengers to better understand their concerns and openly discuss how we may improve our customer service.”

How about  by just not being anti-Semitic a$$holes.

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Curtis Sliwa blasts Orthodox Jews as a "drag on the tax system"

Who'd a thunk it--Curtis Sliwa has a brief history of what appears to be anti-Semitic rhetoric as evidenced in a resurfaced video from 2018.

[H/T The New York Jewish Week]

Sliwa is the Republican candidate for mayor in New York City and denounced the "bloc vote," which is comprised of Orthodox Jewish voters. This is definitely not a smart thing to say when you have future political aspirations in a city where many Orthodox Jews live, especially when Orthodox Jews, much more than secular Jews, tend to vote Republican, the party that takes freedom of religion more seriously than the left.

But the reality is, if you're running for New York City mayor on the Republican ticket, you have a very poor chance of winning.

“We’re not talking about poor, impoverished, disabled people who need help," Sliwa went on, referring to Orthodox Jews, "we’re talking about able-bodied men who study Torah and Talmud all day and we subsidize them. And then all they do is make babies like there’s no tomorrow and who’s subsidizing that? We are.

“So are we the schmucks and putzes? Yes.” Good to know he has familiarity with everything Orthodox Jews do [make babies], versus the left who is okay with killing babies.

The video shows Sliwa, the founder of the Guardian Angels speaking at a meeting for the Reform Party. The video was originally posted to a Facebook page called United Hudson Valley on Oc. 25, 2018.

Sliwa won the Republican primary Tuesday against Fernando Matteo.

In the video, he repeatedly speaks out against the “bloc vote,” referring to Orthodox Jews. He encourages the meeting attendees to vote for Reform Party candidates to keep the “bloc vote” from continuing to control New York politics.

“They don’t vote the way normal Americans vote…They’re being told by the rebbe or rabbi this is who you vote for,” Sliwa said. All the left has to tell them who to vote for is the legacy media, unions and celebrities.

He also spoke about political contributions from Orthodox donors, as if that was a bad thing. Follow Sliwa's thinking and the left would never lose another election.

Sliwa was a member of the Reform Party until Feb. 2021, when he joined the Republican Party to run for mayor of New York City as a Republican, implying that his allegiance is dependent upon how he might benefit.

In his 2018 speech, Sliwa took issue with the idea that his own words might be construed as anti-Semitic.

“The moment you bring this to somebody’s attention, you’re called an anti-Semite. You’re not anti-Semites, you’re trying to preserve your community,” he said adding that his two youngest sons are Jewish, as if one cannot be an anti-Semite based on that.

But perhaps he isn't. I will give him the benefit of the doubt.

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NYC Mayor Herr Warren Wilhelm Jr., threatens orthodox Synagogue shut down "once and for all"

Comrade Herr der Blasio

New York City Democratic Mayor, comrade Herr Warren Wilhelm Jr., [aka Bill der Blasio] threatened an ultra-Orthodox synagogue in Brooklyn that he will shut them down "once and for all" if they don't obey his orders, which have thus far not worked to stem the infection rate of COVID-19 as the city is being inundated with new cases.

During a Tuesday fake press conference, der Blasio was asked about a large indoor funeral held Monday by Congregation Yetev Lev D’Satmar, a prominent synagogue in Williamsburg that was also fined $15,000 for secretly conducting a large indoor wedding in November. 

“If we see another confirmed situation in which an inappropriate event is happening in that same building, then we’re going to have to move to shut down the building once and for all,” de Blasio, a flaming anti-Semitic Communist POS said, according to the Gothamist, a local paper. “That would be the next step if we see non-compliance.” 

He obviously hasn't read the U.S. Constitution in any great depth.

“I do think there’s an ideological factor that’s making things a lot harder,” the former Hitler Youth said.

He also seemed to imply that the Hasidic community’s continued non-compliance with state and city lockdown orders stems from their widespread support for President Donald Trump, rather than their religious priorities.

A unnamed source in the community told Gothamist that de Blasio’s threats were “laughable,” adding, “These tactics were available to him the entire time. I don’t see any reason to think he’s going to do it this time.”

De Blasio has been threatening to shut down active synagogues and churches since the beginning of the pandemic, but has not made the same threats to mosques and rioters.

 During a press conference on March 27, the scumcrumpet threatened non-complying houses of worship, sans mosques, that law enforcement “will take additional action up to the point of fines and potentially closing the building permanently.”

New York City’s Orthodox Jewish community have clashed repeatedly with both Herr der Blasio and fellow anti-Semite Democratic New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo over lockdown orders that unfairly target them.

Comrade Der Blasio, like other hypocritical Democratic political leaders, marched in solidarity with crowds of protesters who gathered bellybuttons to butts in the wake of  George Floyd’s overdose death. 

Somehow the coronavirus is woke.

Der Blasio drew swift and widespread condemnation after he scolded the Jewish community in April after personally helping to disperse a rabbi’s funeral in Williamsburg because he simply cannot suck enough.

“My message to the Jewish community, and all communities, is this simple: the time for warnings has passed,” der Führer warned in a power tweet. “I have instructed the NYPD to proceed immediately to summons or even arrest those who gather in large groups. This is about stopping this disease and saving lives. Period.”

This is about hatred and politics. Period.

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