Tag: Lufthansa
US $4m fine of Lufthansa sends ‘strong message,’ says House Jew-hatred panel co-chair
Rep. Chris Smith (R-N.J.), a member of the House Foreign Affairs Committee and co-chair of the legislative body’s Task Force for Combating Antisemitism, applauded the U.S. Department of Transportation’s agreement with Lufthansa to fine...
German airline to appoint anti-Semitism manager after keeping Jews from flight
Lufthansa Airlines will hire an anti-Semitism manager and adopt the International Human Rights Commission’s (IHRA) working definition of anti-Semitism after an incident that garnered international attention, in which more than 100 identifiably Jewish individuals were barred from a flight on...
‘Say yes to the world’ but no to the Jews: Lufthansa’s anti-Semitic scandal
It took several days, but eventually, the world’s media grasped why the scandal at Frankfurt Airport last week, when more than 100 Orthodox Jews were prevented by the German airline Lufthansa from boarding a...
Lufthansa apologizes for preventing number of Jewish passengers from flying
Germany’s leading airline Lufthansa apologized on Tuesday for keeping more than 100 identifiably Jewish individuals from flying with the airline last week from Germany to Hungary.
The passengers, many of whom were traveling individually and had been...