I would like to start by saying I am not defending anyone who did not obey the airline rules about masking but what happens next and the things the airline rep says plus the actions of the German police is chilling.

On a recent flight from JFK to Frankfurt then to Budapest, it was announced that because Lufthansa is a German airline, passengers were required to wear a mask as it is German law. Some passengers including several of Jewish decent refused to wear a mask. When the flight arrived in Frankfurt “all” people whose appearance showed them to be Jewish or had Jewish sounding names were refused boarding on their connecting flight.

In the first video a passenger is trying to reason with the Lufthansa rep as he was not with the ones not masking and he did not know them. He wanted to know why he was refused boarding.

She says, “everybody has to pay for a couple.” —- “Jewish people were the mess, they made the problems.”

What? Does that sound that far from the Nazi rallying cry… Jews are the problem?

The passenger is astonished that in 2022, in a western country he would be refused boarding because of his race or religion. Surely, the airline staff had the ability to take the seat numbers and names of those who would not comply. Reportedly others who were not Jewish, who also refused to mask, were allowed to board.

The passengers who were denied boarding were section off behind a rope and the police were called. In the second video someone in the crowd calls the officer a Nazi. His reaction, his body language and demands to know who said it while holding the automatic rifle is horrifying.

There would be outrage if this happen to any other group of people. Would all whites be banned, all blacks, all Christians, or all Muslims? I would be on the news and cries for demanding justice from all walks of life. Thus far I have only seen this a a few Jewish news agencies and a week after the incident an article in the Jerusalem Post.

We say “Never Again” but anti-antisemitism is alive and growing. The growing hate between many groups is alarming and I pray we can turn our hearts away from hate and discrimination before it is too late.