Claims of antisemitism are being made by vacationers from a Lufthansa flight that originated out of New York's John F. Kennedy Worldwide Airport, CBS New York stories.
A number of Jewish organizations declare greater than 100 Jewish passengers weren't allowed to go on a connecting flight from Frankfort to Budapest as a consequence of a masks dispute.
Folks on the flight final Wednesday declare a number of Orthodox Jews refused to put on a masks, which the service nonetheless requires. However as an alternative of simply excluding these males, the airline allegedly did not enable any visibly Jewish individual to proceed their journeys.
In an announcement, the airline acknowledged denying boarding to a lot of folks and mentioned it regrets the circumstances surrounding the occasion. The choice, it mentioned, "resulted from a number of incidents of non-compliance with crew security directions, together with not carrying masks."
Lufthansa mentioned it is nonetheless reviewing what occurred and it apologizes to the passengers, including that it has "zero tolerance for racism, antisemitism and discrimination of any sort."