Hoax Confirmed: The Anti-Semitic Airline (2019)

In 2019 JTA published a piece on a so-called ‘anti-Semitic hate crime’ that occurred on a Spirit Airlines flight from Newark, New Jersey to Fort Lauderdale, Florida.

To quote Cnaan Liphshiz’s article for JTA for the details:

 ‘An Orthodox Jewish couple from New York said that a Spirit Airlines attendant harassed them on a flight to Florida, though the company said they ignored safety rules.

Chana and Yisroel Beck and their three infant children boarded the flight to Fort Lauderdale Tuesday from Newark Airport, the New York Post reported Thursday. The couple wanted to take aboard a baby carriage that converts into a seat but a flight attendant firmly told them not to take aboard.

One passenger from Rockland County who is identified in the article only as Binyamin told the Post that the flight attendant used anti-Semitic language, telling a colleague something about “those retarded Jews.”

Another crew member told Yisroel Beck he could not seat with the rest of his family in a three-row seat, with one child on his lap, according to the report. When the plane landed, the couple were escorted by security, detained and questioned. Their return tickets were voided and they were banned from flying Spirit, the couple said.

They said this treatment was unjust and uncalled for.’ (1)

This looks fairly clear cut to me. In so far as Chana and Yisroel Beck purchased three seats on the flight and then turned up with their three infant children plus a stroller that could convert into a car seat. They then expected that the airline would ‘accept’ this extra unpaid for seat and began kvetching loudly when they weren’t allowed to use or stick two of their infant children on their laps.

Now I have several young children myself and have flown with them. The normal practice would be to purchase three extra seats if the infants are not babies and even then it is common courtesy to do so. That would mean purchasing five seats in total not three as Chana and Yisroel Beck did.

Is it any wonder then that the cabin crew reacted as they did to jews trying to cheat the system and putting their own children as well as other paying passengers in danger just because they were trying to be cheap.

Predictably the jewish response has been to claim that this is anti-Semitism as can be seen from a fawning article on the incident by a jewish journalist named Yaron Steinbuch in the ‘New York Post’.

To quote Steinbuch:

‘Former Assemblyman Dov Hikind, whom the family contacted about the incident, called the alleged anti-Semitic remark “inexcusable.”

“This family was traumatized, and their family vacation ruined by the unprofessional behavior of the airline staff,” he said in a statement. “The comment about ‘retarded Jews’ qualifies the steward for dismissal. Spirit has much explaining to do.”

Chana also called for the crew member to be fired, and wants Spirit to reimburse their ticket costs and compensate them for their traumatic experience.

“It was pure anti-Semitism for literally nothing,” she said.’ (2)

Obviously the jews demanded compensation – laughable I know – but they also based their claims of ‘anti-Semitism’ on what another jew claimed he heard (aka hearsay), which has been denied by the airline.

Not exactly the most solid of cases: is it?

It makes you think they might just be kvetching about ‘anti-Semitism’ in the hopes of getting a large check from the airline to shut up: doesn’t it?

Yet it didn’t work because police subsequently arrested the Becks for their conduct and not heeded their screeching about so-called ‘anti-Semitism’. (3) Despite this the Becks had their attorney – a fellow jew named Yechezkel Rodal – file a federal lawsuit against Spirit Airlines claiming that it was ‘discrimination’ because the flight attendants ‘shouldn’t have the power’ to kick (jewish) customers off of flights as they ‘couldn’t just exit like it was a shop.’ (4)

Unsurprisingly this law suit was dismissed in July 2019.

Imagine my surprise.

Scratch another so-called ‘anti-Semitic hate crime’.

References

(1) https://www.jta.org/quick-reads/ny-orthodox-couple-arrested-after-altercation-on-spirit-flight-to-florida

(2) https://nypost.com/2019/01/10/spirit-airlines-turned-our-flight-into-an-anti-semitic-nightmare-couple/

(3) https://www.jta.org/quick-reads/ny-orthodox-couple-arrested-after-altercation-on-spirit-flight-to-florida

(4) https://www.law.com/dailybusinessreview/2019/05/06/south-florida-lawyer-suing-spirit-airlines-over-familys-alleged-anti-semitic-ordeal/?slreturn=20190408042948; https://eu.usatoday.com/story/travel/flights/2019/05/08/spirit-airlines-sued-orthodox-jewish-couple-over-anti-semitism/1140642001/