Viral video reveals a Jewish American Airways passenger tearing right into a flight attendant and calling her “antisemitic” for sporting a watermelon pin, which has change into an emblem for Palestinian solidarity.
Video from contained in the Miami-bound airplane and uploaded to social media reveals the person in a heated argument with the flight attendant as he tore into her for sporting the pin and never letting him go away the airplane.
“You support terrorism, you’re antisemitic,” the passenger yells. “Why are you preventing me from leaving the plane, is it because I’m Jewish? You’re antisemitic.”
The flight attendant and a colleague inform the person he can’t movie them, in line with US aviation laws, and so they additionally accuse him of placing his palms on them.
The passenger was allegedly informed he was not allowed to go away till he deleted the video and needed to await police to escort him out, however the man claimed he was the one who known as the cops for assist.
“Once officers came they told them I didn’t break any laws and they are the ones breaking the law by holding me on the plane for stupidity and they still refused to let me go so the officers got really upset and took me off the plane,” the passenger mentioned.
“It was very upsetting to be treated like a criminal,” he added.
American Airways mentioned it was investigating the incident, which unfolded final week. The corporate didn’t instantly reply to The Submit’s request for remark.
American Airways forbids its employees from sporting unauthorized pins that aren’t a part of the official uniform.
Based on the corporate’s coverage, employees are solely allowed to put on company-issued pins that commemorate an anniversary or award, or a union pin from a company-recognized group.
American additionally permits pins to be worn that commemorate army service in addition to others particular pins celebrating faith, ethnicity or LGBTQ delight.
American Airways employees beforehand made headlines over a break on this coverage when pilots and flight attendants had been caught sporting pins and stickers with the anti-Biden slogan, “Let’s Go Brandon,” in 2022.
