A disturbing photo reminiscent of Nazi concentration camps was tweeted out by EasyJet, depicting a flyer who has tattooed his first flight with the airline on his forearm.
In the since-deleted tweet, the airline captioned the photo, writing: “You never forget your first flight.”
As is well known, the Nazis would brand their concentration Auschwitz victims with tattoos of their identification numbers. Well over a million people received such tattoos from the Nazis.
After deleting the tweet, an EasyJet spokesperson said it was no more than a mistake.
“While this is a genuine picture of a customer’s tattoo celebrating their first flight with us, we understand the concerns raised and as a result decided to remove the post,” the airline’s media team said. “We are sorry for any offence unintentionally caused by the post.”
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16 Responses
It is understandable that many Jews would be offended by this tweet.
It is unfortunate that some Jews do not seem to care that their own words can be equally hurtful to others.
It is long past time that we end racism in our community.
The airline deleted it and apologized. I would give them the benefit of the doubt that it was done intentionally.
Are we really a bunch of snowflakes that we have to be outraged at stories like this?
Take it easy YWN. Just because some people search high and low for reasons to be offended doesn’t mean that we need to as well. Does anyone really believe that this is “despicable” and was intended in any manner to cause insult or harm? It doesn’t even resemble any Holocaust tattoos which I’ve seen– which were all higher up on the arm and written horizontally. That being said, the guy with the tattoo seems a bit meshugah to do this.
My parents were both holocaust survivors, my mother from Auschwitz. I remember clearly her number tattoo and I saw many others. This tattoo has absolutely no resemblance whatsoever! the Auschwitz tattoo was vertical higher up on the arm this is horizontal close to the wrist. We have to stop seeing Nazi’s everywhere.
What kind of nonsense is this? How can you compare this to a Nazi tattoo? This is ridiculous.
Seems like this customer knew pretty well what he was doing.
Just the caption ‘You never forget’ seems very intentional not genuine on the customers part.
When it’s a slow news day create Antisemitism where it doesn
When it’s a slow news day create Antisemitism where it doesn’t exist. You’d have to be a professional who makes their living off the Holocaust to consider this Antisemitic.
As the proud grandson of Holocaust survivors: To all retards “offended” by this tattoo — You’re all retarded! What a beautiful tattoo. What the hell?! Because the nazis tattooed numbers, all tattooes with numbers are now anti-Semitic?!
“you never forget” plus the tattoo does resemble holocaust number tattoos, this was absolutely intentional. Those of you saying we shouldn’t get offended by any little thing are right to a certain extent, but how can you say this doesn’t resemble a Holocaust tattoo especially paired with ” you never forget”?
perhaps a stretch to make such a comparison..
but still always a positive, to remind ALL of ourselves ,
what is the reality towards JEWs in this world…
There’s real stuff out there. No need to dig.
You are not solving antisemitism through yelling and screaming.
Really?! We get offended by a tattoo with numbers?!
We’ve all seen Auschwitz tattoos on the arms of survivors. That looks NOTHING like one of them.
There are enough examples of real anti semitism already.
ANNOYING: Jewish news website misuses “despicable.”