A Jewish passenger on an Iberia Airlines flight from Buenos Aires to Madrid received a kosher meal with the words “Free Palestine” written on the packaging, the Delegation of Argentine Jewish Associations (DAIA) reported on Tuesday evening.
One Jewish passenger, Salvador Auday, received his food tray with the full words “Free Palestine,” and other Jewish passengers received trays with the initials “FP.” All were written with the same marker.
Auday told the Argentine media that he reported the incident to the flight crew, and they were very apologetic. He said that he believes that the phrase may have been written by an employee of the food supplier rather than by a flight attendant, but he wants a full investigation of the incident.
DAIA lambasted the “discriminatory” incident and contacted the aviation authorities demanding an explanation and immediate action against Iberia, which is Spain’s national airline and a member of the International Airlines Group (IAG)
Iberia is the parent company of Vueling Airline, the low-cost Spanish airline that forcibly removed a group of Jewish teenagers from France from the plane in Spain last month solely because of their Jewish identity and brutally arrested their 21-year-old counselor, knocking her to the ground and handcuffing her, leaving her with physical injuries.
(YWN Israel Desk—Jerusalem)
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Clearly the Spaniards are feeling exceedingly with the 533rd anniversary of the Spanish Expulsion, but they only have themselves to blame for this, & not the expelled Jews
Why do we continue to spend money there? Why are we not in practice, reinstating the CHEREM Rabbeinu Gershom placed on Spain by boycotting it totally? Why are so many of our community still vacationing there? Why are we buying its merchandise?
“He said that he believes that the phrase may have been written by an employee of the food supplier rather than by a flight attendant”
Ha. But a flight attendant delivered it. Anyway, if I were there I would have informed the flight attendant who delivered the note that I do free Palestine, so there should be no more complaints.
Did you know the Spanish inquisition only ending in 1834? Yes, that’s correct! Harry above has the correct attitude: we shouldn’t be visiting or spending money on Spanish things. They are actually worse than the Germans were in the Holocaust. The auto-de-fe and the torture the Spaniards did was gruesome.
Harry, Rabenu Gershom never placed any herem on Spain!!! How could you even imagine such a stupid thing?
Actually no one ever placed any herem on Spain. There is no evidence that there was ever such a herem, by anyone, at any time. But what is beyond doubt is that Rabbenu Gershom never did so, and it takes a real idiot to think that he did. Why would he?