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Re: My Brother just got kicked off AA for being jewish
« Reply #101 on: May 08, 2024, 02:35:24 PM »
https://www.ynetnews.com/article/hjvvvmfgc
At least they credit Baltimore Jewish Life, which credits DDMS.

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Re: My Brother just got kicked off AA for being jewish
« Reply #103 on: May 08, 2024, 03:02:36 PM »
CLE PD reporter was told by her editor she has to find someone else from the flight. :(
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Re: My Brother just got kicked off AA for being jewish
« Reply #104 on: May 08, 2024, 04:04:18 PM »
Disappointed but not entirely surprised this wasn't picked up yet

Reached out to someone at the Forward and a few minutes later another reporter tweeted this:

https://twitter.com/thislouis/status/1788293636503003584

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Re: My Brother just got kicked off AA for being jewish
« Reply #106 on: May 08, 2024, 04:18:32 PM »
Reached out to someone at the Forward and a few minutes later another reporter tweeted this:
https://twitter.com/thislouis/status/1788293636503003584

The longer AA waits for its crafted/ambiguous PR response, the more buzz it would generate.

20 opens probably means the email has been kicked around AA.
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Re: My Brother just got kicked off AA for being jewish
« Reply #107 on: May 08, 2024, 04:29:46 PM »
The longer AA waits for its crafted/ambiguous PR response, the more buzz it would generate.

20 opens probably means the email has been kicked around AA.

I think AA is trying to buy as much time as they can and hope they can get away without saying a word.

This is a stupid loop. News outlets won't print without comment from the passengers or AA. AA won't comment if there are no big public stories.

I would think that if bigger outlets ask for comment and get nothing, that in itself should be enough basis for a story

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Re: My Brother just got kicked off AA for being jewish
« Reply #108 on: May 08, 2024, 04:36:17 PM »
I would think that if bigger outlets ask for comment and get nothing, that in itself should be enough basis for a story

From AA. No comment from the affected passengers (to larger outlets) might come across as them not telling the entire story.
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Re: My Brother just got kicked off AA for being jewish
« Reply #109 on: May 08, 2024, 04:40:04 PM »
From AA. No comment from the affected passengers (to larger outlets) might come across as them not telling the entire story.
Yup, the yeshiva students don't want the headache, which I don't blame them for. But it also means that news agencies aren't going to cover it, so there's no pressure on AA.
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Re: My Brother just got kicked off AA for being jewish
« Reply #110 on: May 08, 2024, 04:42:16 PM »
Yup, the yeshiva students don't want the headache, which I don't blame them for.

Why wouldn't the father talk on his minor son's behalf?

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Re: My Brother just got kicked off AA for being jewish
« Reply #111 on: May 08, 2024, 04:43:28 PM »
Why wouldn't the father talk on his minor son's behalf?
He can, but the media generally wants to hear things firsthand from a named source.
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Re: My Brother just got kicked off AA for being jewish
« Reply #112 on: May 08, 2024, 04:44:36 PM »
He can, but the media generally wants to hear things firsthand from a named source.

He's a minor boy in school and cant be bothered, they won't understand that?

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Re: My Brother just got kicked off AA for being jewish
« Reply #113 on: May 08, 2024, 05:03:37 PM »
Yup, the yeshiva students don't want the headache, which I don't blame them for. But it also means that news agencies aren't going to cover it, so there's no pressure on AA.
I think they should talk; if not for them, then for Klall Yisroel, the situation for Jews is escalating and going out of control. we need to do our hishtadlis (I personally was scared to wait on a lien by the snap office in down town Brookly.)

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Re: My Brother just got kicked off AA for being jewish
« Reply #114 on: May 08, 2024, 05:17:06 PM »
[/i] (I personally was scared to wait on a lien by the snap office in down town Brookly.)
Perhaps you should wait on line.
If not for yourself, then for Klall Yisroel, the situation for Jews is escalating and going out of control. we need to do our hishtadlis
No one goes on SNAP for themselves....they do it for Klal Yisrael
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Re: My Brother just got kicked off AA for being jewish
« Reply #115 on: May 08, 2024, 07:52:00 PM »
Did anyone try to reach out to Republic Airways for comment?
I've been waiting over 5 years with bated breath for someone to say that!
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Re: My Brother just got kicked off AA for being jewish
« Reply #116 on: May 08, 2024, 08:07:17 PM »
To be clear, he wasn’t kicked off the plane for being Jewish, there were probably other Jewish passengers on the plane that weren’t kicked off. He was kicked off for presenting as an Orthodox Jew.
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Re: My Brother just got kicked off AA for being jewish
« Reply #117 on: May 08, 2024, 08:11:08 PM »
To be clear, he wasn’t kicked off the plane for being Jewish, there were probably other Jewish passengers on the plane that weren’t kicked off. He was kicked off for presenting as an Orthodox Jew.
This makes no sense.
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Re: My Brother just got kicked off AA for being jewish
« Reply #118 on: May 08, 2024, 08:15:31 PM »
To be clear, he wasn’t kicked off the plane for being Jewish, there were probably other Jewish passengers on the plane that weren’t kicked off. He was kicked off for presenting as an Orthodox Jew.

The Jew detector device was out of commission so they had to do it manually, with poor results.   

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Re: My Brother just got kicked off AA for being jewish
« Reply #119 on: May 09, 2024, 04:15:46 AM »
The Jew detector device was out of commission so they had to do it manually, with poor results.
Why didn't they simply measure their noses?