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All the Kosher Meals You Can Eat

Lufthansa gets sacked with a record fine for banning Jews from a flight

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Al Lewis
Oct 16, 2024
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Imagine a plane filled with 128 Green Bay Packers fans, most of them dressed in green jerseys.

Many also wear green caps sporting their team’s big-G logo. Some have obnoxious yellow hats shaped like oversized wedges of cheese. They look a lot alike, especially because it’s 2022 and airline passengers are still required to wear masks.

The Covid-19 pandemic has driven many air travelers mad, resulting in thousands of incidents involving unruly passengers. Flight crews are increasingly paranoid. And suddenly there are all these strange cheeseheads on a plane.

You don’t share cheesehead beliefs that the Packers are God’s gift to the NFL. Maybe you think finding religion in football is an idiotic sacrilege. Or maybe you’re a Chicago Bears fan and you hate the Packers.

A few of these cheeseheads take off their masks and congregate in the aisles.

Instead of taking these individuals to task for flaunting the rules, the flight crew reports everyone in a green jersey to airport security. This move bans them from their connecting flight, strands them at a foreign airport, and keeps them from their precious game.

Who cares? They’re a bunch of cheeseheads. They deserve what they get, especially the ones wearing bricks of fake cheese on their heads. It’s not like you’re from Wisconsin, where they proudly sell T-shirts that say, “Come smell our Dairy Air.”

This is what happened on a Lufthansa flight in May 2022, only the 128 passengers were not cheeseheads in green jerseys, they were Jews in black, Orthodox garb.

The airline couldn’t identify a single individual who broke the rules. It simply banned everyone in black hats and dark suits from their connecting flight.

On Tuesday, the U.S. Department of Transportation slapped Lufthansa with a record $4 million fine for this discrimination.

It’s easy to hate a cheesehead, but its wrong to punish all of them for the antics of a few. (Photo Credit: Wikimedia Commons.)

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