An Israeli author wearing an “End Jew Hatred” T-shirt was detained at Luton Airport after staff claimed his book poster was “offensive” – now he’s suing for antisemitism. The Telegraph has the story.
One of Britain’s biggest airports has launched an investigation after an Israeli author claimed he was subjected to antisemitism by staff over a poster promoting a talk on the October 7th attacks.
Alon Penzel said he was challenged by an airport security guard while on his way to the departure gate to catch a flight from Luton Airport to Tel Aviv.
At the time he was wearing a T-shirt with the slogan “End Jew Hatred” and carrying an A3-size black and white promotional sign emblazoned with the title of his book, Testimonies Without Boundaries: Israel: October 7th 2023.
Mr. Penzel claims that after passing through security checks without any problem a security guard stopped him and told him that his sign was “offensive”.
The 23 year-old campaigner and journalist had spent a week in London promoting his book, featuring first-hand accounts from Hamas hostages and survivors of the October 7th massacre, which killed 1,200 people.
He had also been invited to speak at a House of Lords event by historian Andrew Roberts, who described the incident as “utterly disgraceful”.
Mr. Penzel said: “I had already been through security and I was walking to the gate when a security man came up to me, and asked me if I was a protester.
“I was puzzled. I said ‘no, I’m just trying to catch my flight’. He pointed at my sign and said that some people may find it offensive. I asked why and he said it was offensive because there has been an illegal occupation since 1948. It was then that I realised something else was going on.”
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There is something very, very, wrong with our country at the moment if it’s even thinkable for an airport security guard to make a comment on middle east politics. If I were Jewish, I would be checking my emigration options, and that is not acceptable in my homeland.
Ah, I see. A T-shirt with “End Jew Hatred” is considered offensive.
Well, last summer when I traveled from the same airport there was a guy wearing a T shirt with “F off” written on it (and the full F-word was used”. I doubt anybody stopped him.
You shouldn’t over-estimate literacy skills along airport “workers”.
I had my ‘Made in Chy-Na! T-Shirt on back in the summer. I did get stopped, but only because I had only hand luggage. The yellow part of the Chinese flag is replaced by a virus.
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“… by staff..”
Staff? Let me guess.
he’s suing for antisemitism
I hope he wins. I hope Luton Airport have to cough up a big wodge of compensation.
Luton is another Muslim hell-hole, just ask Tommy!
You hope he wins… Who really fucking cares..
Stop being taken in by such bullshit…
A guy going to catch a flight is told by someone that his T-shirt is offensive. The rest of the story is behind a pay wall but the headline indicates he is suing the airport. All rather excessive but who cares? If he sues, he will either win or lose. Is this supposed to be an interesting story or just another not so subtle reminder how we must always be sympathetic towards Jews, that we must always support them, they can never do wrong, we must never criticize them, and so on and so forth? Does the same apply to other religious groups, to other specific races? Why should it apply to any particular group of people? I do not know any Jews but I certainly know that the Israeli armed forces are guilty of mass murder incited by their leaders. This neither means that all Israelis are murderers nor that all Jews are murderers, but it does mean that a large number of Israelis, who are presumably Jews, are definitely guilty of serious crimes. That unfortunately does place Israelis in an unenviable position when travelling around the world. No person should ever be harassed by anyone but is it really asking too much for Israelis, under the current circumstances, to avoid wearing T-shirts with provocative statements on them?
Exellent post, which will, i can guarantee, go straight over their heads..
The Daily Sceptic….. That rams certain narratives down your throat…
Why is the slogan “End Jew Hatred” provocative?
Would one which said “End Muslim Hatred” also be provocative?
How about “End Christian Hatred?
In each case, there’s the question of who is currently doing the hating.
Because Jews, or more exactly Israelis, are provoking hatred themselves by committing genocide against the Palestinians. Israelis are provoking hatred by bombing civilians in Lebanon, Syria, Irak and Iran. You do not sow peace by randomly bombing your own civilians and civilians in surrounding countries.
You can’t really say that asking for the end of hatred is somehow bringing about a manifestation of hatred elsewhere. It is a non sequitor and I would’ve told him so. Not that it would’ve done any good obviously. You need to understand that the parameters that you are operating within have changed rapidly since 2020. You’re not in Kansas anymore or even multicultural Britain anymore. Like the Lou Reed song, taste the whip now bleed for me.
Now this is interesting, not in a way that the subject is interesting, its far from it, but interesting why this particular “moan” is on the Daily Sceptic.
I mean ffs, everyone has a problem with EVERYTHING these days in this utter bs woke world we live in…
Its the editors choice whether its important enough to warrent publishing……….. More Zionists bollocks… Blatently rammed down your necks… Gulp gulp gulp..Courtesy of The Daily Sceptic
Have you not seen any of Gervias’s stand ups……
ridiculing being “offended”…
Could’ve been worse. He could’ve left his car parked next to an EV in Lutons multi-story car park
Or even missed off an apostrophe!