Israeli passengers at Heathrow Airport have reported being harassed and subjected to “degrading treatment” by customs officials wearing pro-Palestine badges. The Mail has more.
The complaints have prompted a Home Office investigation by their professional standards unit.
This comes after two Israeli survivors of the Nova Music Festival attacks were “detained for two hours” at Manchester Airport earlier this year.
The passengers arrived at Heathrow on an El Al flight from Ben Gurion airport and were passing through the airport at 10.30pm when a customs official noticed the Israeli flags on their bags.
The officers ushered the whole group into a separate room for checks and the travellers said their luggage was scanned the Times reported.
One passenger told the group U.K. Lawyers for Israel (UKLFI) they were walking towards the exit when a customs officer appeared and demanded one of the passengers explain what was on his suitcase.
When the man replied that it was an Israeli flag, the customs officer reportedly told all those on the flight to move to a separate room.
One traveller said that the customs officers had told them they could do whatever they wanted.
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P45’s all round.
The person in overall control of these staff has to be the first to go and then anybody else involved.
How much bloody lower can we sink?
Just like what the Police are turning into, a Woke Paramilitary group.
Indeed.
I’m sure Germans were “harassed” when they travelled abroad in the 1930’s.
Generally they weren’t: they were not terrorists. Big distinction. We are also talking about Jews here, who, once again, as you clearly display, face the excuse “It’s only Jews”.
Generally speaking your comments are good: this one shows what you really are. It’s only Jews, get over it, sound familiar?
In fact a great example is Bert Troutman who was a German who married an English girl and stayed in England after the war. He broke his neck in a collision playing for Manchester City. To this day Troutman is revered by City fans. Despite a broken neck in the 1956 FA Cup Final Troutman played on as City won 3-1.
https://www.mancity.com/features/trautmann-story/
It doesn’t matter whether they are Jews, Hindus, Pastafarians or whatever. Their government is “terrorising” the indigenous population.
Stop hiding behind the “antiSemitism” slur and call out genocidal intent wherever it comes from and by whom.
The United States detained at least 11,000 ethnic Germans, overwhelmingly German nationals between the years 1940 and 1948.
Japs too after Perl Harbour false flag.
I am clearly missing the point of your comments.
Harassment is never acceptable. You cannot use equivalence with respect to this.
It is certainly not for our boarder security to behave like this to anyone. They should stick to the legal guidance given. Nor should any boarder security person be wearing politically inspired badges.
CCTV should show whether this actually occurred. Manchester Airport would, one assumes, not be short of this.
It should be easy enough to see what happened.
If this happened early in 2024 then why are we nearly into July and it hasn’t been resolved?
Hear, hear.
Not relevant. No comparison. So did we until their loyalty was established. We were at war with Germany. Doh!
I said 1930’s meaning before we were at war with them.
I wonder if the Met police were allowed to wear these pro-terrorism badges how many would, because these are the very same nobtard bigots who are targeting and bullying British patriots in London. Same class of people, different flag and uniform, that’s all. Triggered to the max and abusing their authority.
Meanwhile, I think this is a fairly accurate summary, in my opinion;
”When a fly falls into a cup of coffee:
The Italian – throws the cup, breaks it, and walks away in a fit of rage.
The German – carefully washes the cup, sterilizes it, and makes a new cup of coffee.
The Frenchman – takes out the fly and drinks the coffee.
The Chinese – eats the fly and throws away the coffee.
The Russian – drinks the coffee with the fly, since it comes with no extra charge.
The Israeli – sells the coffee to the Frenchman, sells the fly to the Chinese, sells the cup to the Italian, drinks a cup of tea, and uses the extra money to invent a device that prevents flies from falling into coffee.
The Palestinian – blames the Israeli for the fly falling into his coffee, protests the act to the UN as an act of aggression, takes a loan from the European Union to buy a new cup of coffee, uses the money to purchase explosives, and then blows up the coffee house where the Italian, Frenchman, Chinese, German and Russian are all trying to explain to the Israeli that he should give his cup of tea to the Palestinian.”
https://x.com/ImtiazMadmood/status/1804817973552509017
There is a pub near us, great Pub, micro brewery, excellent beers. It’s run by some retired guys. All great and we have supported them from the day they opened.
Today they have a “Support Palestine” music festival on.
Would they have supported the IRA in murdering children back in their 1970’s teens? So why support terrorists now.
It’s like the paradox of, say, feminists that actually go all out in supporting the anti-West/pro-Islamist situation though. Nobody needs a doctorate in Middle Eastern Affairs to know how females are treat in Islamic nations but they just can’t bring themselves up to speed with reality and accept the facts as they stand. Bit like the ”Queers for Palestine” crowd. How on earth do they reconcile these two opposing standpoints? It’s just completely irrational. They’re obviously more concerned with appearing virtuous and less bothered about coming across as total idiots, so reality on the ground takes a backseat. But that’s the woke mind virus for you. Only seems to effect Leftards though, strangely…
Example;
https://x.com/ImtiazMadmood/status/1803986207589954017
Nail very securely hit Mog. They make as much sense as Turkey’s making wish lists for Christmas and going to bed early.
IRA and Palestine are not equivalent.
Ireland and Palestine are.
Would you have been offended if you’d seen a sign saying support Ireland?
Some of you may have never seen the phrase, maybe forgotten it, but is more prevalent now than it was in 1933.
They are only Jews.
Labour intend to immediately recognise Palestine as a State.
They are only Jews
Labour intend to take away all womens rights.
They are only women.
They are only Jews. What about they are only Arabs?
Whenever I comment on these sacred pages how the number of Palestinian dead after 7th October exceeds Israeli deaths by what, a factor of hundred now, readers give me a far higher negative than positive rating.
So I think They are only Arabs is far more appropriate in today’s world.
And, of course, customs officials should not be wearing political badges. But, when I recently landed at Edinburgh airport from Germany, Scottish customs officials were singling out Chinese arrivals and making them wait in a group, for whatever reason. I only thought it was a bit odd that they were only being singled out by appearances and not by having their tickets checked. But they are only Chinese.
Off-T.
Frank Haviland with a suitably disrespectful look at current election shenanigans.
“Without much chance of electoral victory, Rishi Sunak appears determined to salvage something from the situation, and is clearly focussed on reducing Tory emissions by getting them down to Net Zero seats. Speaking off-the-record to The Frank Report, Sunak confirmed he did in fact instruct ministers to have a flutter on the date of the general election, it’s just the majority are so incompetent they got the date wrong.”
https://thenewconservative.co.uk/the-frank-report-lxxviii/
https://thenewconservative.co.uk/dont-be-deceived-by-starmer/
And here is Frank Haviland performing a very necessary demolition job on Kneel.
“From the cringeworthy kneeling to Black Lives Matter back in 2020, to his recent Islamophobia love-in with Sadiq Khan, it’s hard to conclude that Starmer is ever likely to put British interests first.”
Nothing that Nancy Pelosi didn’t do, she even had trading trackers because of her activities. We still don’t know what happened to that naked man with her husband in her house.
Just a reminder to everyone. All this Israel Palestine shit stirring is a psyop.
Whatever is happening there is obviously real. But all the shit stiring to make everyone here and everywhere care so much is a total psyop.
Everyone getting so energised by the Israel Palastine conflict should ask themselves: why do I care so much? Unless you are Israeli, or Palestinian or have direct close family/friends from there, you are almost certainly being used as a useful idiots.
I’m assuming the DS is also acting as a useful idiot.
Just saying.
There are lots of things to care about in the world. A lot of misery. A lot. If you really want to go looking.
I sort of agree. However, there are a few reasons why we may want to pay attention to this, or ways in which it affects us. Firstly we have a Jewish population in the UK, and also a substantial Muslim population, and others who feel strongly about what’s happening. While it may be blown up out of proportion, there is some unrest in the UK that may not be healthy. Though perhaps that is all the more reason to ignore it. Secondly the UK government acts abroad in certain ways, perhaps favouring Israel and disfavouring other neighbouring countries. If they do this in our name and with our money, we should consider why. Thirdly and allied to point 2, some people think that “Zionists” are causing a disproportionate amount of trouble in the wider world – I’m not saying this is true or false, but that seems to be a commonly held view in some circles, and perhaps important enough for us to ponder.
All of that said, I am no further forward than I was a few months ago in having any kind of firm opinion on the whole subject, so perhaps you are right. There are many pressing issues closer to home.
Well surely it isn’t difficult for any right-thinking person to consistently oppose terrorism whilst simultaneously supporting the right of the only democratic nation in the Middle East to defend itself against attacks from its hostile neighbours. There are around 57 majority Muslim nations in the world and I don’t know how many of them are actual democracies without doing a search first. Nor do I know, out of the ones who may qualify, which ones have equal rights for everybody, be they female, homosexual, other ( or no ) religions etc, but I’m not feeling very confident any would be on a par with Israel. So for me ”having any kind of firm opinion on the whole subject” is quite the no-brainer. As regards terrorism: if you don’t condemn it you condone it, whether it’s happening on a different continent or not.
By instinct I am probably more pro Israel and certainly not a fan of how majority Islamic countries seem to turn out, but I think the situation is probably complex with some right and wrong on both sides. I’d need to understand more about the recent history of the region and the foundation of Israel and the various territorial changes since. I am also a supporter of freedom of speech and protest but equally concerned about the kinds of demonstrations we have seen in the UK. But I also agree with stewart that this could be a divisive psyop and we have issues closer to home to worry about. I’m also against the kind of mass immigration we’ve had and will continue to have, for much the same reasons I believe you are against it.
Really? Impossible noy to have an opinion or not be sure?
“You are either with me or against me” is the rallying cry of people that want to have a fight and won’t be denied.
Well unless you’re operating in a different realm where there’s another definition of the word ”terrorism” ( or does terrorism exist on a spectrum to you? ) then I think for anybody with a conscience this is a black and white issue. Any and every sane person would oppose terrorism, period. Coming across as quite the terrorist apologist there, I think. But then you did previously state that the trans ideology isn’t an attack on female sex-based rights, so this is hardly a surprise to me. Nail, colours, mast.
Well,as they say, one man’s terrorist is another’s freedom fighter.
And on this particular issue some claim Hamas terrorises Israelis and others say the Israeli state terrorises the Palestinian population.
So depending on who you ask it could be a case of groups of terrorists terrorising each other.
But no doubt you know who is right and those who disagree with you are completely wrong and apologists for terrorists and all in all bad people, right?
How lucky to be so unequivocally right.
Only apologists for terrorist atrocities would say that. Sounding a wee bit butt-hurt there, aren’t we?
As always, I’m unapologetically opinionated in my posts. Deal with it or cry harder. Makes no odds to me.
You sound like an angry woman with a big chip on her shoulder. To me anyway.
Interesting, the deliberate misconstruing of my posts to suit your own agenda. Not angry at all. But then I don’t have amnesia and recall you’re not very tolerant of women who are forthright and opinionated, are you? We irritate you, don’t we? It’s all ”free speech!”, until somebody of the opposite sex says something you disagree with or challenges you on what you post. As I said, agree or disagree with me, I’ll still be back whenever, posting whatever I please.
I’m not into one-upmanship, because I don’t have a fragile ego or something to prove, but I can see it means an awful lot to you so go right ahead. Be my guest.
Here is what I don’t really get. Why would you get so angry and aggressive at the idea that someone should be able to not have a clear opinion on who is wrong and right in a violent fight?
To the point of digging up past grievances and going full on ad hominem?
Why do you care so much?
’How many of them are actual democracies.’ Are you living in an ‘actual democracy Mogwi?
Well surely it isn’t difficult for any right-thinking person to consistently oppose terrorism whilst simultaneously supporting the right of the only democratic nation in the Middle East to defend itself against attacks from its hostile neighbours.
Which group of Semites in the Middle East dominates which other group of Semites there is absolutely none of my business.
The fact that you have no firm opinion is, to me, a sign that you probably see the world for what it is. Confusing, nuanced, full of contradictions.
And my point, really, is that we are constantly being pushed to form a firm opinion and take a side when rhe sensible, probably most rational thing is to stay clear of the whole thing and let them sort it out.
Why the hell should we have to form an opinion or care.particularly. it should have nothing to do with us. And if it does is because we are meddling in something we shouldn’t.
Indeed – though I suppose someone with a firm opinion might want the UK to actively support one side or the other.
I get that. I just wish people with strong opinions about things wouldn’t drag whole nations into acting on their strong opinions.
If someone has a strong opinion on what’s going on somewhere in the world, they should suit up and go fight there, as some undoubtedly do, and leave the rest of us be.
Yup I agree
I guess it partly depends on whether you think a nation should be trying to influence what happens outside its borders, with soft or hard power or a combination of both. We try, but I’m not sure much good comes of it. Monro would probably differ.
That’s for sure.
God help us all with the sort of people working with their discrimination heads on. Even if they are a minority of sad confused and ignorant group.
So, the story is Flight passengers have their luggage checked by customs officials, right? Considering that this was an El Al flight from Ben Gurion airport they were certainly not the only Jews on this plane.
Very old airport photo with passengers wearing face masks.
Is it likely that Israeli passengers would have their national flag plastered all over their luggage?
What a load of ……well you know. So does any wearing a crucifix get mistreated at the airport, any person wearing another piece of religious jewellery or club affiliation lapel pin get mistreated.
honestly how about reporting about the cost of living, the financial degeneration of a once up and coming country and all the reasons why.
continuously writing articles like this further divides people. Why would this outlet choose to mimic MSM’s mission. It makes no sense.
Give an Official a bit of power and they will take as much as they want.