Senator Ted Cruz of Texas has warned the TSA to be ready to answer some tough questions from him over numerous alleged antisemitic incidents that TSA agents have been engaged in at JFK Airport in New York.
The antisemitism and discrimination of visibly Jewish people at the airport has long been alleged, but has almost never received coverage in the press. This has allowed the incidents to continue unabated, with TSA agents unabashedly discriminating against, shaming, berating, and acting outright rude – but only to Jews.
This disturbing pattern gained significant attention after Republican political strategist Liz Mair wrote about it in a Twitter thread on Wednesday, in which she said she was also discriminated against – not because she’s Jewish (she is not), but because TSA agents mistook her surname for being Jewish.
Dozens of Jews have since publicly stated their own experiences with antisemitism from TSA agents at JFK Airport, with many demanding answers from the federal agency.
Community activist Yossi Gestetner chimed in, demanding that officials look into the allegations.
“This is a SHOCKING and SICKENING story and echos what a business associate reported to me a few weeks ago as observed by his parents also at JFK,” Gestetner tweeted.
“Too many visibly Jewish people suffered in silence from this in recent weeks and months (while reading in the Times that they are NY’s biggest problem). People just want to be on their way and not make a scene which may cause them to be detained too,” he added, and urged people to share their own experiences.
Senator Cruz commented on Mair’s thread on Thursday, writing, “Deeply disturbing and totally unacceptable if true. @TSA, please be ready to have some very candid conversations about this in the coming weeks and months.”
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Why do we have to have the Republican Senator form Texas to take up our cause? WHAT HAPPENED TO OUR DEMOCRAT SENATORS RIGHT HERE IN NEW YORK, CHUCK SCHUMER AND KRISTEN GILLABRAND????!!! WE PAY THEIR STINKEN SALARY! DON’T THEY CARE ABOUT THEIR JEWISH CONSTITUENTS?!
If this is an issue, TSA needs to be called to task. They were doing this to the shvartzas, you would see holy hell breaking out.
Hashem is showing us a repeat in History….nice to see non jews being treated awfully……makes me smile…America is trash and those living there are combustible….come home….
Interesting. New York has two senators, both Democrats. Schumer is supposedly Jewish. Not a peep from him. Gillibrand is not. But these are both senators from New York. I won’t hold my breath until they weigh in. It requires a Republican to pursue this matter. The NY senators are not upset by anti-Semitism, and will never engage in investigating a government agency that seems to be participating in this wave of anti-Semitism.
Sara Rifka:
The only repeat is the Zionist idol. Rav Miller writes that there were people singing HaTikva as they passed through the infamous gates of Auschwitz.
America has been a medinah shel chesed, as famously stated by Rav Moshe Feinstein. The Zionist shmad State, on the other hand, has always been about shmad and is a gross rebellion against Hashem. So, as the Chazon Ish wrote, one day we will wake up to find that the Zionist State simply isn’t there anymore.
what about our shomer israel Chuck Schumer or even the worse useless Gillibrand who comes to Brooklyn maybe once a year.
The worst and most useless politician in the ENTIRE US congress is a woman representing all of Flatbush and most of Boro Park named Yvette Clarke.
It takes a non Jewish Republican senator from Florida to stick up for Jews in NY.
Because that filthy treasonous so called Jewish senator Schumer he and his DemonRat party has morphed into a bona fide treasonous America hating,Israel hating and Jew hating Marxist Party.
DemonRats are a thousand times bigger danger forJews than all the so called extreme right wingers.
And the safe hating stupid Jews overwhelmingly keep voting for these antisemitic Nazi monsters.( yes that includes that filthy rat Schumer)
here’s an opportunity for an investigative reporter to win a pulitzer prize! just record how two passengers are treated, one named “goldberg” and another named “cartwright”. it shouldn’t be too difficult to set up. and then maybe ask the aclu, the adl, and a few other “civil rights” organizations for their comments.
With Purim just behind us, the message is clear, all who want to listen.
Hakatan, key word “HAS” Been
These TSA agents and the other antisemitic personnel that these experiences being described are attributed to, you’ll quickly notice, are by and large members of the black community — which for many decades has displayed the most openly hostile anti-Jewish attitudes and toleration for antisemitism of any American demographic, by a long-shot.
@Sara Rifka
The gemara in pesachim says about people who speak in foul terms that it is cause to look into their Yichus…
I assume and hope that there is a different explanation in your case. But you would be wise to not cause a stir in the first place.
Hashem is maybe hinting to us that we should not feel very safe here in USA.
Thank you Hashem 1,000 times that at the present moment the issue is exactly this article and the situation is not more scary. Hashem is saying “wake up”. We need to seriously and sincerely daven for the real true honest Mashiach to appear. Take a look-guys- thousands of Ukrainians non-Jewish ran to Israel, so maybe we should try that.
Also you know very well that New York has a serious RAT EXPLOSION like the Tzfardeah in the 10 Makos.
You hit one rat and bingo 10 more appear.
I never ever saw even one rat in Eretz Yisroel.
HaKatan, that is because on the day we wake up we will see that a Torah Medina has replaced it…