An Israeli diplomat says an Uber driver in Chicago yelled and threw him out of the car when he answered a phone call in Hebrew.
Itay Milner is deputy consul general of Israel to the Midwest.
Milner told The Associated Press he was taking the ride-sharing service home Thursday about 5:30 p.m. when he said “How are you?” in Hebrew into his phone. Milner says the driver cursed at him and told him to “get out now.” Milner says the driver told him it was because he was speaking Hebrew.
Uber tells WBBM-TV the driver can’t access the app while it investigates, and that the company won’t tolerate “any form of discrimination.”
Milner says he doesn’t think the driver should be giving rides because he “can’t control his temper.”
I was just thrown out of an @Uber for speaking in my mother tongue.
I picked up my phone said two words in Hebrew, and driver started yelling at me “get the #@+$ of my car!” That was in the middle of the highway!
Can’t believe this is happening in America pic.twitter.com/5SaFjEM044— Itay Milner (@ItayMilner) May 4, 2018
(AP)
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a muslim.
Well, good morning America. We are in golus. No point fighting against anti-semitism. It’s here to stay. It’s a sign that we’ve got to do teshuva!
I had rides with Uber in NJ and several drivers were Muslims and spoke to me politely and were very nice….
but they were NOT arab muslims, they were from India and pakastan etc…
Had it been the other way around, a Muslim kicked out for speaking Arabic etc the entire media world would have been up….