A passenger on Friday’s Delta flight 1245 from Boston to West Palm Beach shared a photo of a flight attendant wearing a Palestine flag pin. This has seemed to be more common among Delta employees than other airlines. It violates their uniform standards but they also haven’t spoken to enforcing those – whether because they want to avoid controversy amongst cabin crew during a unionization drive, or out of fear they would alienate customers at their Detroit hub.
Hey @Delta – did you add Palestine as a new summer route?
Your customers on a Boston to West Palm Beach flight yesterday were perplexed to see your flight attendant adorning a flag of Palestine pin. pic.twitter.com/Ia79COL2ea
— StopAntisemitism (@StopAntisemites) July 6, 2024
I’ve written about a Delta flight attendant with a Palestine flag pin a few weeks ago. Indeed, several Delta employees have been spotted wearing Palestine pins, such as this one at Washington’s National airport.
Last time we checked @Delta, your airlines is American based with no flights to “Palestine”.
Why is your employee at Ronald Reagan Airport wearing a Palestinian flag? pic.twitter.com/qyguQ7KLWn
— StopAntisemitism (@StopAntisemites) May 1, 2024
It is possible to wear a Palestinian flag and believe you’re advocating for two states. That isn’t usually what it means. Spain, Ireland and Norway now recognize a Palestinian State. The Catalan independence movement would like a word!
The Biden administration backing off of support for Israel is largely a function of Michigan being a battleground state, and concerns of Muslim voters staying home. Delta has a hub in Detroit, and the city’s Dearborn suburb has the largest Muslim concentration and largest mosque in North America.
After JetBlue called the cops and banned a Jewish passenger who complained about a flight attendant wearing a Palestine pin, the airline updated its uniform policy to ban pins they have not approved.
Delta, on the other hand, has not spoken out on what’s already uniform violations. The airline might have a problem with an important local constituency if it were to do so. But flight attendants are clearly not supposed to wear pins that take any position other than an official Delta position. Unlike JetBlue, they didn’t even need to change their policy over this.
There’s a real concern with front line airline employees voicing political positions and aiming those at passengers. The issue is asymmetric speech. Airline employees exercise power over passengers – power over whether they’ll board and fly, or whether they’ll be considered “disruptive” for expressing their own contrary opinions. And bringing politics into the cabin is already enough of a problem with passengers.
Whatever happened to when people would compartmentalize their personal life from their work life? Keep who you support politically and political causes to yourself. No one ever changed their opinion on these matters by virtue of another individual’s advertising.
Maybe he is just a nice young man that is personally opposed to genocide, Apartheid, and ethnic cleansing.
I wish more murikans were this enlightened. But I think they call his behavior ‘woke’ now.
I thought you had to wear a mask to show support for Palestinian Terrorists.
I didn’t know what a Pakistan flag even looked like.
This pin is more obvious then other photos I have seen.
K Helldoge, stop talking about those filthy dog Palestinians like that.
Wonder how that guy would enjoy living in Palestine?
I wouldn’t enjoy living in the war zone that is Palestine or any other war zone. And yet I will not set aside my humanity to justify barbarism toward people just because they may be viewed by anyone as “the other” and live in a place where I wouldn’t want to live.
GUWonder and Helldoge, thank you for your gentle humanity.
Maybe time for Jews to boycott Delta until this is clarified. I bet they will miss our Benjamins more than Detroit $
I think this employee did not deserve to be doxxed for wearing a Palestinian flag pin. Whatever your beliefs are, you are risking his safety and his livelihood by doing something like this. This is shameful behavior that should not be tolerated and Delta should speak up against this type of behavior directed at their employees.
Protesting genocide should not be controversial. Some may say there is controversy of whether a genocide is taking place, but all evidence points to a strong likelihood, and if not they just have really terrible aim and shouldn’t be allowed to operate weapons with such poor guidance systems.
@Sahamani
Actually, it’s the flight attendant who is “risking his safety and his livelihood”.
He obviously wants attention and he’s getting it.
Sometimes in this life, your choices have consequences. Choose wisely.
CHRIS is an advocate of illegal violence. CHRIS’s support for the anti-American January 6th insurrectionists is only the tip of that illegal violence-loving iceberg. The international corollary to the illegal violence-loving is support for the war crime methods of the rogue Netanyahu regime.
Funny because he looks like the kind of guy who would get thrown off of a roof in Palestine…
This is why Delta has a policy (sadly unenforced) against political pins. If you’re OK with the Palestine pin, how would you feel if a FA wore an Israel pin? Or a pin that was pro-life or pro-choice (depending on your position on abortion). How about a Trump pin? Delta made the right choice banning these – they just need to enforce it.
Hamas in Israeli-occupied territory threw some anti-Hamas Palestinians off the roofs. Hamas and Netanyahu shared a joint interest in doing that at the time, and so it shouldn’t be a surprise that even many years later — it was only a couple of years ago — that the Netanyahu regime got into begging Qatar to get back to funding Hamas for the rogue Likudnik-led government.
It’s laughable people are sensitive to these pins. Let the man enjoy his freedom. He’s not harming anyone, other than offending some entitled person. Don’t be that guy.
@Ed
So you’d be okay with sporty here wearing a swastika pin?
The FA’s pin is allowed per the uniform guidelines. — “The single exception is a small pin equivalent to a piece of iewelry and no larger than the Delta service award pin.”
It is a flag pin and many FAs choose to wear their country’s or nationality’s flag as a pin. The passenger is the one making it out to be a political statement and chose to be offended by it. And then started a witch hunt.
And shame on you for reposting that FA’s picture. You are no better than the passenger who took the picture!
@Noyb
EVERYONE knows that wearing a Palestinian flag is a lightning rod right now. Everyone……including this knucklehead. That’s precisely why he did it. I wonder what his extracurricular activities during the summer of 2020 were as he seems like the type to be a shitstirrer rather than a useful member of society.
Actions have consequences.
CHRIS playing the usual role of the “white nationalist” types who have moved on from the KKK mentality that prioritized hate against African-Americans, Jews, and Catholics and instead have “graduated” to have their prioritized hate target be Muslims, “black” and “brown” people, and those who oppose the right-wing Christianist, Islamist and Judaist wackos. Just waiting for CHRIS to moan yet again about the contributions of George Soros on behalf of liberal representative democracy and humanity.
Oh my Lord call the police!!! Good for them for speaking up against genocide!
The rela problem in US airlines is the attitude od the entitled staff and how low customer service has gone down compared to the rest of the world. Would be better to jusge that… after all that is what you are supoosed ro write about. Your personal political agenda is just clickbait, a filler.
I love this blog but hate reading GU’s comments that spew nonsense. GU is what scares me about people wanting power these days.
Like the fool who thinks herself/himself/themself wise, Hmmmmmm spreads nonsense by claiming sense to be nonsense without being able to make the case objectively.
So… Someone shows up against an ongoing horrible genocide by wearing a pin, and you consider this offensive news? Alrighty then…..
Maybe just stick to pushing credit cards
“Maybe he is just a nice young man that is personally opposed to genocide, Apartheid, and ethnic cleansing.”
Or, maybe he’s a terrorist supporting fascist who is personally in favor of the October 7th kidnappings and rapes of innocent women and children, and wants to cleanse the Middle East of Jews. See? That works both ways, and in ‘Murica we are allowed to take either position.
Personally, the flight attendant needs to be disciplined in some way, even if only a stern talking to, for violating American Airlines’ policies. I’m a schoolteacher, and we have serious rules about what we wear and pace in our classrooms due to the influence we have over children. If we’re going to put a pro-this flag up, then we had darned well better put up an anti-that flag up to balance things out. Otherwise, it looks like the person in a position of authority is taking a position and trying to proseletyze that position onto our students. What if a passenger had voiced his disagreement with the Palestine pin? Could the flight attendant have made his day miserable? kicked him from the plane? You can see where this goes. It’s a slippery slope argument, but a valid one.
I meant Delta, not AA. Sorry, I got the airline wrong in my prior comment.
This article is false. Delta has said repeatedly that the crew members were following the dress code as it was then. Why don’t you take your Islamaphobic article down or correct it?
@Georgia Pritchett – if you actually read what was written, I write that Delta says the dress code was being followed, I also shared the dress code itself which clearly wasn’t being followed. Delta is threading a needle here which is the point.