For those who hate Israel — and their number seems to grow pari passu with the grotesquely inaccurate and unfair coverage of the war in Gaza — it’s not enough to scream in public “From the river to the sea/Palestine will be free,” which means, not everyone understands, that the Jewish state must be annihilated, its people expelled or killed, so that a twenty-third Arab state can be formed. Nor is it enough to accuse Israel of “genocide” with these new “No to Genocide” chants and signs. No, everyone connected to Israel, every last person who can be connected to the Jewish state, must be hounded, harassed, humiliated. At the Eurovision Contest, supposedly a non-political song competition, the Israeli entrant was forbidden from singing a song that made allusion to the October 7 attack. You see, that would be an unfair subject to bring up. Why, it might even lead some people to sympathize a bit more with Israel, and that would never do. So the song was out, and another one, more anodyne in content, had to be substituted.
Now two Israeli women who were at Schiphol Airport in Amsterdam to take a flight to Tel Aviv found themselves being berated and cursed and publicly humiliated by an airport security guard, not for anything they had done, but because they were Israelis. The airport apologized to the women for their travail, but did not reveal what, if anything, will happen to their vituperative and enraged tormentor. More on this tale can be found here: “Netherlands Airport Apologizes After Security Worker Harassed, Humiliated Former Hamas Hostage,” by Troy O. Fritzhand, Algemeiner, April 9, 2024:
The main international airport in the Netherlands issued an apology on Monday after two Israeli women, including a former Hamas hostage, were allegedly harassed and publicly humiliated by a security worker.
“It is clear that the two passengers did not feel that they were treated appropriately. We regret and apologize for this,” Amsterdam’s Schiphol Airport said in a statement. “We will make sure that such situations do not happen again in the future.”
The best way for Schiphol Airport’s management to “make sure such situations do not happen in the future” is not to let the security worker in question off with a reprimand and a warning, but to fire him forthwith and make sure that everyone at the airport knows of the dispensation of his case. Anything less will not be enough to dissuade others similarly unhinged by hate.
The incident in question took place on Friday when the Israeli women, one of whom was kidnapped by Hamas terrorists on Oct. 7 and later freed from captivity in Gaza, were attempting to go through airport security for their El Al flight back to Israel. When handing over their Israeli passports for inspection, the airport security officer, reportedly of Pakistani origin and Muslim faith, approached them in an aggressive way.
Are you, as an airline passenger, relieved to know that some of the people entrusted with your security, which may be endangered as in the past airline passengers were endangered by a long series of attacks by Muslims — the blowing up of a plane over Lockerbie, and several others over the Mediterranean, the hijacking of an El Al plane to Entebbe, and of others forced to land in the Jordanian desert where they were blown up, the hijacking a Sabena plane to Ben Gurion airport where the terrorists threatened to blow it up along with its 100 passengers, unless their demands for a prisoner release were met, and so on – may hate you and wish you ill, or are you, rather, quite alarmed?
Those attacks on airplanes and airline passengers constitute quite a list. So one wonders if it really makes sense to have a Muslim security guard monitoring passengers at a Western airport. Presumably the management of Schiphol Airport wants to demonstrate that it trusts its Muslim security personnel, but must it do so when lives are potentially at stake? Would a Muslim passenger with a ticket from Schiphol to Tel Aviv receive the kind of scrutiny from the Muslim security guard in question that he deserves? Or would he receive only a cursory inspection from a sympathetic fellow Muslim now working as a security guard? Is it wrong to worry?
The officer singled them out for being in the wrong security line, told them to move, and then threatened to fine them, Israeli news website Ynet reported. The worker then proceeded to remove them from the line and began to scream at them, reportedly making derogatory remarks about the fact that they are Israeli….
Just imagine what would have happened if the guard had been a Dutch man and a Christian, who singled out Muslim passengers for being in the wrong security line, told them to move, and then threatened to fine them, after which he “removed them from the line and began screaming at them” and “making derogatory remarks about the fact that they were Muslims”? He would have been fired at once, without any appeal. Why shouldn’t the same happen to the Muslim guard found to be mistreating those two Israeli women? Or are there to be different rules for Jews and Muslims? You know, alas, the answer to that.
The security worker’s behavior was outrageous. A mere reprimand will not do. He needs to be appropriately punished — fired, without any hope of appeal. He is not only a danger to Israeli passengers, but also a threat to Jews of every nationalism whose mere presence might enrage him. He may be more than that — someone so consumed with hatred for the Infidels, “the most vile of created beings,” that out of feelings of deep solidarity and sympathy with fellow Muslims – the doctrine of al-wala’ wal-bara’ (“loyalty” and “disavowal”) — he might be reluctant to pull aside a fellow Muslim for a thorough security check. I do not know why so many airports in the Western world — I have seen this for myself — have in recent years noticeably increased the hiring of Muslims as security guards,TSA agents, hijabbed ticket agents, luggage handlers, and so on. Is it a way of virtue signaling — “we want to show the world that we have no reason to mistrust Muslims any more than we would anyone else, despite what we know you are taught in the Qur’an and hadith” and despite the more than 45,000 terrorist attacks by Muslims since 9/11?
Let’s see if the administration at Schiphol Airport does the right thing or if, in a spirit of craven surrender, it chooses to let the Muslim security guard keep his job.
SC says
What a shame no one gutted him on the spot.
Samer says
Please spit on the ground whenever you hear the name Holland or Netherlands. The reason for this is the stupidity, hypocracy and malice of the ruling establishment and its affiliated parties in this European country. This institution and its parties have flooded the country over the last decade with hundreds of thousands of Muslim refugees and immigrants, without taking into consideration the danger these Muslim immigrants pose to the safety and well-being of non-Muslims. My sincere advice to the Israelis is to boycott this hypocritical country called the Netherlands.
James Lincoln says
The Israeli women need to file a very big lawsuit against the responsible party who controls the Schiphol Airport in Amsterdam.
OLD GUY says
And we have open borders allowing these muslim/islamic men into our countries WHY? And don’t tell me DIVERSITY thats B.S.
Lookmann says
Only Geert Wilders can set things right, if he is allowed to become PM