Dear Friends,
By now I am sure most of us know about the issue with Delta Airlines
deciding to partner with Saudi Arabia's airline whose anti-Semitic policy
bans Jews and Israelis from flying their airline.
Flyers will have to show passports and to prove that they are not Jewish.
Does this sound like something out of Nazi Germany?
This time we must fight back!
Silence and appeasement is the friend of bullies. We cannot accept this.
Today we Jews and our friends are going to make Delta feel this where it
hurts the most........in their pockets.
We are calling on everyone to sell their Delta stock.
We are calling on everyone to divest themselves of Delta credit cards.
We are calling on everyone to cancel their flights on Delta...and to book
other airlines for travel.
Make sure you are not flying on any of their partner airlines. Below is a
list of partners within Sky Team.
Delta Airlines ....and Saudi Arabia Airlines ban Jews from flying
List of Sky Team Partners
Please forward this to as many people as possible.
Letter from Rabbi A. Cooper to President of Delta Airlines
Date: Wed, 29 Jun 2011 23:12:24 -0400 (EDT)
OUTSTANDING letter from Rabbi A. Cooper to President of Delta Airlines!
Is Delta Airlines Letting Itself Be Hijacked By Religious Bigots?
An Open Letter to Delta Airlines CEO Richard Anderson:
Pardon me for communicating with you this way, but you fobbed off inquiries
by others to your Customer Care e-mail department. Since I represent 400,000
constituent families of the Simon Wiesenthal Center, I thought it would be
more appropriate to communicate this way and let the rest of the American
people in on an outrageous situation.
What would happen if a leading U.S. carrier voluntarily allows itself to be
hijacked by bigots in order to open a new market? For example, what if it
entered into an agreement with a foreign airline that would see to it that
no blacks or Catholics or gays boarded code-shared flights destined to reach
the partner's home nation?
I think you know the answer.
Yet, that is what Delta Airlines appears to have done when your company
announced plans to add Saudi Arabian Airlines to your SkyTeam Alliance.
You see, under their rules, they require that Delta ban Jews and holders of
Israeli passports from boarding flights from New York or Washington bound
for Jeddah.
As a Delta spokesperson Kathy Johnston so elegantly put it to customer
Jeffrey Lovitsky:
"Delta must also comply with all applicable laws in every country it serves
and by the same token passengers are responsible to obtain the necessary
travel documents required for entry into another country prior to their day
of travel she wrote. "If a passenger travels without proper documents, the
passenger may be denied entry into that country and our airline may be
fined. Delta assumes responsibility for ensuring that each passenger
boarding our aircraft has the proper documents for travel to their ticketed
destination."
We certainly wouldn't want Delta to be fined for failing to enforce the
racist, religious apartheid laws of Saudi Arabia. And our community is
certainly deeply appreciative of the advice to contact the U.S. State
Department -- which is a polite way of telling us to go away and leave you
alone to make your money in peace.
Mr. Anderson, I know that Delta cannot make any sovereign nation change its
laws, but did anyone hold a gun to your head to cut this deal? Did you utter
a word of protest during your negotiations with your partners over the
Judenrein policies of Saudi Arabia? Did you ask Secretary of State Clinton
to try to intervene in this matter?
I'll tell you what the Simon Wiesenthal Center is doing. We are drawing a
straight line to the chairwoman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee,
Ileana Ros-Lehtinen to ask that Congress to check into the deal to see which
laws Delta may have broken. But what is already clear is that Delta has
broken the trust of American Jewry and degraded the cherished right of
Religious freedom.
Mr. Anderson, I will be happy to fly to your Atlanta headquarters to discuss
this matter with you but I won't be flying Delta to get there.
Sincerely,
Rabbi Abraham Cooper
Delta #6340597357
Rabbi Abraham Cooper is associate Dean of the Simon Wiesenthal Center in Los
Angeles.
