JERUSALEM (VINnews) — In another example of apparently false disparaging of charedi travellers, an Israeli female journalist complained Tuesday that she had been asked to move from her seat because charedi men wished to sit together and not next to a woman.
The journalist, Neria Kraus of Israel’s Channel 13, published a picture of the charedim who were sitting there and claimed that they were “trying to move me from place to place because I’m a woman.” Kraus also complained that the United Airlines staff were not doing anything to help her and told her that the flight was delayed because of her.
In reality, the charedi person involved is a well-known Baal Chesed from Brooklyn who would never dream of asking a woman to move because of her gender. The person in question was interviewed by Daniel Amram on arrival in Brooklyn and explained that his son had simply wished to sit next to his friend and had asked the journalist who was sitting in an aisle seat if she could move to another aisle seat so that he could talk with his friend. Initially Kraus was willing to listen but when the man took of his cap and she saw that he was wearing a Kippah, she started yelling and screaming about the discrimination.
A stewardess came over to Kraus and told her that if there was discrimination on the flight, the entire flight would be cancelled.
While Kraus’s version of events could have theoretically occurred, the fact that she refused to release a video clip, instead simply publishing a picture of the charedim, harms the veracity of her version.
After Amram published the interview with the other traveller, several responders asked Kraus to apologize for her behavior, but to date she has not offered any retraction.
Source: VosIzNeias
