Pro-Israel nonprofit group The Lawfare Project found multiple instances of Israeli travellers being refused passage on the airline purely because of their nationality
October 25, 2017 16:38
Earlier this year two University of Minnesota researchers analysed airline maps and found that several Middle-East-based airlines, including Kuwait Airways, used ones with Israel removed.
Now a new investigation ordered by German Federal Minister of Transport Alexander Dobrindt will examine whether Kuwait Airways’ established policy of refusing to fly Israeli passengers violates aviation law.
This is separate to already in-progress legal proceedings started by US-based pro-Israel nonprofit legal group The Lawfare Project in support of an Israeli traveller who booked a ticket with Kuwait Airways to fly from Frankfurt to Bangkok, only to be refused at the last minute when it emerged that he was an Israeli citizen.
In October, an Israeli-Arab social media star, Nuseir Yassi, posted a Facebook video about his experience of being refused to board a Kuwait Airways flight from New York to India because of his Israeli passport. The video has received over 700,000 views.
