Jews Trying to Attend D.C. March for Israel Stranded at Airport When Bus Drivers Stage Walkout
“While we are deeply dismayed by the disgraceful action, our resolve to proudly stand with the people of Israel to condemn anti-Semitism and to demand the return of every hostage held by Hamas has never been greater.”
Hundreds of Jewish people who flew to Washington, DC on Tuesday for the Pro-Israel march were stranded at the airport when bus drivers engaged in activism and staged a walkout.
How do people like this live with themselves?
#BREAKING: hundreds of Jewish Detroiters were prevented from attending today’s pro-Israel rally in DC when bus drivers staged a deliberate and malicious walkout.
Nearly 1,000 people flew from Detroit to DC on chartered flights and buses were hired to take them from Dulles Airport… pic.twitter.com/j3BVg0UrGw— Israel War Room (@IsraelWarRoom) November 15, 2023
The Detroit News reports:
Hundreds of Metro Detroit Jews stranded at D.C. airport by ‘malicious’ bus drivers
Hundreds of members of Detroit’s Jewish community flew to Washington, D.C., to march in solidarity with Israel in its war against Hamas in Gaza on Tuesday, but some of them say they had trouble participating because of what they said was a “malicious walk-off” by some bus drivers.
Local members of the Jewish Federation of Detroit and the Jewish Community Relations Council went to the country’s capital to focus the national conversation on freeing the estimated 240 hostages Hamas took from Israel on Oct. 7, said David Kurzmann, senior director of community affairs at the Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Detroit.
But some buses hired to transport “a significant number” of the groups’ participants from Dulles International Airport to the site of the march, according to Kurzmann, failed to appear, which delayed and in some cases prevented their arrival at the event.
“We have learned from the bus company that this was caused by a deliberate and malicious walk-off of drivers. Fortunately, many were able to travel to the march, and we are grateful to the drivers of those buses that arrived,” Kurzmann said in a Tuesday statement.
AG Hamilton has a statement that was given to the travelers:
Friend shares the video of the official statement that was made to the passengers from Detroit:
"The busses that were hired to take over 900 participants from Dulles International Airport to the site of the March failed to appear, delaying the arrival of many or most in our… https://t.co/GPXgt4wkmd pic.twitter.com/9llhC2TFDB
— AG (@AGHamilton29) November 15, 2023
“The busses that were hired to take over 900 participants from Dulles International Airport to the site of the March failed to appear, delaying the arrival of many or most in our group. We have learned that this was caused by a deliberate and malicious walk-off of drivers. Fortunately, many were able to travel to the march and we are grateful to the drivers of those buses that arrived. While we are deeply dismayed by the disgraceful action, our resolve to proudly stand with the people of Israel to condemn anti-Semitism and to demand the return of every hostage held by Hamas has never been greater. This has been confirmed by the bus company of their bus drivers and what has happened”
I know people on the planes. It’s outrageous. Many of these people took the day off work, some of them still stuck there. https://t.co/EIeEBB6wbQ pic.twitter.com/JhlquDVVDw
— AG (@AGHamilton29) November 14, 2023
Sue them out of this solar system https://t.co/cfInhDJuTk
— Fusilli Spock (@awstar11) November 15, 2023
Look man, if you're doing stuff like this, you're an antisemite. You're not challenging Israeli policy, or fighting for a free Palestine, you just hate Jews. https://t.co/UoHFcnJ1hN
— Rafique Tucker 🇺🇸🇮🇱 🇺🇦 (@RiffRaf979) November 15, 2023
Antisemitism in full effect.
Jew left stranded because they were Jewish. pic.twitter.com/gOtL0X2jYh— Viral News NYC (@ViralNewsNYC) November 15, 2023
These people deserve to be named and shamed.
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Name shame and haul into court for breach of service.
You going to sue the bus company? They didn’t deny service. It was the bus drivers.
Who should, reasonably, never work in that arena again. I’d go so far as to say their CDLs should be pulled.
Still falls underneath the bus company, breach of contract.
Just get the names of the bus drivers and dox them….. as the Left does. I am sure that they will be applauded by the Dems for this but at least they will be outed. The bus company can do nothings… the drivers are UNION and union sticks with the Dems.
Exactly
If the bus company doesn’t take proper disciplinary action against all of the drivers that did this, yes they should be made to pay. They were paid for a service and they did not fulfill that contract.
Is the bus company ready to supply names so that drivers can be sued? If the bus company hands over the names, and fires those responsible, leave them out of the lawsuit. If the business runs inference, then sue them. for all trip expenses.
Not just trip expenses, damages, pain and suffering, mental anguish, make it God damn expensive.
Jew hate is well and truly embedded in our society.
Muslims and communists hate Jews. We have plenty of the former and way too many of the latter.
Eventually, we will have to find ways to reduce numbers of these groups..
Use a bit of clandestine cleverness, knowing the history of these groups, to manipulate them into reducing their own numbers……….
“How do these people live with themselves?” Ideology disguised as Islam or leftism.
Truthfully, they don’t want YOU to live. If every Jew and faithful Christian in America died tomorrow, they would cheer. You know they would.
If Israel were wiped out the day after, they would be ecstatic.
It is not possible to amicably co-exist with these people. We need a 2-state solution of our own.
Even then, one state would never leave the other alone.
As long as the Blue state takes all their people with them.
And it is placed somewhere like… Venezuela.
Not two state, drive them out, they can to places where their mindset is common, but probably not welcome.
Islamophobia!
Name the charter bus companies so we know never to patronize them.
Is it the fault of the charter company owners or their drivers? Likely shared. Name the companies and let them explain. Name the drivers and let them explain.
It doesn’t matter whose “fault” it was. The “responsibility” lies with the Company. Name them and refuse to patronize them until they have fired every single driver that walked out and left patrons stranded.
And made those people whole, probably to the tune of $3,000 and up per person.
How different was the arrival of the dictator from China. After removing all the homeless in San Francisco, it was cleaned up and made to appear just as nice as life in China. Xi was welcomed with open arms. Safe and timely transportation was provided to see all the sights.
Comfort and convenience for Xi but not for thee.
“”it was cleaned up””
Including, apparently, any American flags.
I would await to find out if the bus drivers involved are fired. If not, then I would say they are culpable.
It’s pretty clearly a civil rights violation, and also a deprivation of civil liberties. Someone should figure out a way to sue the union for facilitating this. Make them squirm and then make them pay.
Jews in a pro-Jewish march doesn’t seem like a strong political statement.
Idiocy.
You have a whole country of Jews obviously on the Jewish side.
So what. Your comment was idiotic. Not to mention that it’s idiocy to assume that only Jews were there. Not to mention that some Jews actually support Hamas. Not to mention that abstract ideas about what is actually occurring on the ground have next to no value.
Rather thick, aren’t you?
If the antisemitism that has become so rampant on many college campuses and elsewhere did not exist this march wouldn’t happened. This isn’t so much about Israel as it is about combatting the growing antisemitic problem.
While this has been promoted and reported on as a Jewish rally I would hope many non-Jews also showed up to show their support for a people under attack in our own country.
Right, the percentage non-Jews would be key.
Key to what?
The key to whether it’s political support or just Jews complaining.
“Just Jews complaining.” This comment is even more idiotic and evidences callousness. Such a narrow, stilted view. Would you prefer that Jews do a Masada to make a “political” statement? Would that satisfy your criticism?
Every group marches for their own group. The key for a successful march is getting other groups to march for your group, to cut out exactly that effect. “Not just selfish self-interest but some principle involved.”
You are making idiotic assumptions because, in fact, you have no idea of the composition of the marchers, yet you speak as if you counted every one there.
Right, everything depends on the percentage.
Which you do not know, but made idiotic comments anyway, and have no clue why they are idoitic.
Since you are such an expert at “politics,” please enlighten what they should have done.
It’s not an effective story to clickbait that Jews were prevented from attending the march. That’s a Jews Complaining story. Write that Americans were prevented from attending the march.
An irony of course is that the fewer Jews the better, because it raises the percentage of other groups in the march.
Yep, IDIOCY!!
It’s just math.
No, it’s pure idiocy to be addressing math or “political statements” as you are.
You sound like many of the current batch of “professors” that divert from reality to offer nonsense that turns brains to mush.
It’s political and depends on political coverage. Reality was left behind long ago. It’s all narrative. Fortunately narrative has been studied (“If you get married at the end, it’s a comedy; if you die at the end, it’s a tragedy”).
So tell me, hardin, should we be waiting to see when you’re treated that way if you “complain”.
Are those Pelosi fingerprints I see?
Why would we see Pelosi’s fingerprints on this? My question is not rhetorical; I want to understand your reasoning.
Yes, what’s Pelosi got to do with it?
Until the companies are named there’s really no point.
Calm down, people. It’s called freedom of association and right of conscience. Granted, the hamas-ites associations suck, and their conscience is unconscionable, but one has the right to be an insufferable ahole in America.
So, short of punishments for violating public accomodation laws, not sure what is to be done other than hailing a cab.
You should read the article before telling other people their takes are wrong.
The buses had been chartered to take them from the airplane in DC, from the part of the airport where non-terminal planes land. No taxis allowed. No private cars allowed. No walking allowed. No getting on other peoples’ transportation allowed. They were trapped on the plane. Which couldn’t even take off until the people who DID get buses returned.
And employees who don’t want to do their jobs should quit, not stage a sickout.
Even the employer is not entitled to do what was done. Freedom of association means refusing to take a contract, not breaking it at the last minute.
You claim “… a “malicious walk-off” by some bus drivers” means the airline passengers are now hostages of the airlines because alternate transportation is forbidden??
That info does not appear anywhere in this blog post.
The absent bus drivers are aholes, but there is no cause of action against the bus company. What else ya got, sparky?
How do you know there is no cause of action, when there are facts you apparently did not even know?
It was on the news this morning…They couldn’t leave on any other transportation. It was part of the charter deal.
That info does not appear anywhere in this blog post.
Well…
flew from Detroit to DC on chartered flights
These were NOT airlines. They generally do not get to use the terminals.
Generally, you are not allowed to exit an aircraft onto the tarmac of an airport (without a permitted vehicle there to receive you). This is particularly true after 9/11. Access to the tarmac is very restricted at large commercial airports.
The vehicles you can hire to pick you up on the tarmac are required to have the company’s drivers given a background check and given credentials to access the tarmac.
The one item that was in the blog post triggered a whole cascade of information pertinent to the situation. You might not have known that information, but the fact the flight was a charter should have changed your characterization of things. Or at least made you less certain.
I did not realize that the planes were effectively stranded as well. What is the additional cost to the airline for having a plane sit on the ground doing violence to their schedule?
They were chartered aircraft. They are not “schedule carriers”.
They still have a schedule. It seems to me likely that they had another booking for at least one of those planes that was affected by this action.
You fan’t even refuse to take a contract anymore, thanks to things like “Fair Housing” laws.
Try breach of contract combined with discrimination (it’s a public accommodation, I’m betting)?
And it’s a violation of workplace rules – so they should be fired.
And, given the civil rights in this, it could arguably be used to pull the drivers’ CDLs.
I doubt a charter company is a public accommodation. But maybe.
A busing company engaged in interstate transportation? Would certainly expect it to be a public accommodation.
Why would you think that? It’s a charter company. What definition of public accommodation would include it?
(“Interstate” in this case means VA to DC, but presumably its buses go to MD as well, and probably up and down the east coast.)
“It’s called freedom of association” – unless you are a cake baker, etc,, who will sell any cake on the shelf but not design one against his conscience.
There’s no “freedom of association” here. The company was hired to do this. Nothing changed in the circumstances to give them cause to reconsider.
It was the employees who broke the rules. And they are not allowed to refuse to drive those the company has contracted to carry. There are (or should be) consequences for not showing up for work.
If it’s a union issue, then (IMO) the union has violated their contract with the company, and I would fire every union employee and hire non-unionized.
Freedom of association for all went away long, long ago.
how about naming the company involved so that other groups can decide if they wish to use them or not. that is a right as well … if someone gives crappy service I want to know so as to not use them.
Also publish names of the drivers, it is crucial that potential employers know
Neither freedom of association or right of conscience effectively defend how these people were treated…if the courts can force someone to make a cake for a ‘gay’ wedding, then they can certainly force them to fulfill a contract to provide transportation that was entered into without any fraud or manipulation on the part of the vendee.
If the “walk out” occurred in numerous cities for the same reason, it sounds coordinated.
Why would it occur in numerous cities? The rally was in DC, so it only happened at Dulles (and I suppose Reagan).
Buses out of a Connecticut company chartered to drive rally goers to DC, unexpectedly “canceled” the booking.
Ah, I hadn’t heard that. Here is the story. Thanks for alerting me. But there’s no information that in that case it was a driver walk-out. The company said it was a “scheduling error”, which sounds to me like someone antisemite at the company, some time over the past weeks since the booking was made, simply went into the system and canceled it, and nobody knew until Tuesday morning when the buses didn’t show up. In which case there’d be no reason to suspect coordination between that person and the DC drivers.
I hope there will be real and significant consequences for those responsible for the walkout.
Think about it from the opposite point of view. Suppose you were a bus driver working for this company, and you learned that the people you were supposed to pick up were Klansmen in full garb, going to a Klan rally. Would you do the job anyway?
If these drivers have been convinced of the “Palestinian” narrative, that Israel is the aggressor, is committing genocide, that Zionism is an evil ideology that must be uprooted from the world, basically if every “fact” they think they know is the exact opposite of reality, then what they did would make sense. They would still be antisemites, but that is how someone can be a good person and an antisemite at the same time. This is how evil happens; not that many people are evil in their hearts, but good people can be convinced of untruths that make it reasonable for them to do evil things. And since their conscience supports what they’re doing there’s no limit to the evil they will do.
KKK example?
I’d call and put the owned on notice I had quit, like a man.
I wouldn’t keep my mouth shut and sickout, like a proggie coward.
It is less than an 8 hr drive from Detroit to Dc. Right to life marcher do this trek every year. It looks like charter flights. Dulles sucks as a good DC land zone, but a quick Uber to metro should have solved the problem. On the other hand, there is no info on the bus company. At say 50 per bus, that requires 15 bus. Might not seem like a lot, but is a lot of buses when 250 K is marching on DC. How do we know the organizer just did not screw up the logistic? J6 protester are more of victims than this. Pretty stupid the organizers did not vet the bus company. This and the PLO crap is looking more Astroturfing than reality. Follow the money. J6 was over a million an organic. Much of Right to life is too.
Overall event was a success.
Also, I don’t know about the planes capacity, but most don’t hold 900. The pictured plane looks like an l1011 which holds 400 max. There might have been logistic issues on the ground. If I was a bus driver and people were venting at me, I would be saying the hell with this. There is a lot misssing from the story.
In other stories, three aircraft were mentioned, at about 300 each. Likely 767s in charter arrangement. As for the L-1011, I think there is one example still flying. More’s the pity as it was an incredible airplane.
DC-10s, the one with the third engine seemingly pop-riveted onto the rudder as an afterthought, is also out of passenger service, even for charter.
Uber was not an option because only vehicles with permits are allowed on the tarmac. They were also not allowed to get off the plane and walk out of the airport to where they could have vehicles waiting.