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El Al sued for asking Holocaust survivor to change seat at behest of Haredi

Upon discovering what woman was victim of this insult, I can only say they fully deserve this lawsuit:
An Israeli woman is suing El Al for gender-based discrimination after she was asked to switch seats on a flight from Newark to Tel Aviv in order to accommodate an ultra-Orthodox man who asked not to be seated next to her.

According to The New York Times, Renee Rabinowitz, a Holocaust survivor who is now retired following a successful career as a lawyer, reluctantly agreed to switch her aisle seat in the business-class section of El Al Flight 028 this past December after a man wearing "Hassidic or haredi garb" took his place in the same row near the window.

El Al flight attendants, wanting to defuse the controversy, asked Rabinowitz if she would like a seat closer to first class.

“Despite all my accomplishments - and my age is also an accomplishment - I felt minimized,” she told The New York Times. “For me this is not personal,” Rabinowitz said. “It is intellectual, ideological and legal. I think to myself, here I am, an older woman, educated, I’ve been around the world, and some guy can decide that I shouldn’t sit next to him. Why?”
Not only does El Al deserve to be sued for this, even the Haredi man himself should be sued and/or charged with sexual discrimination. What he and they did was a punch in the face to Holocaust survivors, and that's one of the most offensive moments in which discrimination can happen. Neither the Haredi man nor the airline recognize that what they did was, in a way, not all that different from what the nazis did, belittling women as much as Jews.

Just as bad, the airline and the Haredi man himself gave ammunition to leftists who'd surely want to paint Israel as a sexist society. That's another thing for which they'll have to apologize.

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