The drivers who walked out are either Leftists or Muslims, and probably a mixture of both, full of righteous indignation over false reports of Israeli atrocities.
“About 300 Jewish people headed to DC Israel rally left stranded by bus drivers staging ‘deliberate and malicious’ walkout,” by Doree Lewak, Katherine Donlevy and Jack Morphet, New York Post, November 14, 2023:
Hundreds of Jewish people headed to Tuesday’s pro-Israel rally in DC were left stranded when bus drivers staged “a deliberate and malicious walk-off,’’ a major Jewish organization said.
The “anti-protest” left a charted flight from Detroit — about 300 people — on the Dulles Airport tarmac for about 11 hours before being sent back home, causing them to miss the entire March for Israel event.
“I thought it was nuts, I thought it was crazy that we’re blocked from getting to the rally,” Jonathan Kaufman told The Post, adding that there were “frantic” calls to find out what was happening as they were stranded for hours.
“Our right to assembly is a constitutional right — and this was straight up blocking that.”
Kaufman and 900 others hopped on three private planes out of Detroit chartered by the Jewish Federation of Detroit, which also booked several buses to transport the massive group to the march at DC’s National Mall.
A third of the passengers weren’t allowed to leave the tarmac, however, after several buses failed to show up on the tarmac upon their 10:30 a.m. landing, according to a federation spokesperson.
The drivers had organized a “mass sick out” day to prevent Jewish ralliers from attending the much-anticipated march, leaving just a handful available to meet their obligations.
“We have learned from the bus company that this was caused by a deliberate and malicious walk-off of drivers,” the spokesperson told The Post.
The bus company — which the federation repeatedly refused to name — told the Jewish Federation of Detroit that a “significant number” of drivers called out sick when they learned they would be taking hundreds of Jewish Americans to the pro-Israel rally, the organization’s David Kurzmann told reporters at a press conference Tuesday….
The massive group was initially told the busses were struggling to get through security to enter the concourse and reach the tarmac before they were told the truth.
“About an hour and a half later we were told that there was an ongoing walkout of bus drivers from the company that was hired to drive us into the city and that the shortage of drivers was making it very difficult to get us into DC,” Jonah Seinfeld-Chopp, an 18-year-old freshman at the University of Michigan, told The Post….
maria says
arrest the driver and boycott the bus company.
And the driver must pay for his deliberately antisemitic deed
bagsgroove says
And then shoot the buggers !
Huapakechi says
Not enough retaliation for their crimes. Revoke their citizenship (if they are citizens) and deport ’em to somalia or some other moslem paradise.
Hoi Polloi says
I don’t hear leftists with their usual shrieks about equal treatment.
Hugh Fitzgerald says
Can the bus company be sued? Can the bus company, in turn, fire those drivers who, prompted by a deep anti-Israel animus, refused to drive passengers to the march? Can you imagine what would happen if the passengers had been black, and missed a civil rights rally because bus drivers refused to transport them. All hell would break loose.
Are there any lawyers, among JW readers or their friends, who might want to take this on?
CogitoErgoSum says
Yes, the bus drivers who did this must have been a combination of Muslims and Leftists. The bus company needs to fire every one of the drivers who refused to do the job they were hired to do and the company needs to be sued for restitution.
John Adams is reported to have said that our Constitution and our form of government in the U.S. was designed for a moral and religious people. Problem is: we are now being overrun by large numbers of immoral people and people who follow a religion that calls for our destruction. The U.S. is not going to survive as a free country if we let this trend continue. Freedom is great but allowing people the freedom to take away the freedom of others is just insanity.
somehistory says
Perhaps the company can simply fire these bus drivers. At will employment means the employer can fire for “cause” or “no cause.”
Unless they have a contract that says something different. If so, at least their pay can be docked for not showing up to work.
This is, as everyone knows, discrimination. It would be illegal to fire the drivers for their religious belief, and it should be illegal for them to refuse to take Jews where they wanted to go….and had been paid….to drive them.
The stranded passengers should see about suing the company and the drivers. There is a law that states that a company is liable for crimes committed by their employees.
bagsgroove says
Has anybody ever heard of a muslim who has been a human who was a contributor to the betterment of people’s lives.
brenrod says
The company must be sued along with the drivers. The names of the drivers can be revealed by the suit. The company must be banned from servicing the airport and the drivers should lose their commercial driving license. At the least Jews need to know the names of the company and individuals involved to avoid future situations. A lot of Hamas supporters are driving taxis, ride shares and delivering food.