Airline Kicks 100 Jewish Students Off Plane For Not Putting Away Phones

This photo shows an AirTran Airways jetA group of around 100 high school students traveling from New York to Atlanta were ejected from an AirTran flight after the pilot and crew lost patience with kids who wouldn’t sit down and put away their phones.

Student Jonathan Zehavi believes they were targeted because they are Jewish. “They treated us like we were terrorists; I’ve never seen anything like it. I’m not someone to make these kinds of statements,” Zehavi told CNN. “I think if it was a group of non-religious kids, the air stewardess wouldn’t have dared to kick them off.”

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