Delta Airlines apologized on Thursday after the company’s X account sympathized with a post that incorrectly said two flight attendants with Palestinian flag pins were wearing “Hamas badges.”
An X user by the handle “ilikeTeslas” had tweeted Tuesday: “Since 2001 we take our shoes off in every airport because a terrorist attack in US soil. Now imagine getting into a @Delta flight and seeing workers with Hamas badges in the air. What do you do?”
“I hear you as I’d be terrified as well, personally,” the Delta Air Lines X account replied Wednesday. “Our employees reflect our culture and we do not take it lightly when our policy is not being followed,” the tweet continued.
That response was later deleted.
The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), the nation’s largest Muslim advocacy organization, slammed the airline for the “racist anti-Palestinian tweet” and demanded an apology, and a better education of…
