A Jewish Family Was Booted From A Flight Over Body Odor But Says Anti-Semitism Is To Blame

(Washington Post) Lindsey Bever January 25 at 3:19 PM A Michigan couple and their 19-month-old daughter were removed from an American Airlines flight after the airline told them that other passengers and crew members had complained about their body odor. Yossi Adler said he and his wife Jennie were heading home from a vacation in Miami on Wednesday night when they were told there was an emergency and they needed to exit the plane. The couple both 37 had eight other children at home in Southfield Mich. so Adler said that he and his wife were worried that there may have been an incident involving one of them. Later he said when he and his wife stepped off the plane and the airline told them that they had been removed because of a stench they were humiliated" frustrated" and left wondering about the real reason. Obviously there was a reason" Adler who is Jewish said in a phone interview Friday with The Washington Post. But I think it was an anti-Semitic reason. Even if it wasnt" he added they were anti-Semitic afterward."