The ‘StopAntisemitism’ Account Loses It Over Airport Worker’s Keffiyeh: ‘This Poses a Safety Concern’

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The StopAntiSemitism X account – with its 330,000 followers – fired off a menacing tweet on Tuesday purporting to show an airport employee seemingly doing his job and minding his own business. At “issue” was the fact that the man appeared to be wearing a keffiyeh around his neck.

The keffiyeh is standard headwear for men in parts of the Middle East, as well as in the United States and other multicultural societies where Arab communities exist, ideally free from online harassment at the hands of fear-mongering social media accounts.

“A Delta passenger at JFK Airport was horrified to see a grounds crew member wearing a keffiyeh—a symbol that has been appropriated and associated with violence against Jews,” the StopAntisemitism account tweeted. “How unsettling to witness this moments before boarding a plane. This poses a safety concern for all passengers, @JFKairport!”

The account cited the handle @Jejkings, whose name on X is “Wokeism is a Cancer.” That person claimed to have seen the employee at John F. Kennedy International Airport in New York.

“Today, while boarding my flight from JFK with Delta Airlines, I was shocked and deeply disturbed to see an employee wearing a white keffiyeh,” the person wrote. “This symbol has become strongly associated with calls for violence and even genocide against Jews worldwide.”

The person went on to demand that Delta “address this immediately and ensure that such incidents do not happen again.”