re: #62 EmmmieG

I wish this was not so. My Bahai (Iranian) cousin-in-law gets searched every single time, too.

And, like you, his people have suffered persecution for their religion. They’re really a very peaceful people.

(However, El Al also uses profiling techniques that have nothing to do with skin color. I recall reading that they also profile unusual behaviors, and that has saved lives.)

Absolutely.

One famous story is the pregnant Irish woman who was trying to board an El Al flight to Israel.

Someone thought it strange that she was traveling alone with big bags, questioned her, and she said she was flying to meet her Palestinian husband.

They found a bomb in one of her bags that her husband had planted without her knowledge.

I gather they are divorced.

Or maybe not.