Delta apologizes after reacting to post calling employees' Palestinian flag pins "Hamas badges"
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Delta Air Lines on Friday issued an apology after it echoed the sentiment of a social media post disparaging staffers wearing Palestinian flag pins on their uniforms.
An X user posted images of two Delta employees wearing the pins, suggesting that the imagery made the traveller uncomfortable. "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?" the X user wrote.
In a since deleted post, Delta responded from its own X account. "I hear you as I'd be terrified as well, personally. Our employees reflect our culture and we do not take it lightly when our policy is not being followed," Delta wrote, according to a screenshot of the exchange shared by the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR).
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