This is the shock question posed by Yossi Amar after a series of incidents targeting the Israeli airline. Latest: an air controller in Roissy sending a “free Palestine” to an EL AL driver, in full takeoff. “If you are lucky, you find this message on a meal set. With less luck, you have landed. And in the worst case, your flight security is compromised, ”he alerts.
For him, these facts are added to a broader context: banishment of Israeli companies in international salons, suspension of arms sales, unilateral recognition of a Palestinian state after October 7. “It amounts to rewarding a terrorist massacre,” he said, recalling that several dozen French people were killed that day.
He also points out the “explosion” of the anti-Semitic acts identified in France in 2025 and discriminatory measures such as the non-reaches of El Al security agents’ visas. Through his collective “zero tolerance”, Yossi Amar ensures that a legal and media hunt is engaged against authors of acts and anti-Semitic remarks, whether anonymous on networks or members of institutions. “Once you go, they stay in our files and that pursues them,” he warns. A bitter observation: for Yossi Amar, the slowness or lack of reaction of the French authorities in the face of these incidents illustrates a deep discomfort, exceeding the only case of El Al. “The facts speak for themselves,” he concludes.