On Newsmax TV, Michael Weiner, also known as Michael Savage blasted Charedi Jews, and appeared to defend Lufthansa, after they committed an act of blatant antisemitism and then admitted it on video. He bashed Charedim for “throwing rocks”, and compared Jews not wearing masks to “Devil Worshippers.”
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Savage, was asked in an interview about the well-publicized incident in which the German airline banned 130 Jewish passengers over the behavior of “one or two”
He proceeded to blast Chassidim as “fanatical and self-centered”. He blamed Jewish passengers for not complying with the rules, and dismissed the admission by a Lufthansa employee that they targeted Jews as her getting “tripped up and making a mistake.”
This is a very simple matter. If two black passengers on an airplane refused to wear masks, and the airline banned all blacks from boarding their connecting flight, the world would be livid at the extreme hate and bigotry. The NAACP would have filed lawsuits, and every politician in the country would be condemning the airline. Yet Savage seized the opportunity to bash Jews and show his complete disdain and ignorance. He even went so far to say the people on the plane were “Satmar Hassidim who throw rocks” which was completely fabricated.
Oy. @lufthansa accused only a few Jews of not following the rules, so your hot take that everyone needed to be banned because Orthodox Jews allegedly don't follow rules elsewhere is insane.
Like the Kapos in the 1940s, you are more bigoted to fellow Jews than German persecutors!
— Yossi Gestetner (@YossiGestetner) May 11, 2022
In response, activist Yossi Gestetner tweeted: Oy. @lufthansa accused only a few Jews of not following the rules, so your hot take that everyone needed to be banned because Orthodox Jews allegedly don’t follow rules elsewhere is insane. Like the Kapos in the 1940s, you are more bigoted to fellow Jews than German persecutors!
Here are more disgraceful quotes from Weiner’s interview:
“I hung out with Lubavitch Chassidim for many years. They are extremely self centered and fanatical in their beliefs.”
He added: “I know these people they don’t listen to anybody. They want to do what they want to do. They throw rocks at people.”
Yes there is a small minority of extremists who throw rocks at people. None of them were on that flight, and even if they were, it does not condone Lufthansa’s inexcusable behavior.
Savage also claimed that the Jew on video who questioned the Lufthansa employee, “was looking for a lawsuit, and baiting her, by sticking a camera in her face.”
Savage added: “Next we will have Devil worshippers wanting to worship the Devil on a plane.”
This is an absurd statement. Nobody claimed that this was a matter of religious freedom, and the comparison of Jews not wanting to wear a mask to “Devil Worship” is simply egregious.
Savage posted another video on Twitter, taken at home most likely cooking pork, in which he added that “the people on the flight were Satmar Chassidim who believe that the State of Israel should not exist.” (That video has since been mysteriously deleted.)
Again, Savage displayed his complete ignorance and disdain. These were not Satmar Chassidim, and even if they were, their philosophical belief has nothing to do with wearing a mask, and certainly does not condone the airline’s behavior in any way.
This is an extremely simple matter, and many on the right and the left are outraged at the airline’s behavior. The only conclusion that one can draw is that Savage used this incident as a pretext to express what is clearly a deep anger and hatred.
Savage claims to be someone who cares about “protecting liberty”, yet he has shown his true colors, and it is dark and ugly.
We call on Savage to invite a real Chassid onto his show, who can set the record straight, and call out his complete ignorance and disdain for religious Jews.
Savage goes back and forth on many issues depending how he feels when he wakes up. He’s not 100%.
He is nebach (as anyone who listens to him knows) bipolar and this is just one example of it.
At times he is the most loving towards Chasidim and sometimes he goes off his rockers.
This guy bashed autistic children on the air a few years back. That cost him sponsors.
Don’t take him seriously. But do deal with him seriously.
So Savage thinks he should have been kicked off that plane if he was on it? He is Jewish.
Another desperate human being looked for attention!
Love this reply on Twitter from @JackKaplanNY
“The guy that changed his name from Weiner to Savage so he doesn’t sound so Jewish – is lecturing people that were kicked off a plane for having a Jewish last name. Makes sense…..”
His real name Michael Weiner, not Savage. The macho guy is all an act. A Weiner Weiner Weiner!
Well I suppose that’s the last time we buy him a pizza and coke on Kingston Ave
He really lives up to his name. (Not the Savage one.)
I use to like him but then I heard him talk real KEFIREH he thinks he knows it all he is A SELF HATING JEW
Why is even savage news worthy he is a nut,
Frum Jews may cha”v end up ruing the day they got in bed with “tell it like it is” extremist talk show hosts. As long as they’re bashing ‘the left’ or all kinds of other groups with broad, hostile brushes it’s great, until the moment they turn the brush on the Jews.
In the long run, reasonable, dignified politics, and even small amounts of ‘political correctness’ protects the Jews. The new wave of ‘straight talk’, say what you think, bash peoples and groups, ‘owning’ the ‘snowflakes’ and other crude political games, in the bigger picture and long run is very not good for Jews, no matter which side we think we’re on.
Shmuck
How dare you disparage the holy Tanya, you ignoramus
He is deranged, gets it right about 70% of the time. He is wrong this time.
Lets not forget all the things Coumo and deblasio said about Chasidim and Coumo even played a 10 year old video to prove his point about chasiddim not wearing masked in 2010, was much worse, given the duration & frequency.
Savge is wrong ,he is categorizing all Lubavitchers as not following the rules , Can you imagine if African Americans were asked to leave the plane?
Michael Wienerschnitzel is a self-hating Joe. It is absolutely amazing how he’s all over the map on what he likes and what he doesn’t like. Personally I think he’s on something, whatever that something might be. He’s all over the place.
“For Chri-For G-d’s sake…” He has just shown what kind of “Jew” he is.
You miserable liar, the Tanya is publicly available and it says no such thing.
Chazal say that a person doesn’t lie about something which is easily provable as false. So what does that tell us about you, who have just done that? If there’s anyone who should be compared to an animal, it’s you.
Funny there were no Lubavitchers flying to karestir lol
This is the same guy who made fun of the mitzvah of bris milah!
He just makes a fool of him self
This guy is part of the problem! I think he can go represent Lufthansa when the lawsuit comes their way.. lets see how successful he’ll be!
I am a frum jew and NOT self-centered nor fanatical nor did I break any mask rules when I flew a handful of times during the last few months. What the heck is wrong with this guy? Sounds like a Hasidic hater or perhaps even a jew hater. Not sure which but certainly one of them!
Savage is a farbisen meshuganah!
Sounds like you never read the book. Faker !
comparing muslims praying, and devil worshippers worshipping, to jews wearing masks, makes no sense.
This has nothing to do with prayers or fanaticism
If you want to understand how such a thing could happen look who’s running Lufthansa.
(Ret. Col.) Wilhelm Klink
(Ret. Sgt.) Hans Schultz
Arch-conservative Savage loved Trump. Now he hates Jews. Fair and Balanced
This radio charlatan besmerches every Orthodox Jew for his own publicity.
He is an styrene fake who discusses any controversy against Orthodox Jews.
Let him go belch to sleep!
What a hillel Hashem he did. He poured grease on the fire of anti-semitism. Thanks a lot, weiner.
Curious is the he chose Sewage or Savage? Neither is nice but both are fitting for him.
For everyone lambasting Weiner – and rightly so – keep this in mind.
Weiner is a sensationalist. Yes, some of his views are of a certain bend, but you don’t get listeners or viewers by agreeing to the host. If all you did was shake your head yes, the other station wouldn’t call you.
They bring him on because it makes for good TV and weiner is aware and follows suit. The disagreement at the end means they did a good job.
Yeah, his opnion is disgusting. And maybe orthodox Jews irk him, who knows. But what really is happening is TV….
…which also shows you what the media is really after. It’s a waste to get caught up in helping them make money.
Someone should let this self-hating savage wiener know that the CEO of Lufthansa already apologized to the Chief Rabbi of Berlin and suspended the offending employees. Someone should also let the wiener know that the Lubavitcher chasidim are mekarev irreligious Jews, they don’t throw rocks at them.
I find it amusing that Wiener Aka ;savage ,will favorably judge a antisemite even when unaware of their true position (as was delineated in the second letter From the Aguda )yet would Double standardly
1)unfavorably call the whole group /all frum jews ,lubabicher !
2)unfavorably accuse the guy who was trying to figure out plans On how to get out of the mess Lufthansa put him and many others through as “Just baiting For a lawsuit “ As apposed to attempting to get out of the situation without Lufthansa continuing their lies and runaround with him ! As apposed to airing his grievances !
3) unfavorably judge the two who were accused of non compliance
4) unfavorably judge the original Lubavitcher as “ being the only group who thinks they can do whatever they want “ Show me such Judgement from himself when a Asian Mexican African Americans or his own kronies including himself commit all types of wrongdoings
Isn’t it a riot that weiner aka savage is spewing the same sewage he is accusing them Of !;
1) He thinks he can say whatever he wants when on air by grouping all those Jews one group Although they were not
2) can deride all lubav ,
3) can deride all frum jews as lubab
Does it make any sense for weiner to defend Lufthansa for doing whatever THEY want Especially when in Was by using Their position of power To make 140 jews miserable as collective punishment two jews do whatever they want ?
Do you think somebody like weiner who believes all frum jews deserving of collective bad rap on account of his bad encounter with a Lubavitcher ,that HE can possibly see Lufthansa accountable of doing the same ?
Does this not show how off we’ve become ?
Why are you giving him the attention he so desperately looking for? A failed narcissist Michael Weiner.
He probably defends the nazis too
Apikores!!! Who do you think you are to talk like that about the holy Baal Hatanya
I’m surprised at the amount of Jews that are siding with Savage on this topic, how can you all possibly think the guy is right against your fellow Jews? What a shondah!
Let’s be don likof zichos on another yid, maybe we are missing something here.
How can any responsible news organization allow him to remain employed by them!
How can you say he is anti-Haredi? Don’t you see that he is wearing a black hat in your photo at the top of the story. So he keeps the main thing of Haredism.
Case dismissed.
It’s true though that charedim are notorious for not following the rules when it comes to wearing masks. And they misbehave on flights, in general. Nobody can deny that.
To think this all could of been avoided if all Frum Yidden understood the importance of being Menschlich instead of letting their ego tell them they’re not going to let a Goy (much less a German one) tell them what to do.
He may have been intemperate in his remarks, but do we want to institute a version of cancel culture here?
This is a secret please don’t expose. Chabad does good work reaching out, and if these things got out if will hamper their efforts. In the lifetime of the Baal ha’Tanya there was much controversy on these issues
I watched the Savage video above and it was not as bad as depicted in the written report here. Whoever wants to know the truth should do the same.
Yossi G. should cool it and calm down.
It’s called Collective Punishment, like when a Goy does something bad to Yidden, we say Halacha Biydiyo Sh’Eisov Soineh L’Yakov. Or, Ah Goy Blabt Ah Goy.
For the sins of a few, we condemn every person who was born to a non-yiddishe mother.
A Non-yiddishe, no matter how good he is, can not escape the phrase of, ‘Am Hadomeh Lachamor’.
Michael savage isnt perfect and not everything he says is halacha moshe misinay. However there is some truth to what he is saying, “some”…
Michael Savage is conservative. He is right wing. He loves Trump. This must be fake news or he must be saying the truth.
The comparison to all Blacks banned for the actions of 2 Blacks makes no sense and every semi-intelligent person know it. Can Jews be this ignorant or trying to be deceptive?