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Kuwait Airways Pays Damages to Israeli Barred from Heathrow Flight
(Jewish News-UK) Kuwait Airways has agreed to pay substantial damages plus costs to an Israeli national, Mandy Blumenthal, who was refused a ticket on a flight from London to Bangkok on the grounds of her nationality last November. Her encounter at the Kuwait Airways desk was filmed and the video is available on YouTube. Lawyer David Berens said: "The law is clear: direct discrimination on grounds of nationality in the provision of a service to the public is illegal. Ms. Blumenthal has done a service in showing up Kuwait Airways' illegal policy. Kuwait Airways is now legally obliged to end this policy or end its services from the UK altogether."