Two BOAC aircrew members were flown home from Israel yesterday, and suspended from duty, pending an inquiry into charges they exhibited violently anti-Semitic behavior in an Israeli hotel bar. Their flight captain ordered them out of Israel after they were accused of insulting Jews in the bar. Patrons complained that the BOAC men cursed Israel and shouted at them “You should all be driven into the sea. You have no right to exist.”
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