Cunard Boots Elderly Couple Over Anti-Semitic Slur Row
There has to be more than what the media reports have thus far indicated, but an elderly Jewish couple was booted from the Queen Mary II just days into a 30-day cruise. Another passenger had made anti-Semitic slurs against the couple, and the couple may have gotten belligerent after those slurs were made.
Broadway producer Gloria Sher, 82, and her husband, Frederick Evans, 91, said they were ordered off the luxury liner after their obscenity-filled argument with someone they claim had made an anti-Semitic remark during a stately black-tie dinner.The ship may end up facing a lawsuit over this - and there are passengers taking both sides here - some claiming to have seen the incident go down, and others saying that Evans got belligerent when drinking.The couple almost wound up stranded in a remote port in Quebec as punishment for their outburst. At the time, they were only days into the $20,000, five-week cruise.
They were eventually allowed to remain aboard for six more days after some passengers came to their defense, but they had to stay inside their cabin — under house arrest. Even their booze was confiscated.
“I was treated with no respect and unbelievably rude and shockingly terrible,” Sher said. “I’ve been sick ever since. It has ruined our lives. It’s changed us forever.”
Minutes into their meal that day, the couple said, one of their dining companions told Sher to shut up, then added, “There are too many Jews on board.”
As bad as all this is, the comments at the NY Post are a cesspool of vile anti-Semitism, where posters make all manner of insinuations and anti-Semitic slurs.