Firstly, there was no badgering. Secondly, something is only racist when race enters as a negative factor.

That was not the case here. Her race entered as an unusual factor -- as did her rank, her sex, her NATO credentials, and the fact that she began the itinerary in Rome.

If a white man by the name of Irving Goldstein tries to get on an El Al flight in Milan and says he is doing so because he is part of a group from an African Methodist Episcopal (AME) church in Mobile, Alabama, he is going to get a lot more questions than a Black member of that church boarding at JFK.

Does that make El Al anti-white or do you think they just don't like people named "Goldstein"?