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The other day, I (27F) was flying alone on a long distance international flight back to London in economy.
I had a window seat, and I like those because I can lean towards the side. My section of the plane was mostly filled with what seemed like Hasidic jewish men, they were all wearing Kippahs.
As I got on the plane, the person besides me asked if I could find another seat, explaining that due to his faith he could not be next to a woman. I declined and said that this was on my boarding pass and I could not just take someone else's seat. He then pressured me again once everyone was boarded.
Once we were in the air, he asked me to move again and called a flight attendant. The flight attendant said I could move to an aisle seat in the back which was free if I wanted to but I declined. She then essentially told him tough luck, but he could find someone else to move with if they agreed.
He asked a man seated in front of him who did not have a kippah on and he declined to switch with him.
Here is where I might begin to be TBF. I am actually a non religious Jew myself and have both a British and Israeli passport. I intentionally took out my Israeli passport and started looking at it. He was observing me and had a surprised Pickachu face when I did this. He then asked me again if I could switch and that it was important to him, I said i cannot as I like window seats and I told him he should have bought extra tickets or traveled in business where he would have a pod to himself. He told me 'how dare you' and accused me of being anti-Semitic by implying he had money.
During the rest of the flight, I was kind of annoyed at this, and I purposely took out my tablet, and paid for the onboard wifi and started reading news articles I had already read, about topics like Israeli occupation, Palestinian rights and criticism of Netanyahu the PM of Israel. He kept glancing at my screen and from time to time muttered things in Hebrew under his breath which I did not understand. I also removed my jumper to show more skin even though it was cold, and had a camisole top on.
We finally landed and he gave me a moral lecture as I was collecting my bags about antisemitism and respecting elders.
AITB here?
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