“We find that the claimant is capable of saying something and believing it is true, and yet is shown to be wrong when you look at the contemporaneous documents,” the employment tribunal said.
A Muslim security officer who sued London Heathrow Airport for discrimination over being told to remove a Palestinian flag badge from her lanyard lost her case last month before an employment tribunal in a unanimous decision.
Zara Saiyed was approached by a colleague about her badge in Nov. 2023, weeks after Hamas massacred 1,200 people, mostly Israeli citizens, and took 251 hostage during a rampage through southern Israel.
The next day Saiyed submitted an official grievance and subsequently sued Heathrow Airport Ltd., claiming her co-workers and managers had discriminated against her on grounds of race and religion.
“Demanding the removal of the Palestinian flag from my lanyard is tantamount to finding my hijab offensive and insisting on its removal,” she said in the complaint.