A United Airlines passenger says he was ordered to remove a T-shirt declaring that “bombing kids is not self defense” after a flight attendant found the message offensive. United has every right to enforce its dress code, but this shirt should never have crossed that line.
Sam Saadeh, who is of Palestinian descent, was traveling from Atlanta to Newark on June 4, 2026, wearing a shirt that read:
Indeed, airlines should be able to intervene when passengers wear clothing featuring profanity, pornography, racial slurs, or material deliberately designed to provoke a confrontation in a confined metal tube.
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