The unfriendly skies: On United, your checked bags might be riding alongside some tank parts bound for Israel.
United Airlines is set to resume the shipment of military hardware to Israel aboard passenger flights, according to shipping data reviewed by The Intercept. The airline, one of the biggest in the world, had halted the practice more than six months ago amid the outbreak of the war on Iran.
On Wednesday evening, United is scheduled to transport five shipments of military cargo onboard United Airlines flight 90, a passenger route from Newark Liberty International Airport, in New Jersey, to Tel Aviv, Israel, a day after resuming the route and another direct flight to Israel, records show.
Using open-source methods to find publicly accessible cargo documents, researchers with the Movement Research Unit — a group that provides investigative muscle for left-wing groups and causes — said they tracked 2,761 shipments to weapons manufacturers transported by United aboard 160 civilian passenger flights between July 24, 2025, and February 27, 2026.
Great way to put innocent civilians at risk of becoming legitimate military targets…
Words cannot describe how much Israel wants Iran to shoot down an American passenger jet, legitimate target or not.
Nobody forced the American to put their civilians in position of human shield
Almost like the American leadership cares more about what Israel wants than the safety of Americans.
- depending on your openmindedness, this may be based on historic precedent a quarter of a century ago…
Brings to mind their slogan, but slightly altered - “fly the not-so-friendly skies of United”
Isnt this why the lucitania was sunk?
Fuck United.
“Hamas are using human shields, this is on them” was like the closest thing Israel almost had to being vaguely conceivable as a point in their flimsy justification for bombing civilian populations in Gaza, and it turns out they don’t even have that as a moral high ground either.
Israel started using palestinians kids as human shield since the second intifada
Isn’t this what got the US in WW1?
I know it’s OSINT, but if I was writing for the intercept, I’d have a real bad taste in my mouth, if that specific flight got shot down.
well…not flying anymore.
Who can even afford it? Who are these rich people?
sometimes I have to fly for work, company paid. between this and the increase of crashes due to a lack of air traffic controllers, I don’t think I’ll set foot on a plane again unless I’m permanently leaving the country.
Holy Fuck
