Did a viral video show passengers singing with a flight attendant waving an Israeli flag, in June 2025? No, that's not true: Posts on social media reused an old recording. The footage had been on the internet since October 2023.
The claim appeared in a post (archived here) on X on June 19, 2025. It read:
Israel carries out a daring rescue, sending special planes to extricate Israeli nationals trapped in their European vacation spots and wing them home to a war zone.
The entry included a one-minute video showing a flight crew member holding an Israeli flag and dancing and singing in the aisle between the seat rows on the plane. Passengers appear to recognize the lyrics and sang along, and many were recording the scene on their phones.
Contrary to the implication in the post on X, the recording didn't document anything that happened in 2025. By June 2025, the video had been online for roughly a year and a half.
Another video of what appeared to be the continuaton of the same scene (archived here) appeared on Facebook even earlier, on October 14, 2023. It was published by Aviad Shotts, whose profile described him as a flight attendant for Arkia Israeli Airlines.
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