Attacks On Jews Around the World

A Quebec man was attacked and beaten with a stick after he refused to surrender his Israeli flag after an Israeli Independence Day rally in Westmount on Thursday.


"Give us the flag," the attackers, in their late teens or early twenties, had demanded of the victim in French, eyewitness Dan Goldstein told The Jerusalem Post.


In a video filmed by Goldstein and his wife Liat Lev-Ary Goldstein, the youth struggled to pull the flag out of the hands of the victim and when they were unable to tear it from his grip, they struck him in the head from behind with a stick.

(full article online)

 
A yeshiva student was assaulted on Tuesday in the Flatbush section of Brooklyn, the third antisemitic attack in the New York City borough since last Friday.

The unnamed student was surrounded by five males at the intersection of of Avenue M and East 18th Street in Flatbush who punched him in the face. One of the assailants reportedly yelled “Free Palestine” during the assault.

(full article online)


 
Australian police are investigating an attack on two Jewish men in the city of Melbourne that left one of them requiring hospital treatment for severe bruising and lacerations.

Sunday’s attack occurred just over a week after the introduction of legislation to ban the public display of the Nazi swastika, newspaper The Age reported.

(full article online)

 
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Rene Hadjaj, 90, was thrown out his apartment window in Lyon, France by his Muslim neighbor.

A Jewish man, René Hadjaj, 90, was thrown out his apartment window on the 17th floor of a building in Lyon, Frabce, by his Muslim neighbor, according to a Saturday Facebook post by Meyer Habib, who serves as a member of the French National Assembly, representing the eighth constituency for French residents overseas.

(full article online)

 




There have been a wave of antisemitic attacks in Brooklyn over the past few years, and for the most part the media has been ignoring them - because the attackers don't fit the racial profile of white supremacists.

We've seen these videos way too often - a Hasidic man, walking along the street, being randomly attacked by a Jew-hater.

Like this one that seem to have happened yesterday:

(vide video online)

Luckily, we have video of what happened right afterwards, thanks to a Hasidic truck driver on the scene:

(vide video online)

This needs to happen more often. And in such a way that there is active disincentive for the potential attackers, who think they can punch and hit Jews with impunity.

 
A delivery driver is facing possible hate crimes charges after making violent threats to Jewish students at a yeshiva in Toronto and assaulting a staffer there, a Canadian Jewish group said Thursday.

According to Yeshiva World News, the Uber Eats deliveryman showed up at Toronto’s Yeshiva Gedolah, accosting students and saying he would “kill 30 Jews today.” The disturbing scene was witnessed by the school’s cook, YWN reported, who was punched in the face after asking the man to leave. The cook then tackled the perpetrator and detained him until the arrival of police, who discovered that he was armed with a knife.


 
Logan Jones — the alleged offender in Staten Island — is accused of having approached the victim, a 21-year-old Jewish man who was walking with his wife, accompanied by five friends in the evening of April 1. Jones is said to have punched his victim in the face before joining with two of his companions in repeatedly kicking the Jewish man, who tried to escape by sliding under a truck parked nearby.

Jones and the five others allegedly fled the scene as the victim’s wife asked a bystander to call the police. The victim — who was dressed in traditional Hasidic attire when the attack occurred — suffered severe head and body pain, an abrasion to the cheek, as well as bruising to the face and mouth, according to the Brooklyn District Attorney’s office. Jones’s bail was set at $30,000 and he is due to appear in court again on June 24.

Meanwhile, Eric Redding, the 35-year-old arrested over an attack in early May upon an Orthodox Jewish man in the Crown Heights section of Brooklyn, is facing assault, aggravated harassment, menacing and hate crime charges, police said. Redding is accused of punching and kicking the 32-year-old man in broad daylight at the intersection of President Street and Utica Avenue while he hurled antisemitic insults at him, according to police.

(full article online)

 
Logan Jones was indicted for assaulting a Jewish man in the Williamsburg neighborhood of Brooklyn borough, District Attorney Eric Gonzalez announced on Thursday.


The 18-year-old, who is originally from Staten Island, walked to a synagogue wearing hasidic clothing when he committed the attack. The crime took place at the beginning of April when a group of a few people including Jones kicked and started punching the victim in the face. They fled the scene after the victim's wife asked a witness to call the police.


Charges and Injuries​

Jones is charged with third-degree assault as a hate crime, third-degree menacing as a hate crime, third-degree menacing, third-degree attempted assault as a hate crime, third-degree attempted assault and second-degree harassment. His bail was set at $30,000.

(full article online)

 
Four neo-Nazi men in France's Alsace region were indicted for possessing and trafficking an "impressive" amount of weapons that were intended for use against Jews, prosecutor Edwige Roux-Morizot said on Friday.


The men, aged between 45-53, were affiliated with far-right neo-Nazi groupsand had intended on "hunting Jews" during a soccer match in Strasbourg, she said.


During the arrest, French police seized 18 legal and 23 illegal guns and some 120,000 bullets, as well as neo-Nazi literature, the prosecutor said.

Reports of antisemitic incidents in France increased by 75% in 2021, according to the Jewish Community Security Service, the French Jewish community’s main watchdog group.


SPCJ recorded 589 hate crimes against Jews last year, including a 36% increase in physical assaults over 2020. The group released its annual report on Wednesday.


Incidents targeting people – as opposed to communal buildings and institutions – accounted for 45% of all incidents in 2021. Of those, 10% were physical assaults.

(full article online)

 
Felony hate crimes charges have been filed against a University of Illinois-Urbana Champaign (UIUC) student who confessed to throwing a rock at Jewish students during an anti-Israel protestoutside the campus’ Hillel center in April, according to a report from The News Gazette.

“The State Attorney’s filing sends a clear message that violence against Jews, or any other minority for that matter, is unacceptable and unwelcome in Champaign-Urbana,” Illini Hillel Executive Director Erez Cohen told The Algemeiner Thursday morning.

(full article online)

 
Liron Rozenhaft was attacked in the Bas-Rhin constituency that covers the center of Strasbourg as well as outlying districts. The constituency is one of the most heavily contested in France, with 17 candidates running for election, among them Sandra Regol, a NUPES candidate and a prominent leader of France’s Green Party. In her remarks on Wednesday, Audrey Rozenhaft asserted that the brazen attack on her husband in the district represented “an obstacle to democratic life which should be condemned and punished with the greatest severity by the courts.”

Liron Rozenhaft was still undergoing hospital treatment on Thursday, reportedly suffering from breathing difficulties. Photographs posted by Audrey Rozenhaft to Facebook in the aftermath of the attack showed her husband with a badly swollen eye and cuts and bruises over his face.

(full article online)

 


Abbas’ Fatah party posted a video on Facebook of an Arab hitting a religious Jew in Jerusalem. Text on the video, which was produced by the digital media department of the Fatah-run Awdah TV station, said:

”May your hands be blessed.”
But this was not enough for Fatah. In its post on Facebook, Fatah expressed its admiration of the attacker, addressing him as “hero”:

Posted text: “May your hands be blessed, hero.”
[Facebook page of the Fatah Commission of Information and Culture, June 14, 2022


 

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