70-Year-Old Jewish Man Injured In Anti-Semitic Attack In Berlin

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File - Police close the streets around a Christmas market after a suspicious object was found in Potsdam, Germany, on Dec. 1, 2017. (Julian Staehle/dpa via AP)

BERLIN (JNS) — A 70-year-old Jewish man was assaulted on Tuesday in Berlin’s neighborhood of Pankow, the local police department said.

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The elderly man was walking outside when an unknown assailant insulted him with anti-Semitic language, according to The Jerusalem Post.

While he tried to defend himself verbally, the assailant punched him, injuring his head and chin. The Jewish man attempted to withstand the blows, but apparently lost his balance and fell to the ground. The assailant fled the scene when an onlooker ran towards the two men.

The attack comes shortly after prosecutors in Berlin called off an investigation into an anti-Semitic attack on Rabbi Yehuda Teichtal, who heads the Berlin Jewish community and serves as president of the Chabad Jewish Education Centre, who was spat on by assailants after he exited a synagogue in July.

Berlin Mayor Michael Müller has been criticized for not acting against rising anti-Semitism in Germany’s capital.

He hosted a meeting in September with Tehran’s anti-Semitic mayor Pirouz Hanachi, who has participated in a rally calling for Israel’s destruction and was a former member of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, a U.S.-designated terrorist organization.

Müller has also declined to take legal action against the Iranian regime-sponsored and anti-Semitic Al-Quds march, which takes place each year in Berlin.

The Jerusalem Post reported that Berlin’s city government allows 250 Hezbollah members and supporters to operate in the capital, according to the city’s intelligence agency.


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Nachum
Nachum
4 years ago

These attacks in Berlin are not being perpetrated by native Germans, but by Arabs, who were let into Germany several years ago by Angela Merkel. Who would have thought that after seventy four years, after nearly two thousand Jews were saved in Berlin by the Red Army, in 1945 (they hid in Berlin throughout the entirety of World War Two), that these ongoing attacks would continue today? What was Angela Merkel thinking when she let all of those momzarim into Germany. Not only have Arabs been attacking Jews, but also they have been attacking native Germans, whom they consider “infidels”. I have to take my hat off to the Hungarian Government. They told those scum, that they would not be permitted entry into Hungary, and heavily enforced their ban, with barriers, and barbed wire, as well as troops from the Hungarian Army. As a result, Hungary has not suffered from the same problems, as has Germany.

Anti semitism abounds in the congress
Anti semitism abounds in the congress
4 years ago

The fact that vicious anti semites are members of the US congress and their party heads allow them to spew their vitriol, recommend BDS, etc should be scary for every Jew worldwide. Anyone who votes for them is truly disturbed.

Nachum
Nachum
4 years ago

This is in response to the expert (screen name “Facts Rule”); the Muslims in Germany are in fact Arabs, as most of them are from Syria Iraq, and Lebanon. Non-Arab Muslims are from Iran and Indonesia, which one does not find in Germany. If “Facts Rule” would check the statistics published by the German Federal Police, he would see that over 95% of the attacks against Jews in Germany, have been perpetrated by Arab Muslims, and not by native born Nazi Germans.