As Incitement Increases, Israeli Chareidi Punched In Face, Told That ‘Coronavirus Came Because Of You’

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JERUSALEM (VINnews) — Israeli chareidi journalists have warned over the past year that the daily media incitement against chareidim, fueled both by anti-Chareidi election agendas and by the misconception that Chareidim who have suffered disproportionately from coronavirus were somehow responsible for the pandemic, could lead to violence against them. The vitriolic attacks have been led by politicians including Avigdor Liberman, who recently announced he would “take chareidim on a wheelbarrow to nearest garbage dump.”

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A chareidi travelling on a bus Sunday morning from Kfar Chabad to Bnei Brak when he was confronted by a secular youth who punched him in the stomach. The chareidi asked him:”What are you doing?” but then the assailant punched him hard in the face, causing a serious nosebleed. The other passengers removed the assailant from the bus and the chareidi, who works for the chareidi radio station Kol Chai, somehow managed to continue on his way.

Transport Minister Miri Regev responded to the indiscriminate attack, stating that “I directed the head of the National Public Transport Unit to work with police and act against the criminal who attacked a chareidi passenger on public transport. We will not allow people to be harmed on public transport.”

UTJ responded by stating that “this is a direct result of the wild incitement by Liberman against chareidim and Jewish tradition. If we do not stop him Tuesday at the voting booth, we could reach really dangerous situations.”

Shas declared that “after a year of evil incitement against the chareidi sector, depicting them as ‘spreaders of disease’, with (Yesh Atid leader) Yair Lapid continuing this morning to describe a large Jewish community as ‘obscurantist, racist and manipulative’, it is no surprise that someone violently assaults a youth on a bus simply because he is wearing a kippah.”


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Think clearly
Think clearly
3 years ago

Dumb seculars (chiloni’s)

Your survival depends on the charedis. They’re doing your job for you.

Dr. Fauciwitz
Dr. Fauciwitz
3 years ago

Trump said ‘Coronavirus came to us because of China’. Same difference, Same ignorance. Same result- more HATE.

An insight
An insight
3 years ago

Maybe all this hate, pointing in more directions that a Spirograph, is the result of not doing collective teshuva for the sin’ah that destroyed the second Bayit.