‘Go to the gas chamber’: Rabbi and children targeted in antisemitic verbal attack on Melbourne tram
The Jerusalem Post reports: “A Rabbi and his children were reportedly verbally attacked by a passenger on a Melbourne tram who told the family to ‘go to a gas chamber,’ the Australian Jewish Association claimed on Friday.
The woman, who carried a bag with a Palestinian flag on it, denied the claims in the video.
‘I was riding the tram home in St Kilda East, with my 8-year-old and 14-year-old daughter and this woman, with her Free Palestine kaffiyeh bag, tells us ‘You should all go to the gas chambers!’‘
In the recording, she hid her face and claimed the rabbi and his children were ‘picking on her’ and asked the man recording to ‘stop being a bully.’
The Rabbi reported that his 8 year old was in tears, and is afraid to go on the trams again.
‘I am not aggressive by nature, but I wanted to teach my kids to be proud Jews. So I confronted her and then announced to the full tram what she had said,’ he explained…”
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