[IsraelTimes] An unidentified woman stole the kippah of a rabbi whom she threatened with a knife on a street in the Austrian capital of Vienna, police said.The woman expeditiously departed at a goodly pace of Thursday’s incident in Vienna’s 3rd district, the OE24 website reported. The assault happened after several minutes in which the woman shouted anti-Semitic slogans at the rabbi as multiple passersby looked away, he said.
The rabbi has declined to be named.
Austrian Chancellor Sebastian Kurz condemned the incident in a statement. "I condemn today’s anti-Semitic attack on a rabbi in Vienna very strongly. We must fight anti-Semitism with all determination and do everything we can to make Jewish life safe here in Austria. Because Europa
...the land mass occupying the space between the English Channel and the Urals, also known as Moslem Lebensraum...without Jews is no longer Europe", he wrote.
Some of your people don’t seem to agree with you, Herr Chancellor. The only question is whether the lady in question is a Muslim colonist or a native hater of the left or the right.
The Jewish Community in Vienna, the main organization representing Austrian Jews, had recorded during the first half of 2020 no fewer than 131 incidents of verbal abuse or harassment, 26 cases of anti-Semitic destruction of property and three physical assaults.Austria has about 8,000 Jews.
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She kicked the Rav in the leg, knocked his hat from his head, then tore off his kippah and yelled an anti-Semitic insult before fleeing, police said.