A frightening antisemitic attack nearly ended in tragedy when a group of frum teenage boys in Melbourne were chased by a vehicle whose occupants attempted to ram them, screaming Nazi slurs and threats, in an incident that left the local Jewish community deeply shaken.
The episode unfolded yesterday in the St. Kilda East neighborhood, just a short distance—approximately 100 meters—from the Adas Yisroel shul, a landmark that itself was targeted in a Molotov cocktail arson attack more than a year ago.
Footage from nearby security cameras, later circulated by local media, shows the boys standing at a crosswalk when a white SUV pulled up close to them, drawing their attention.
Sensing danger, the boys immediately fled, sprinting across the street in an effort to get away. Moments later, the video shows the vehicle executing a sudden U-turn and accelerating toward them, narrowly missing one of the teens.
During the chaos, one of the boys succeeded in capturing the vehicle’s license plate. Members of the Jewish community later reported that the SUV had been stolen.
Chaim Klein, whose son was among the teens and who is part of the Adas Yisroel kehillah, recounted what his child told him after the ordeal. He said the attackers yelled “Heil Hitler,” made a Nazi salute, and issued stabbing threats as they pursued the boys for several minutes.
“They were forced to run and hide, while the passengers chased them in the car, searched for them and tried to drive towards them,” Klein told the local Herald Sun. “This was a deliberate and targeted act of intimidation and hatred that put young lives in immediate danger and left the community shaken.”
{Matzav.com}
Beai Yisrael need to protest for the right to defend themselves with firearms. ( a permit issued as such) A right which they do not have in Ausstrailia, nor in Canada, nor in the U.K. (most crown land). Laws and additudes need to be changed!
Instead, earlier we get Mervis cowering under a table and saying Bondi beach was not about Jews. Where is the spirit of “Gur Ariyeh Yahudah” in Austrailia /U.K. (etc.) ? Where is the Spirit of Lewi, Shimon, Ephriam, Etc. for my brethren who are from other Tribes and blessed Converts? Hashem saved a lot of people by sending his Malach that day at Bondi, as the police only acted after citizens acted…none of those who acted were “Jewish” and it was a great Busha.
We have a MITZVA to defend ourselves even in Galut. It is a mizva no less important than Shachrit, Talmud Torah.