A 30-year-old Jewish man was punched in the face and subjected to antisemitic abuse while traveling on the subway in Berlin on Tuesday night.
Local news outlet Berliner Woche reported that the man — who has not been named — was disembarking from a train at the Kurfürstendamm underground station just after 9 p.m. Another passenger who was boarding the train at the same time punched him in the face and insulted him with an anti-Jewish pejorative.
The victim, who was traveling with two family members, filed a complaint with the Berlin police over the internet. According to the police, a state security commissioner at the State Criminal Police Office is now investigating the matter.
Antisemitic attacks on Germany’s Jewish community have risen precipitously during the last decade. During 2018 — the most recent year for which statistics are available — 1,799 antisemitic incidents ranging from verbal abuse to physical assault were reported.
Meanwhile, a survey published last October by the World Jewish Congress revealed that more than one in four German respondents expressed agreement with statements that were based upon classic anti-Jewish tropes.
The claim that “Jews talk too much about the Holocaust” was agreed with by 41 percent of respondents, with the same proportion also believing that “Jews are more loyal to Israel than to Germany.”
Asked whether Jews had “too much power in international financial markets,” 26 percent said that was the case.
The Algemeiner (c) 2019 .
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A willing day of health. You eat well they will fall down.
About 10 years ago I was on a Washington, DC subway train on my way back to my hotel after some meetings. The coach was nearly full. As I sat there half asleep I heard a loud voice talking about Jews. I turned toward the center aisle and saw a black man, must have been in his late 20’s, and holding the hand of a 8-10 year old child, pointing at me and yelling obscenities about Jews. I turned away and just sat there looking out the window at the walls outside. I was scared to do anything. What if this nut had a gun or a knife? I just sat there for what seemed to be a very long time listening to this deranged schvartze screaming and pointing at me. Not one other person said anything. It seemed like everyone there was afraid to start up with him. When the train stopped, I quickly jumped out of my seat and exited the train. I could catch the next one on the same track. I ran up to 2 uniformed policemen and told them that a crazy black man just kidnapped a little boy about 8 years old and he’s screaming obscenities at train passengers. He said he was going to kill the child. The 2 policemen went running somewhere as one of them called the info in to the next station to hold the train. I got on the next train and went to my hotel. As we passed the next station after some short delay, I could see out of the train’s window that there was a large pol man schvartze.
Very good, kol hakavod