By COLlive reporter
A Chabad bochur who asked to remained unidentified was the victim of antisemitic attacks twice within an hour as he was traveling back home using the bus and the metro system on Motzoei Shabbos.
A resident of north London, he had spend Shabbos assisting Shluchim Rabbi Yisroel and Devora Lew, at Chabad Lubavitch of Bloomsbury in Marylebone, central London.
On his way back home, he was sitting on a bus bound for Oxford Street on Saturday around 11:40 p.m. when another passenger stood up and began to verbally assault him.
He later got off the bus and, as he walked down the escalator at Oxford Circus underground station in London, was subjected to “antisemitic behavior” by a group of men, according to police.
The Metropolitan Police, who said he had been subjected to “a torrent of antisemitic abuse” while traveling on the bus, and the UK Transport Police have opened separate investigations into the incidents.
Speaking to the Press Association news agency, his brother described him as “very shaken” and said he was targeted because he looked “clearly Jewish” due to his yarmulka and beard, and added that the offenders “were not concerned about the repercussions.”
“It wasn’t just a mere verbal assault,” he added. “He was very close to being physically attacked by this vicious assailant.”
The brother said the passenger leaned in close to his face and tried to punch him but the victim stopped him.
“He was shouting angrily: ‘I’ll give you an uppercut, I’ll give you an uppercut’,” he said.
The victim then managed to “de-escalate” the situation by talking to the passenger, but still was faced with “ugly racist remarks and death threats”, the brother added.
The incident ended after the bus driver called the police, he said.
How is this ok by any standard??!!
I travel through Central London daily to and from school.
BH have not recieved any serious anti-semitic comments are acts.
in 2000 I went to england for 8 days. Everyday I was harassed for being Jewish. Yes every single day. Once by a taxi driver driving by.
Today its worse, but england is mad antisemetic.
Horrible this is 2021 replace the hate with love and compassion!
Youtube for example, is full of antisemitic videos, and inundated with antisemitic comments under those and other videos. They report and get deleted, any comments that show the antisemites are lying about Jews. A few people reporting a post gets it deleted, even those that are not offensive and do not violate any of youtube’s rules for posting. We need to do the same to them, a few people reporting each of their posts will get them deleted. To report you do not have to reveal any of your info, nothing from you gets posted so no one sees it.… Read more »
If he was Muslim or black this would be all over the media.
The sun never sets on the vast and great British Empire. Today however, the sun never rises on this teeny island in fact, the sun has permanently set on this, has been, of an empire. They need to replace GB (Great Britain) with SB (Small Britain) and soon to be VSB (Very Small Britain) !!!