A man, who does not wish to be identified, was physically assaulted and verbally abused, as he travelled to his workplace in St Kilda.
Wearing a kippah, the man was on his way to a tram stop on Dandenong Road, when he was attacked.
The victim had noticed three young males around 18 years of age, who appeared to be intoxicated and were shouting abuse at passers-by.
When they noticed his kippah, they started shouting abuse at him. He broke into a jog, trying to distance himself from the scene, but the trio pursued him, shouted anti-Semitic vitriol at the man and called him “a fucking Jew”.
At the corner of Dandenong Road, he turned to face them, and was knocked to the ground and elbowed in the face twice, sustaining cuts and bruising.
The attack, which lasted around a minute-and-a-half, spilled out into the peak-hour traffic of Dandenong Road, and motorists had to brake to avoid hitting the group.
Nobody got out of their car to help the victim.
Source:
www.ajn.com.au
By Peter Kohn
