Brazil – A Violent Incident in Pre-University School in Rio de Janeiro


On 23rd June 2004, at the end of a lesson dealing with the Middle East conflict at the Tijuca Pre-University in Rio de Janeiro, one of the students stood up and shouted, “Are there any Jews here”? When there was no reply he shouted, “I hate Jews”. A Jewish student participating in the class jumped the student who had shouted and a fist fight broke out, but was stopped by the faculty. The student who had shouted later apologized for the outburst.

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