Britain – Abusive behavior, October 2011 (24 incidents)

01/10/2011 Hendon, London

The victim was driving along a busy high street and when she pulled into a parking space, the words “move over Yid” were shouted from the passenger of a passing white van.       

The passenger seemed to be drunk and was slurring his words.

 

 

01/10/2011 Salford     

The visibly Jewish victim was walking along the road when a vehicle drove past and one of the occupants shouted “dirty Jew” at him.

 

05/10/2011 Farnham, Surrey

A Jewish student was antisemitically verbally abused in the campus of his University.

 

06/10/2011 Mill Hill, London

Some antisemitic graffiti has been seen at a bus stop in a prominently Jewish area. The words “No Jews on the bus” have been written.

 

07/10/2011 Salford

The victims, who are both visibly Jewish, were walking along a busy road when a vehicle drove past and something was shouted at the victims from within.

 

08/10/2011 Leeds      

A vehicle drove past a Synagogue and the two male occupants made abusive hand gestures at the security team.

 

08/10/2011 Manchester

A vehicle drove past a Synagogue and the driver made an abusive hand gesture to the security team on the gate.

 

10/10/2011 Cricklewood, London      

The victim, who was visibly Jewish, was on the bus when a group of youths boarded and started calling out to him. The comments included “Hitler’s on the bus” which they shouted atleast twice.

And a staged conversation to try to provoke a reaction from the victim which went: “I hate Jews” “Why do you hate Jews?” “Because Jews are pussies”.

The victim did not react to the comments and the bus was full of other passengers at the time. The offenders got off the bus a few stops later.

 

11/10/2011 Stevenage

The victim, who is visibly Jewish, was walking down the street when a youth shouted “Dirty Jew” at him.

 

11/10/2011

The victim received an antisemitic phone call in which the caller quoted information from a Synagogue website.

After receiving the phone call, the victim wondered how the caller knew he was Jewish and went onto the internet to find out.          

When typing his name into google, a number of websites came up, including his name and address on 192.com and the Yarzheit page on the Synagogue website.

 

11/10/2011

The victim was in a shop that is local to him. He has been using the shop for three years and regularly has banter with the owner/manager. He said to the owner, “you have many pictures on the wall of famous people who live around here” to which an employee responded “maybe you will be up there soon for being a Jewish Terrorist.”  

The victim left and returned the next day to speak to the owner and tell him he did not like the way the employee spoke to him. The owner  replied “go away you fucking Jewish cunt” to which the victim raised his voice and called him a “Muslim racist”.

The victim then returned the next day to apologise and the owner came out of the shop and took the victim by the jacket and shouted for him to “go away” he then punched the victim twice in the chest.

 

12/10/2011 Brighouse

The victim, who is known to be Jewish by his work mates, has been involved in workplace banter, which over the past couple of years has turned into antisemitism.                            

This has been reported and is now a formal employment issue.

 

15/10/2011 Liverpool

The victim was at home when he heard someone knock at his door. On answering the door, there was no one there, however, someone on the field opposite his house shouted “Heil Hitler”.

The offender continued to run to the victims door and ring the doorbell a couple more times.

 

16/10/2011 Prestwich, Manchester

The victim had soup thrown at him from a passing vehicle which hit him on the arm.

 

17/10/2011 Hampstead Garden Suburb, London      

The victim was walking home from work when a car drove past and the occupant shouted “you stinking Jew” at him.

 

18/10/2011 Salford

A vehicle was seen driving around the area, throwing eggs at Jewish pedestrians and swerving towards them in a dangerous manner.

 

 

20/10/2011 Leeds 

The reporter, a Jewish student living in student accomodation, was at home when the doorbell rang followed by a succession of aggressive knocks on the door.

The reporter went downstairs to see who was there and a heard a male voice shout “fuck it, no ones here, lets go to the Jew place opposite the… (name of pub)”.

The reporter went back upstairs to try to get a look at the vehicle. With two friends, he then followed the vehicle to a Jewish location. He got out of the car and the offenders in the other car had to swerve to miss the reporter, causing the driver to make a rude hand gesture at the reporter.

 

21/10/2011 Salford

The victim, who is visibly Jewish, was walking along a busy road when a vehicle drove past and one of the occupants shouted “dirty Jew” at her.

 

22/10/2011 London

The victim is an Orthodox Jew. He parked in the carpark of a supermarket when he noticed two men in a car, one of which came to approach him. The offender said he was a police officer and that he had to fine the victim for his car being overloaded.

The victim did not pay but went on to do his shopping. When he turned to look back, one of the offenders was still standing by his car and shouted to the victim not to worry as “I am a police officer.”

When the victim returned with his shopping around twenty five minutes later, there were two postits        on the vehicle. One said “fucking Jew” with a drawing of a penis below. The other said “My name is PC Smith” and went on to impersonate a police officer.

 

23/10/2011 Edgware, London

The reporter and his wife were walking through the park when they noticed some racial abuse. Between four and five youths were seen harrassing an Indian couple. They then turned their attention to a visibly Jewish man who was there with his children. They said “you should have been gassed in Auschwitz.” The Jewish victim confronted the children and told them they should be ashamed of themselves. When they carried on giving verbal abuse, the victim took out his phone and said he would take a photograph to send to the police.       

The youths then put their hoods up and ran off. The victim managed to corner one of the offenders who apologised to the victim.   

When the reporter left they saw the group outside the park throwing acorns at a Muslim family, they then ran off and pulled their trousers down, mooning the family and the reporter.

 

23/10/2011 Hatfield, Hertfordshire 

The victim was attending a pub quiz at her University student union. All the tables were told to read out their team names and one table read theirs as “roses are red, violets are blue, gas in the shower, cos you’re a Jew”.

 

23/10/2011 Glasgow

The reporter found the residue of an egg which had been thrown at a Jewish community centre.

 

26/10/2011 Crumpsall, Manchester

The victim, a visibly Jewish, fifteen year old girl, was walking from school to catch a bus home, when a vehicle drove by and the male passenger shouted antisemitc verbal abuse at her before driving off.

 

27/10/2011 Crumpsall, Manchester  

The victims were attending a school open evening and as they walked across the grounds they heard some shouts from outside the school gates. The shouts were “Oi you fucking Jews!”

Because of the way the school floodlights shine they were unable to see who was shouting.

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