Jewish father attacked by mob at Italian service station
Jewish father attacked by mob at Italian service station
www.theguardian.com
Jewish father attacked by mob at Italian service station
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I get that being against Israel's actions in Gaza and the West Bank is not in itself anti-Semitism. That's clear. Lots of people in these communities like to emphasize the point that being Jewish and supporting Israel's actions are not the same thing.
Then something like this happens, and the mask comes off. People in this community think this man has some duty to fix the Palestinian crisis before he can expect to walk around in Italy with a kippah on.
Conflating Jewish people with the action in Gaza is anti-Semitic. Don't bullshit us on other threads how you're focused only on Zionism if you're not going to condemn this here. And spare us the "I don't condone it, but I understand it" crap too. You understand a racist mindset too well.
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The issue is that the article is leaving out a lot of information and relies on Israeli-extremist claims such as by the ADL, who infamously defended Elon Musk for his Nazi salute, despite Musk also spreading 20th century Antisemitic conspiracies. Meanwhile the ADL calls any criticism of Israel antisemitic and their statistics are deliberately conflating the two.
We only have the description of what happened by the person injured. We have seen many times over the past years in Europe that Israeli tourist or local Israel-extremists have been instigating violence or deliberately provoking people in order to paint themselves as victims of Antisemitism.
Until we get the full picture from the police investigation, we should not jump to conclusions either way. It is possible that this was an antisemitic attack, which needs to be condemned, but it is also possible that this is another case of deliberate escalation to claim Antisemitism where it wasn't the case.
Recently a French teenager group caused havoc on a flight from Valencia to Paris, endangering the passengers and crew.
https://apnews.com/article/spain-france-airline-c3300d54258216358b83b8ad8da791cfThe Maccabi TelAviv Hooligans roaming through Amsterdam, attacking locals and destroying property, then being painted as victims while celebrating their raids on the flight back home also left a very sour mark.
Either way, Israels strategy of lumping together Judaism and Israel is working to make Jews around the world less safe, which is crucial for Israel to claim itself as a "safe haven" for Jews.
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I mean, the people going mask off are getting heavily downvoted and pushback in the comments. There's still too many for my liking, but the prevailing sentiment seems to be consistently anti-racist.
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I hope that's how it pans out.
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Commenting on the incident, Noemi Di Segni, the president of the Union of Italian Jewish Communities, said: “If simply being visibly Jewish is enough to provoke such a violent attack – if a family cannot safely move through public spaces in this country – then the legitimisation of hatred and antisemitism has become viral. This is about everyone’s freedom being at risk. Holding on to respect and dignity for every person is the only path that protects us all.”
Yah, well let us start with Palestine and the Palestinian people, Noemi. These incidences are purely perpetuated by Israel's actions. This statement shows zero self-awareness of the plight Israel is causing in the world.
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This man is a french citizen. How is he reponsible for anything Israelis do? How come that racism is ok if the target of the racism is of the Jewish faith?
This is an innocent family being attacked by racist and you are telling us that's ok. Disgusting.
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Israelis are largely from Europe and the US and many have dual nationalities. A French citizen can also be an Israeli and even if thats not the case here, Israel has generous citizenship laws for Jews so it's trivial for them to make Aliyah and obtain an Israeli passport.
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Did I say it was "okay"? I didn't, but the blame of Jewish ire should be focused properly. On Israel and Netanyahu.
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REALLY important to distinguish between a country wrapping itself in a religion and the religion itself.
Israel is responsible for the violence, and is a Jewish state. However, not all Jews are Israeli.
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Two things can be wrong at the same time.
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This is legitimately fucked up, on its own too or course but more deeply because we have good reason to believe this is a sign for things to come. Westerners, watch out before you're back from work and suddenly it's Kristallnacht. It's really fucked up that the Zionist-faacist alliance is throwing Jews under the bus in this way, but this trend cannot be allowed to stand or we'll be looking at a repeat of this.
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I thought that the headline was talking about the mafia for a second, there.
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This story seems extremely fishy to me. This guy is claiming that an entire group of strangers including transit employees just lost their minds and grouped together to violently assault him at the mere sight of a kippah? That seems extremely implausible and reminds me of the other recent incidents where Israeli men were running around a neighborhood assaulting people and making death threats toward residents before the residents turned on them. The media just reported it as "Jewish men attacked for being Jewish" before the real story came out days later.
If the situation were really this bad in Milan, this would be more that just a single incident against one individual.
And simultaneously, they should have expected it and certainly understand why it happened, if it did.
I don't know why anyone should expect to be attacked for the war crimes committed by a country they have nothing to do with.
Same thing happened at a concert here the other night:
https://www.oregonlive.com/entertainment/2025/07/this-is-not-an-internet-comments-section-pro-palestine-protests-interrupt-portland-regina-spektor-show.html
Just because someone is Jewish doesn't mean they have a god damned thing to do with Israel and Gaza. We saw the same bullshit after 9/11 with people attacking Muslims (or people they thought were Muslims).