Poland – The Chief Rabbi of Wroclaw, Poland, Icchak Rapaport (31), was attacked by a young hooligan in a train. The police didn't find the offender.
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Rabbi Icchak Rapaport (31) was attacked by the young man while he was sitting in a Wroclaw-Warsaw train.
"I was simply sitting and reading a book in the first class compartment", the rabbi said. "This guy saw me wearing a yarmulke. He started shouting: What are you, a kike?"
For nearly ten minutes the youngster insulted the rabbi, threatened his life and waved his fists just in front of the rabbi's face.
"I was afraid to react, because I didn't know if he had a knife,'' the rabbi said.
The situation became more tense and scary. The rabbi stood up and said he needs to stretch his legs. "Sit down you Jewish wh…," yelled the attacker.
The rabbi kept being calm, stretched and sat down. Then the youngster went away.
"The worst thing was that there were a lot of people around and no one reacted," the rabbi complained. "It really sounded seriously."
Rabbi Rapaport was born in Sweden and over a year ago he started working in Poland. [ejp]
It’s the same old same old. That country is so infested with anti-Semitism, that the situation is hopeless. It’s One Hundred times worse than Germany, where there are strong laws against anti-Semitism and
the Government [at least] makes a serious effort to combat this crime on several levels.