NEW YORK (VINnews) — A Jewish paramedic in Australia testified that a firefighter pulled a hunting knife on him and threatened to “skin” him during a music festival in Victoria, according to a Ynet report.
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The paramedic spoke at hearings of the royal commission investigating antisemitism and social cohesion in the country, which began on Monday. The commission was established following the massacre at a Hanukkah party at Bondi Beach in Sydney, in which 15 people were murdered, and amid the surge in antisemitic incidents in the country.
The paramedic, Joshua Gomperts, 33, said the incident occurred while he was volunteering at a New Year’s Eve festival. He said that while he was with other emergency personnel, one firefighter made a remark about his Judaism, pulled out a large knife and told him: “I would skin you the way my family skinned yours in the camps.”
According to ABC Australia, police officers at the scene heard the remarks and responded immediately. The firefighter’s supervisors later arrived and replaced the firefighting team at the festival.
Gomperts testified that it was not the first time he had experienced antisemitism. He said that as a teenager, he was attacked and injured while wearing a kippah after being hit with a glass bottle. He also said that, while working as a paramedic, he encountered antisemitic behavior when a patient in his 90s gave a Nazi salute during a hospital transfer. When Gomperts asked why he had done it, the elderly man said he was “an old Nazi” and did not want a Jew touching him. Gomperts and his colleague left, and another team continued the treatment.
but will the racist pig be fired, or do jewish people have to run the risk that this firefighter will harm them as well in the event that they’re in a fire?
DONT THINK THE ANTI SEMITE FROM ANY NATION ARE DIFFERENT ALL OF THEM ARE THE SAME IN RUSSIA ITS ZHID IN AMERICA ITS JEW IN THE MIDDLE EAST IT YAHUD NEVER TRUST ANY NATION
Antisemitism has always been there. Sometimes it’s quiet, and sometimes, as now, it’s out in the open. Most of them don’t care about the Palestinians. They’re just using the Gaza war as an excuse to show the antisemitism that was always inside. We can try to put a stop to it, but, at best, it will just be stuffed back into a dark corner, waiting to be exposed again. This is Golus.
hkbh. Please annihilate these JEW HATING RODENTS
HE SHOULD HAVE ANSWERED TO THAT FILTHY JEW HATER THAT HE WILL END UP LIKE THEIR LEADERS IN HELL