A Jewish man from France and his young child were called “murderers” at an Italian motorway service station before being surrounded and harassed by a crowd chanting “Free Palestine.”
Mobile phone footage captures the lead-up to the attack, which began after the man took his child to the toilet. The confrontation appears to have started with a cashier at the service station shop. As the man left the restroom, he was attacked by a group of 15 to 20 people, knocked to the ground, and repeatedly kicked. One of the attackers shouted, “We are not in Gaza, we are in Italy.” The six-year-old child was not injured.
Police arrived about 10 minutes later, and the crowd quickly dispersed. Strangely, officers then told the victim—via his Italian son-in-law—that he should ask Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to stop bombing Gaza. The man responded, “But I’m not Israeli, I’m French.”
A police investigation is now underway. Milan city councillor Daniele Nahum asked:
Has attacking Jewish citizens truly become ‘normal’ due to Gaza events?
Tragically, some Europeans—from Belgium to Cyprus and now Italy—are answering her question in the affirmative.
