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Jewish father and son harassed at Italian gas station in antisemitic incident
A Jewish man from France and his young son were verbally assaulted at a gas station in Italy this week in what Jewish advocacy groups are calling a serious antisemitic incident. The pair was targeted with shouts of “Free Palestine” and “murderers” after passersby noticed the child wearing a kippah, a traditional Jewish skullcap.
The child appeared visibly distressed, while his father responded by calling out “Am Yisrael Chai,” Hebrew for “The people of Israel live.” The confrontation was captured on video and circulated widely on social media, drawing both condemnation and inflammatory responses online.
Yossi Spitezki, a French Jewish advocate, expressed alarm over the footage. “A Jewish man stops at a gas station on a highway in Italy and is harassed with shouts of ‘Free Palestine’—just because they saw his son wearing a kippah. He’s French. He has no connection to Israel,” he wrote on social media.
“Where have we come to? Don’t you think this is going a little too far? Do you want to wait another 10 years to say ‘Never again,’ or will you choose to act now against this hatred?”
https://www.ynetnews.com/jewish-world/article/sjhar0vvee#autoplay
The child appeared visibly distressed, while his father responded by calling out “Am Yisrael Chai,” Hebrew for “The people of Israel live.” The confrontation was captured on video and circulated widely on social media, drawing both condemnation and inflammatory responses online.
Yossi Spitezki, a French Jewish advocate, expressed alarm over the footage. “A Jewish man stops at a gas station on a highway in Italy and is harassed with shouts of ‘Free Palestine’—just because they saw his son wearing a kippah. He’s French. He has no connection to Israel,” he wrote on social media.
“Where have we come to? Don’t you think this is going a little too far? Do you want to wait another 10 years to say ‘Never again,’ or will you choose to act now against this hatred?”
Driving while Jewish. History sure rhymes.