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Man wearing kippah attacked on Buenos Aires street after Shabbat service
Assault took place following Shabbat services at an Orthodox synagogue in the Palermo neighbourhood of the Argentinian city
A men wearing a kippah was beaten and subject to antisemitic epithets on a street in Buenos Aires, Argentina.
The attack took place on Friday night following Shabbat services at Mikdash Yosef, an Orthodox synagogue in the Palermo neighbourhood of Buenos Aires
Elias Refael “Eli” Chamen, 34, was violently beaten in the face and heard shouts of “f***ing jews” and other antisemitic invective against “the Jews.”
Chamen, a businessman and father of six, fell to the ground from the force of the attack and broke his hand. He received treatment at a local hospital and later filed a report with the local police and also at the Jewish political umbrella, DAIA.
Chamen told local media that other people who witnessed the attack laughed or continued to walk by on the streets in the crowded, upper middle class area near the synagogue.
Nearly two months ago, a homeless couple entered the same synagogue and threatened the worshipers. The synagogue’s rabbi was injured scuffling with the homeless man following Shabbat services.
In February, nine gravestones in a Jewish cemetery in San Luis city, in northwest Argentina, were vandalised.
antisemitic incidents in Argentina rose by 14 percent in 2017 over the previous year, according to a DAIA report, the most recent national statistics. Online antisemitic incidents made up 88 percent of the 2017 total, nearly double the 47 percent in 2014.
Argentina has had an anti-discrimination law on the books since 1988.
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