Jewish leaders report anti-Semitic attack

from ABC..
Attack outside Glick's Balaclava

Witnesses say two men armed with baseball bats were involved in a racially motivated attack at a kosher bakery in Melbourne last night.

Jewish leaders have released a statement saying there were two incidents at Glick's in Carlisle street in Balaclava last night.

In the first incident around 11:30pm AEST, Glick's staff allege two men yelled anti-Semitic abuse, damaged cars and smashed part of the restaurant's shopfront.

Orthodox Jew Alon Tam was assaulted half an hour later while walking home from the restaurant.

"They started hitting me with a baseball bat, and they called me an f-ing Jew and they were telling me that I deserved to die," he said.

"They hit me seven, eight, nine times, and then I ran back down to the restaurant Glick's, and everyone was here and I was totally shocked."

Jewish Community Council of Victoria spokesman Anton Block says those who experienced and witnessed the violence are shaken up.

"We're not talking about adults as such, we're talking about teenagers who were having a night out with their friends on a Saturday night, to go to their local haunt as it were," he said.

"To be having to experience this sort of abuse is just extraordinary."

Police are investigating the alleged incidents.

Bagelblogger: Each year there seems to be an ever increasing number of anti semitic based attacks in Victoria. The lack of prosecutions of these crimes and of anti semitic hate crimes in general has to be a worrying statistic.

References:
ABC News: Jewish leaders report anti-Semitic attack

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