Man harassed on train for wearing yarmulka (Australia)

[oberliner]

ANTI-Semitic attacks in Melbourne are on the rise, a Jewish community leader says, after a man was subjected to a racial barrage on a train on Tuesday.

Danny Pollack, 27, was on a train heading from North Melbourne to Flinders Street when he was approached by what he said was a group of about six olive-skinned male youths who threatened to remove his yarmulka, a religious head-covering.

"They started off saying 'shalom, shalom', and then 'f---ing Jews' and 'throw us your head cover'," Mr Pollack said. The men apparently referred to the fictional "running of the Jews" from the film Borat.

According to Mr Pollack when he ignored the group's harassment they surrounded him and acted in a more threatening manner and then hit him on the back of his head, apparently with a newspaper. Mr Pollack attempted to leave the area and said the group tried to trip him.

http://www.theage.com.au/news/national/man-harassed-on-train-for-wearing-yarmulka/2007/05/31/1180205427873.html

[sakabatou]

1. Assholes

-_-

[funflower]

2. Evil triumphs when good men do nothing.

[GainesT1958]

3. Sounds as though Howard...

Has created much the same fertile environment for neo-racists Down Under as Dub & Co. have here. Wonder what kind of attacks the Aborigines are faced with these days? Plus, his government seems to be dealing with the aftermath of major cyclones about as well as FEMA is dealing with the aftermath of Katrina.

I hope Aussies get a healthy trend going later this year...by kicking Howard and his cronies the hell out of government in Canberra. Could pave the way for some good events next year in another democracy on a Northern Hemispheric continent!

B-)

[lonestarnot]

4. Oh man I would love to see that happen. My friend and his wife just went back there,

as that is where he was from... I miss them they were good bloakes.