A Melbourne rabbi has been left shaken and disturbed after a man hurled anti-Semitic abuse at him during a road-rage incident on Monday night.
The Jewish man was stopped at the lights on the Nepean Highway when a car pulled up beside him and starting shouting at him for looking at his phone, the man claimed.
The rabbi, who wished to remain anonymous out of fear of retribution, started filming the aggression.
“Would you like me to get out and show you what Hitler did?” the man screamed.
“You should have died in the Auschwitz.”
The rabbi claims the man also said he was a “dirty Jew” and “Hitler should have killed you all”.
At the end of the short video, the woman laughs and waves while the man gives him the middle finger repeatedly.
The attacked man, who has lived around the world, said he never expected to receive such treatment on Melbourne streets.
“In Europe I saw anti-Semitism but I thought in Australia, in 2019, I would never think something like that would happen,” he told the Herald Sun.
“It’s painful that they hate Jews for no reason. They were attacking me with anti-Semitism, just because I’m a Jew.
“It was very threatening. It’s painful for me that such a guy can scream such a thing in the street.”
Read the report by Tamsin Rose in the Herald Sun.