By Zach Pontz, algemeiner.com
A group of Arabs brutally attacked an American yeshiva student visiting with his family in Venice, Italy, on Tuesday, knocking him unconscious. The incident took place at night as the student strolled the city center.
According to Arutz Sheva, 15 Arab youths were involved in the incident. The attackers fled when a passerby spotted them and called police and medics.
An individual at the Chabad House in Venice who did not wish to be named told The Algemeiner that the student was recovering and that such incidents were rare in Venice.
The source also indicated how the Jewish community would respond. “We will answer evil with kindness,” the source said.
The Milan-based Jewish Center for Documentation’s Observatory on Anti-Jewish Prejudice issued a report in December that showed the number of anti-Semitic episodes in the country rose significantly in 2012.
“We observed approximately 70 cases so far this year, most of them graffiti and online attacks, over 40% more than last year,” said Observatory researcher Stefano Gatti.
“The boom might be due partly to more efficient data-gathering, but the episodes have undeniably increased,” he added.
The Rebbe’s ho’raah on numerous occasions was that we initiate constructive projects and activities as an answer to destructive( or worse, r”l) actions. The Rebbe did NOT say to pay back cruelty with kindness, especially in the case of blatantly anti-Semitic acts. There’s a world of difference between those two messages and I suspect the person who insisted on “kindness” really meant what the Rebbe said, not what his words might be mistaken to mean. While vigilante type revenge is not the answer, making sure these y’mach sh’moiniks get their MAXIMUM legal punishment is imperative. The Yiddisheh k’hillehs in Venice… Read more »
Amen amen amen che Hashem porti moshiach ADESSO!!!
i really don’t think so look at the words again KINDNESS to EVIL
Che Hashem protegga, benedica e difenda tutti i bochur Yeshiva del mondo!
I think they meant “repay darkness with light” by doing more mitzvos
JJ, go to bed!
the true kindness would be to bring justice to this dark world
I see some form of anti semitism in Crown Heights alone almost everyday. Tonight some black people in a car waiting at a red light on President and Troy beeped loudly at a Bochur walking in front of them to try to scare him (as is typical) and then started laughing uproariously with mouths wide open. As I observed this my only thought was ‘Thank G-d I am not them!’
He’s a special man!
if he does not want to be named i will not name him, but kudos to the wonderful man who dedicates himself to the wonderful jewish community in venice!!!
I love u
i agree a hundred percent, that idea of paying back evil with kindness is a Christian moral value taught to them by st. Paul/Shaul telling them that if your hit by a Jew on the left cheek turn your right cheek so you can be hit again telling them not to respond to evil, he taught this amongst other things ( to love the Jews a lesson they didn’t take to heart, to have a separate place of worship/church, move the day of rest from Shabbos to Sunday,) in order that they should become separate from the Jewish people which… Read more »
It’s very nice that we get updated on who was beaten, killed, and unconscious. Why doesn’t anyone write names so that we can say Tehilim for them?!
that these Arab youths quickly meet their death, as quickly as possible!!! And I mean a slow painful death.
I agree!!! enough is enough
‘Refuah Shelaima’
Terrible…awful…ugly and painful.
“We will answer evil with kindness,”…!
This is not Halacha…after such an incident these Arab attackers, YM”S, are ‘chaiv misa’ according to ‘The 7 Noahide Laws’…break their jaws…knock out all their teeth…permanently disable them…at least!
Fighting is not good. But if there is not other choice left we have to fight them
Thanks to the person that wrote “We don’t turn the other cheek” You are so correct!!!
I make a mishabairach that all these wicked filth should perish from this earth!
Turning the other cheek and “repaying evil with kindness” is not a Jewish value. Abraham fought against and decimated those who kidnapped and harmed his nephew Lot. We need to find the perpetrators and bring them to justice. This is a terrible crime, yes a “hate crime” once again done by arabs against Jews. Unfortunately, we’ve gotten used to these reports as demonstrated with this lame response of repaying evil with good only make our enemies bolder (chas veshalom). The malicious hatred that led these arab thugs to attack a Jewish young man in the otherwise peaceful streets of Venice… Read more »
I think I know his sister!
This is unnecessary amounts of antisemitism! Just bec he is Jewish!!! We must learn from Rabbi Meir Kahana not to stand for this antisemitism.
I understand why you thought that that is what he meant when he said “We will answer evil with kindness”, however it can be interpreted that he wasn’t referring to the attackers, rather to Bachur that was brutally harmed, we extend kindness in the face of evil. however to the attackers may hashem repay them for their actions midah kneged midah.
Every Jew should be armed in whichever country allows it.
may he be sun recovered!
who is this bochur? (cause i might know his brother