Netherlands: Utrecht Rabbi struck on head in antisemitic attack
A rabbi was struck on the head in an antisemitic attack at the Overvecht Shopping Center in Utrecht on Friday, according to local authorities.
Utrecht Police said that they were looking for witnesses into an incident in which a man attacked another after shouting discriminatory slurs. A Friday post shared on Rabbi Aryeh Leib Heintz's Facebook page identified the Chabad emissary as the victim.
Heintz reportedly fled into an Action supermarket but was pursued. Sieverink-McNair said that when the rabbi attempted to take a picture of his assailant, he was ejected from the store because photography was against store policy.People wear kippas as they attend a demonstration in front of a Jewish synagogue, to denounce an anti-Semitic attack on a young man wearing a kippa in the capital earlier this month, in Berlin, Germany, April 25, 2018. (credit: FABRIZIO BENSCH / REUTERS)
The BIJ1 political party claimed on Saturday that two women of Moroccan extraction intervened, adding that "only by fighting together against injustice can we create a just world free from injustice and all forms of oppression."
