What? That story makes absolutely no sense.
A Jewish man stepped outside to “make a phone call” and just by pure chance a group of antisemitic thugs happened to be walking past and instinctively somehow knew this man was Jewish and beat him up so lightly that the police could interview the victim within 6 minutes of the incident and proceeded to not take him to the hospital so he visited of his own volition?
Firstly it smells of bollocks, secondly since when has street beatings become national news? They’re usually lucky to make local news, let alone national. Could it be somebody is trying to push a propaganda narrative? Hmm…
A Jewish man stepped outside to “make a phone call” and just by pure chance a group of antisemitic thugs happened to be walking past and instinctively somehow knew this man was Jewish
He was speaking Hebrew, that’s how they identified him as Jewish.
beat him up so lightly that the police could interview the victim within 6 minutes of the incident and proceeded to not take him to the hospital so he visited of his own volition?
It’s a populated area of London, they likely couldn’t do more before people intervened.
I’ve read the original report that the Guardian story is based on now and despite having more detail it still reads very weird.
There’s something either being omitted or embellished.
Like the assailants and victim may have known each other but for some reason the victim isn’t disclosing that. Fuck knows. It’s shite being on the receiving end of a beating though, hopefully they recover soon.
