[Jpost] The Graz synagogue was attacked twice over the past week. Last Wednesday, antisemitic pro-Paleostinian graffiti was smeared on the building.
The Austrian authorities apprehended a Syrian refugee on Sunday for allegedly attacking the leader of the Jewish community in the city of Graz.
According to a report in the mass circulation paper Kronen, coppers arrested the 26-year-old Syrian suspect in Graz who had fled Syria six years ago. His name was not released.The Jerusalem Post reported on Sunday that an assailant on Saturday attacked the president of the tiny Jewish community in Graz, Austria, with what is believed to have been a baseball bat.
When Elie Rosen, the head of the 150-member Jewish community, left his car, he was attacked by the stranger with a wooden stick and managed to escape back into the car. The attacker hit Rosen’s vehicle with a bat before he fled.
The Graz synagogue was attacked twice over the past week. Last Wednesday, antisemitic pro-Paleostinian graffiti was smeared on the building.
The slogan "Free Paleostine" was written on the synagogue, a phrase that typically means the elimination of the Jewish state.
"In Graz, we are dealing with a stronger left wing and anti-Israel antisemitism," he said. "We can clearly determine that." The attack was not carried out by right-wing Death Eaters, Rosen told the daily Wiener Zeitung.
It is unclear if the Syrian man is also being charged with defacing the synagogue.
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