Police are looking for a man in connection with what is being described as “a completely unprovoked violent” antisemitic attack.
The victim, in his early 30s, was waiting at a bus stop in Finsbury Park, north London, on busy Blackstock Rd near the Centre for Lifelong Learning shortly before 6pm on Monday evening.
Asking the JC to use only his first name, Ari said: “I was chatting on my phone, so I wasn’t aware of what was going on around me, when I felt someone beating me on my shoulders and head and saying: ‘I’m going to kill you. Kill the Jew’.”
Ari, who is Israeli and was wearing a kippa, said that he “started running away” from the attacker “but he kept running after me for 30 to 50 metres. I ran onto a bus and got back home.”
