Adam filmed the incident on Tuesday with his mobile phone. It showed a man a man hitting him with a belt, while repeatedly calling him “Jew” in Arabic. The video subsequently went viral on social media.
“I wanted to have evidence for the police, and for the German people and the world to see how terrible it is these days as Jews to go through Berlin’s streets,” Adam told Deutsche Welle.
He confirmed that he was “not Jewish, but I am an Israeli, from an Arab family.”
The attack took place in Prenzlauer Berg, a Jewish area of Berlin popular among Israelis living in Berlin. It is also home to an Orthodox Jewish community centred around the Lauder Yeshivas Beis Zion and the synagogue Kahal Adass Jisroel Berlin.
Mike Samuel Delberg, a member of Berlin’s Jewish community council, urged the police and investigators to find the perpetrator and “go after him with the full force of law.”
