The head of a Portuguese Jewish community has accused authorities in the country of an antisemitic campaign of harassment after police said they were investigating the granting of citizenship to Roman Abramovich.
In a letter to Portuguese politicians, President Gabriel Senderowicz said:“This is the greatest attack against a Jewish community in the 21st century and it is being carried out against the strongest Jewish community in Europe today."
Addressed to the Portuguese parliament’s Committee on Constitutional Issues, Rights, Liberties and Guarantees, the letter accused the Portuguese state of "a Holocaust against Jewish families."
Senderowicz also hit out at officials of shaming Porto Chief Rabbi Daniel Litvak, who was arrested earlier this year and released after 24 hours, saying that the harassment of the rabbi “included a humiliating arrest in which he was forced to give the police forensic evidence in violation of the law, denied access to food [the rabbi eats only kosher food], was stripped of his traditional attire including tzitzit [four-cornered fringed garment], tallit [prayer shawl], tefillin [phylacteries], and even his prayer book was taken from him."
