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Ynet reports on yet another antisemitic incident in Europe.

A former Israeli tennis player and her wife have been the victims of an anti-Semitic attack in their own home in a suburb of Antwerp, Belgium. Police have refused to accept a complaint against those who made the attack.

Ruth Sverdloff, a former Israeli tennis champion, and her wife, Cindey Meul, moved into an apartment in Aartselaar, near Antwerp, in the middle of May.In accordance with the Jewish tradition, they affixed a small mezuzah on the door of their apartment. They then suffered three weeks of anti-Semitic insults and harassment from their neighbors, culminating in Cindey Meul being attacked in the apartment, beaten and left unconscious with a broken nose.

“They were banging on the door; it was like in a movie,” Sverdloff recalls. “I was really scared every minute that the door would break.’Go out, open the door quickly, dirty Jew,’ they said in Flemish, and then explained to me, ‘Jewish are not going to live here.’

“You could hear that it was more than one person. It was two people and then after that it was four people. You could hear the women’s voice, the man’s voice. We were sleeping. We were shocked totally. We weren’t even expecting it.”

Meul adds, “I opened the door and he, Kevin, threatened me, saying: ‘What the Germans didn’t finish we will do.’ He said he was going to punch my face… I didn’t expect it to come of course. She grabbed me here, and gave me one punch, on the nose, and I was totally knocked out.”

“When I came back I saw a lot of police cars,” Sverdloff continues. “I saw two ambulances, a lot of people on the street. I ran quickly upstairs, and immediately they stopped me, ‘Who are you?’ ‘I’m her wife!’ So they let me come in.

“I was totally shocked. I saw a lot of blood, on the floor, in the apartment. I saw my wife, full of blood on her face, holding her stomach, almost can’t walk. I asked her ‘Who did it to you?’ I immediately asked her ‘Who did it to you?’ and she told me the woman and Kevin.”

Threatened with arrest
When the couple tried to complain to the local police, they were themselves threatened with arrest, with the police refusing to accept any complaint against the attackers.

The couple has now engaged leading Belgian lawyer Michael Modrikamen to pursue their complaints against the attackers and against the police of Aartselaar.

Antisemitic twerps.

Dickie Sliverstein adds: Typical hasbarita to ignore the real story here, which is that Belgians are not homophobic!

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David Lange

A law school graduate, David Lange transitioned from work in the oil and hi-tech industries into fulltime Israel advocacy. He is a respected commentator and Middle East analyst who has often been cited by the mainstream media
Picture of David Lange

David Lange

A law school graduate, David Lange transitioned from work in the oil and hi-tech industries into fulltime Israel advocacy. He is a respected commentator and Middle East analyst who has often been cited by the mainstream media
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