The identity of this passenger is unclear. However, many of the commenters here note that the antisemitic passenger has a Lebanese accent, and is thus likely one of the many Muslim migrants from Lebanon who have settled in Australia. The rise in antisemitism in Western countries has accompanied the rise in Muslim migration. Islamic antisemitism is rooted in Islamic texts, and is frequently manifested in majority-Muslim countries. Now, with Muslim immigration into Western countries, incidents of Islamic antisemitism have become an increasingly common feature of daily life. Sweden, France and Germany are particularly affected, due to their lax immigration policies that saw vast numbers of Muslim migrants flow in. German authorities tried to cover up the increase of Islamic antisemitism by instructing law enforcement officials to record incidents of Islamic antisemitism as “right wing.”
And several days ago:
An academic study of Muslim refugees in the southern Austrian city of Graz conducted three years ago warned that the strongly antisemitic views held by half of them were “alarming.” Graz was the same city where a Muslim migrant recently attacked a Jewish leader with a baseball bat.
In Sweden, members of the Jewish community have been hiding their Jewish identity as incidents of violent Islamic antisemitism have increased.
Last year in Australia, a Jewish boy was forced to kiss the feet of a Muslim student amid reports of rising antisemitism. Now comes the news that “a passenger filmed himself in Melbourne, Australia calling his Uber driver a ‘Jewish scumbag’ and demanding that his ride end early because he didn’t want to ‘ride with a Jew.'”
“Australian Uber Passenger Calls Driver ‘Jewish Scumbag’ in Video, Asks for Ride to End Early,” Jewish Journal, August 25, 2020:
A passenger filmed himself in Melbourne, Australia calling his Uber driver a “Jewish scumbag” and demanding that his ride end early because he didn’t want to “ride with a Jew.”
The Daily Mail Australia reported on Aug. 25 that the video begins with the passenger asking the driver if he’s Jewish after hearing his name. The driver answers in the affirmative.
“Just stop on the left man, just stop here,” the passenger said. “I don’t like Jews. I’m not going to ride with a Jew.”
The driver told the passenger to “enjoy yourself.”
“Jewish scumbag,” the passenger replied. The passenger then called the driver a “f—ing Jewish dog” as he left the vehicle.
“I’d rather walk,” he said at the end of the video. “F—ing dog.”
According to a press release from the Anti-Defamation Commission (ADC), the driver, who is in 60s, said that he “was quite shaken by this and was concerned that [the passenger] would assault me.” The driver reported the incident to Uber and plans to report the incident to police as well….
mortimer says
This is only one of thousands of such incidents against Jews that they do not report except to their families.
gravenimage says
Grimly true, Mortimer. Most of these cases never come to light.
mortimer says
I’m pleased this was caught on camera. I wish everyone could see this. Due to the ‘law’ of selective perception, however, most people will filter such messages out of their consciousness in order to confirm their pre-existing bias.
Aside from such interpersonal examples of Jew-hatred, the Islamic source texts have more Jew hatred than Mein Kampf.
Keith O says
Mortimer
What I find a little troubling is that this individual was comfortable enough with his actions that he recorded it and then put it online!
Makes you wonder how many times he had done it and was he baiting the driver?
The Political Oracle says
Where is CAIR-Australia and the Pope?
Francis Weber says
Luckily we don’t have CAIR in Australia, the problem started with Al Grasby and the Labor party allowing these hate filled Muslims into Australia!
Aussie Infidel says
I might be wrong, but that sounded like an aboriginal accent to me.
Keith O says
No, wasn’t Aboriginal, words used were what middle eastern people use and the accent was probably Lebanese.
I have Aboriginal blood and work with Aboriginals a lot so you get to know the accents of the various mobs. This isn’t one of them.
gravenimage says
Thank you, Keith.
carpediadem says
He also called the Jewish man a “dog”, common Muslim insult for infidels, especially Jews.
Jeremy says
He sounded Lebanese to me.
tim gallagher says
I don’t believe we have had anti-Jewish problems here in Australia until the Muslims arrived. I suppose there may have been a few Nazi types, tiny numbers I would think, but things have been harmonious. I did know a man from a Hungarian Christian background years ago who seemed pretty obsessed with the Jews, kind of bee in his bonnet, but he was never going to do anything violent. Of course, now there also seems to be some left wingers who are anti-Jewish as well. I have heard that Jewish schools in Sydney’s eastern suburbs now have security guards on their front gates, which I’m pretty sure was something that was never needed before Muslims arrived in Australia. Muslims started being let into Australia back in the mid 1970’s. I couldn’t prove it but I’d say that the need for security guards on the front entries to Jewish schools would be because of the fear of Muslim terrorists. Ah, what wonderful diversity Muslims bring to our non-Muslim countries. How they enrich our once far more harmonious lives in so many different areas of life (not), including their toxic anti-Jewish attitudes.
carpediadem says
Tim, you’re wrong I’m afraid.
“Australia’s refugee quota for German Jews, announced at the Evian Conference in France in July 1938, was 5000 per year over a three-year period, based on family and economic sponsorship. Indeed, Australia’s delegate, Colonel Thomas White, said at Evian: “Australia does not have a racial problem and is not desirous of importing one.””
And much nastier.
https://www.afr.com/politics/australias-racist-past-migration-policy-post-wwii-20171213-h03nnv
There was rabid persecution of the Jews who came to Australia on the Dunera ship.
When Jews came to Australia many could not get jobs at Australian firms. Some set up their own businesses in consequence.
My own father suffered a fair amount of antisemitism at factories and eventually set up his own business.
The antisemitism didn’t stop there but at least he was reasonably independent.
Yes, many are able to have a good life but there is always an undercurrent and often very obvious nastiness. I just experienced some of it earlier today as a matter of fact.
If you’re not Jewish you won’t know how virulent it is.
mgoldberg says
It was certainly there but…. one didn’t need to fear for one’s life, nor the threat of beatings for merely walking into an area, where even the police couldn’t go, as is the theme in so many lands were muslims accrue and then…. the fear for others is quite real. There is a show that was on Australian TV called, ‘A place to call home’ I think, which takes place in the 50’s and follows and aristocratic aussie family there their tv soap dramas. One of the main characters is a women who was european, converted to Judaism for her beloved husband who was tortured in nazi camps and was discovered by her yrs later to have lived in a damaged state and brought by her back to Australia. Anyway, the theme is explored and there is of course the bias against jews but there are those who do not act so who are aussie characters and those who rise above these petty biases and that too was I imagine part of real life in Australia. I do know a well known american rabbi- a rather brilliant yet down to earth jew, who is a wonderful speaker and lecturer who was raised in Australia. He tells the most humorous stories, wry at times. One is of a buddy he played racket ball with in Australia, who was not jewish, during his later teen years I think. Anyway the christian guy asks him one day about his Jewish new years holiday. Says he… ‘I hear you folks have a two day new years day celebration?’ Yes, said the rabbi. ‘What fun- drinking and partying for two days’ said the fellow.
Said the rabbi, ‘Well actually we spend most of both days in the synogogue, praying, for hours but there is a bit of festive eating both days’…. His friend was a bit perplexed and he couldn’t quite get the picture of the New Years celebration that he was used to. Anyway, the point being that I don’t recall this particular rabbi going on about how bigoted Aussies were as that is not the theme of which his life and work too advantage of. He had good stories to tell of Australia and life there and no doubt there were some negative things to say… but not like the bigotry we’re speaking of today with the religion of pieces.
carpediadem says
Nope, wrong again, though security needs intensified due to Islamic/leftist activism, security gates have been at Jewish schools/centres etc for decades before Muslims arrived here.
tim gallagher says
Thanks for the information, carpediadem. My own upbringing out in the inner western suburbs of Sydney, and I am 70 years old, didn’t involve any contact with Jewish people at all, so I certainly am far from a knowledgeable person on the subject of anti-Jewish feeling in Australia. The man I mentioned, from a Hungarian Christian (Catholic like me) background, lived in the eastern suburbs and seemed to be somewhat obsessed with Jewish people, which was something that I couldn’t understand at all. Late in the 1990s, I did work with Muslim man who asked me whether our immediate supervisor at work was Jewish, which struck me as bizarre. The supervisor had an Irish name like mine and I told him exactly that. Again, it seemed a very weird and creepy thing for this Muslim to ask (I couldn’t have cared about what her background was) and I immediately thought that it was probably something to do with the ongoing Israel Palestinian situation. At the time I didn’t know anything about the content of the Koran and how deep seated Muslim hatred for Jewish people is. But I now think Muslims tend to hate everyone except their own Muslim mates. The main thing I have heard in a news report is about Jewish schools having security guards on the front gates of the schools. I thought it was something new. I’m sure letting Muslims into any country is going to exacerbate anti-Jewish sentiment. Thanks for the information about your experience which I found enlightening. If you go further back in Australia’s history, there was discrimination against Catholics by Protestants. I suspect it was the same in most countries to some degree. I personally believe that letting Islam into any country will make things worse in every aspect of life. Anyway, thanks for the information and all the best to you.
gravenimage says
Australia: Uber passenger calls driver ‘Jewish scumbag,’ ends ride early, doesn’t want to ‘ride with a Jew’
………….
Just appalling. Will Uber ban this passenger? I certainly hope so.
infidel says
Just imagine if it were the other way around.. if a Muslim had been abused like that,. It would have been global headlines. and Australia would have been projected as a racist nation with the Aussie White CHRISTIAN MEN being held responsible for this
mgoldberg says
Yes indeed. The imams would come out of the woodwork, demanding a religious tolerance test of all drivers and demanding a correction course for the non muslim drivers. And they would likely get just that reaction out of the jewish clergy and leadership promising to cleanse the ‘hatred’ and ‘bigotry’ out of the drivers. Here…. there will be next to nothing. No admission that this is a common muslim expression of hatred and especially against jews. And Islam likely will not be held accountable nor will there be any mea culpas. Oh, they might instead want an interfaith ‘dialogue’ to show their ‘concern’ for ‘all religions’ but that is just a smokescreen.
gravenimage says
Very true.
Koosemo says
“Jew hate” (the term anti semitism is too 19th century) in Australia has been alive and well for generations, whether under the surface or blatantly expressed (anyone can google the history of Josh Freidenberg in the Australian liberal party). The Muslim migration is what has made it raw and life threatening for Jews. Aggression and intimidation by Muslim dogs (and bitches) is much more frequent than reported.