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JULY 19, 2018 / 12:02 PM / 2 MONTHS AGO
BERLIN (Reuters) - Hundreds of Germans wearing skullcaps rallied in the western city of Bonn on Thursday in support of a Jewish professor who was first the victim of an anti-Semitic attack and then was hit again by police who mistook him for the assailant.
Yitzhak Melamed, a philosophy professor at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, was visiting to give a guest lecture at Bonn University when he was attacked by a 20-year-old Palestinian-German man who shouted: “No Jews in Germany”.
The protest rally was backed by Bonn’s local government and other civic groups. They called for people to wear the kippah, or Jewish skullcap, in solidarity with Melamed who had been wearing the symbol of Jewish identity when attacked.
Far from coming to the 50-year-old’s aid when they arrived, police wrestled him to the ground and punched him repeatedly.
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-g...KBN1K92N9?il=0