I read the story too it was appalling, particularly as it was an unprovoked attack, the yobbo kicked the man's pushchair with his young toddler in it and called the father something like a "dirty Jew", I suppose the fact that he was Jewish was apparent because he was wearing a skull cap. It was reported that the assailant was Egyptian, so maybe a conclusion to be reached there. As well as being disgusted by his behaviour I couldn't help thinking that he, the aggressor, looked a complete dickhead slightly idiotic in the way he was dressed compounded by the fact that he had some stupid designer man bag thingy he was wearing across his body, beside the point I know, but nevertheless it gave me some satisfaction that whilst behaving like an idiot, he also looked like one too!
I perceive anti semitism exists for a number of reasons.
In the historical context Christians laid the blame of "you killed Jesus" on Jewish shoulders. Utter nonsense of course, the Romans were also complicit but that seemed to be airbrushed out of any narrative. Moving on through history, the Jews were money lenders because they weren't allowed to do anything else. Then I guess the money lending morphed into banking and possibly from that there is the perception that all Jewish people are therefore rich, another misnomer. Along with the hateful supposition that they control the world's finances. The far right in Germany went with that concept and blamed them for the ills that befell Germany in the aftermath of the 1st World War when they were struggling with raging inflation during the time of the Weimar Republic. Of course history tells us that it was the Versailles Treaty that did for them, a punitive measure to put at end to German aggression. That of course led to the the rise of the far right and Germany's desire once again to subjugate Europe whilst simultaneously doing their best to wipe out a whole race, borne out of sheer hatred.
Sadly now we have anti semitism from various sources, the far right, the far left and disaffected Muslims, who have the sympathy it seems of the far left. A very unfortunate perfect storm. It would be a tragedy for Europe if the Jewish community upped sticks and left for Israel, as I gather many are doing, through the fear of history repeating itself.