American tourist subjected to vile anti-Semitic abuse, called ‘child killer’ in broad daylight at Kings Park

An American tourist has been subjected to vile anti-Semitic abuse and called a “child killer” in broad daylight at Kings Park. Footage posted on social media shows a man confronting the tourist, who is wearing a Star of David necklace, saying: “Do you support your genocide? What’s wrong? “Youse are gronks, that’s what youse are, youse are genocide . . . the children killer.” The woman, visiting Perth from New York, says she was “attacked” by the man, who was wearing traditional Muslim dress, and his companion, a woman in a niqab. “These people just attacked me in Perth because they saw my Magen David (Star of David necklace),” the woman said. The video footage, posted by the Australian Jewish Association to X on Thursday, shows the woman chanting a Jewish solidarity anthem after the incident. The alleged abuser was then seen heckling another man who attempted to defend the woman. When she shouted “get away from him”, he told her to “shut up”. A female bystander could be heard attempting to diffuse the situation, shouting: “There are families around who don’t need to hear this.” The alleged abuser and the woman wearing the niqab, who filmed the incident on Thursday, are believed to be tourists from Sydney. The Jewish woman later took to social media to slam Prime Minister Anthony Albanese for his government’s failure to stop the rising tide of anti-Semitism in Australia. It has triggered increasing anxiety in Perth’s Jewish community, following an arson attack on a Melbourne synagogue and an incident in Sydney where cars and fences were graffitied with anti-Israel slogans. The female victim identified herself as an “Australian tourist from New York” who was “attacked because I was visibly Jewish”. Kings Park is also home to the Jewish War Memorial, erected in 1920. “It is disgusting that Jewish tourists get accosted and almost assaulted simply for being tourists in a country that has no interest in protecting its Jewish citizens or Jewish tourists,” she said on Instagram. “Albanese, you are the Prime Minister of Australia, a beautiful country that you are making ugly. You are not helping the situation — extra patrol cars to protect Jews is not the answer. “You stop the virulent anti-Semites, you don’t pretend to give us extra security. My answer to all the anti-Semites and Islamic terrorist sympathisers in Australia is I don’t change who I am — I wear it louder and prouder. “I hope the Australian people are aghast at what is happening to the Jews in Australia . . . it has to be nipped in the bud, anti-Semtiism cannot become the norm in Australia or anyone else in the world. How sad that anti-Semitism follows us literally across the world.” The Australian Jewish Association called the video: “Jewish couple in Perth have abuse shouted at them by Muslim man”. Association chief executive Robert Gregory described the Perth attack as “brazen”. “It sends a very worrying message,” he told The West Australian. “Jewish people are scared of what’s happening, they’re scared that the conflicts from overseas are now being brought to the streets of Australia. “We know across Australia, synagogues have been targeted, Jewish schools have been targeted, and now Jewish people are being targeted in the streets. “It’s very brazen to target people in the middle of a park in the middle of the day; it shows that the people doing these types of things are getting more aggressive and they’re getting more brazen and they don’t fear the consequences.”