‘Hitler should have gassed your family’: Rabbi is sent a string of vile anti-Semitic messages after trying to sell a hand-carved walking stick
- Jewish rabbi bombarded with sickening anti-semitic texts after selling cane
- He put the hand-carved item on sale for $20 on a Facebook marketplace group
- The rabbi asked for another $30 to cover the shipping cost of the sold item
- Unhappy with the price, the buyer sent a string of abusive texts to the rabbi
A rabbi has been told Hitler should have gassed his family after he asked a buyer for $50 to ship a hand-carved snake head walking stick.
The Jewish religious leader, who wishes to remain anonymous, had put the item on sale for $20 in a Facebook marketplace group.
He then asked the buyer for an extra $30 to cover the postage costs of the walking stick before he was bombarded with anti-Semitic texts.
‘Your [sic] a Jewish piece of s***, should have been gassed,’ the buyer said.
‘Your people got killed off because they are pieces of garbage.’
A Jewish rabbi has been told Hitler should have gassed his family after he asked a buyer for $50 to ship a hand-carved snake head walking stick (stock image)
The rabbi then asked the buyer for an extra $30 to cover the postage costs of the walking stick before he was bombarded with anti-semitic texts (pictured)
The buyer continued on her hateful tirade and called him an ‘inbred Jew’ who raped ‘little boys’.
‘Your a piece of s*** rabbi go back there your own country you piece of s***.
‘Hitler should have gassed you Jewish scum.’
The rabbi said he was overwhelmed with a range of emotions from the string of insults and abuse.
‘When I woke up in the morning and saw the stream of abusive and abhorrent messages, I went through a series of emotions: shock, panic, and then pity,’ he said.
‘I also felt violated at how sudden and quick the situation changed, since it was over $30, and it revealed a deep hatred. I found that beyond disturbing.
‘I was shocked at how comfortable she felt to be openly and continuously abusive and antisemitic. I panicked at her motivation to contact me privately with more virulent attacks on my family and me. And finally, pity that she is filled with such bitterness.’
Anti-Defamation Commission Dr Dvir Abramovich slammed the outburst of abusive text messages.
‘Every individual, regardless of their faith and ethnicity, deserves to feel safe, and I am deeply concerned that violent words, as revealed in these posts, may turn deadly as we have seen in massacres around the world.’
The rabbi said he was overwhelmed with a range of emotions from the string of insults and abuse.