Jewish residents reported being physically attacked or verbally abused in Zurich over the weekend. "Five different incidents were reported to us," said Jonathan Kreutner, Secretary General of the Swiss Federation of Jewish Communities (SIG), on Tuesday. He confirmed reports in the online new website 20Minuten. +Get the most important news from Switzerland in your inbox The attacks all took place in the suburb of Zurich-Wiedikon at the weekend. As far as is known, most of the attacks were reported to the police. "Such a spate of physical attacks on Jewish people, where we have to assume, at least in part, that they only took place because the people were Jewish, is worrying and unusual," said Kreutner in the 20 Minuten report. Word of the incidents had spread in the Jewish community and caused concern. The number of antisemitic incidents in German-speaking and Italian-speaking Switzerland rose in 2023. A total of 1,130 antisemitic incidents were reported or observed, compared to 910 ...
