An elderly Jewish couple attacked while on the way to a synagogue in Beverly Hills spoke out about the terrifying assault, warning they’ve never seen this level of antisemitism before in their lives.
Rebecca and Raphael Nissel joined “FOX & Friends First,” Tuesday, to discuss the bloody attack and their take on surging antisemitism amid the war in Gaza.
“No, never,” Rebecca told co-host Todd Piro, when asked if she had ever seen anti-Jewish hate as bad as it is now. “It started a couple of years ago, maybe during COVID, and it slowly deteriorated… I started to stash away my jewelry into safes, and it was very awful to understand at this point that it went up since the Israel-Hamas war 300%.”
Piro asked Raphael if he would stop wearing his yarmulke following the assault.
“No, absolutely no,” Raphael responded. “I think once you cave in to… evil, it’s not going to stop.”
Rebecca said the attack left her “shocked” that the antisemitic assault could happen in her own backyard.
“I think that was really the biggest shock that… all these years we’ve lived so beautifully here in Beverly Hills since 1974, and all of a sudden it changed, and it has to do with race,” she said.
FOX News’ Maddie Coggins contributed to this report.
Bailee Hill is an associate editor with Fox News Digital. Story ideas can be sent to bailee.hill@fox.com
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