Jewish Tourist Couple Attacked by 10 Migrants in Venice
13th September 2025
A Jewish tourist couple have been assaulted by a group of 10 migrants in the latest in a series of anti-Semitic attacks in Europe.
The American and Israeli pair were surrounded by the North African men shortly before midnight on Strada Nuova, one of the main shopping thoroughfares near the Rialto Bridge in the northern Italian city.
The couple, wearing Orthodox clothing, tried to flee but were chased and surrounded by the group, who chanted “Free Palestine”
One then set his unmuzzled rottweiler on the tourists, while another slapped the man and a glass bottle was thrown, shattering and injuring the woman’s ankle.
Officers from the Guardia di Finanza, Italy’s financial crimes unit, saw the attack and intervened.