A23, if idiots are trying to make a fool out of someone then they are the fools who just threw away their money. Just keep walking and ignore them.
We were in Paris a year and a half ago. Personally I didn’t want to go but my husband insisted. We went with another couple. One of our granddaughters were just born and I just wanted to stay and bond, it was the middle of the summer and the worst time to go. But we went with our friends. I never had the desire to go to Paris because of the anti-semitism, I didn’t feel the need to give them my money. At any right, we were walking on one of the main streets when this imbecile does the Hile Hitler as he walks past us. I immediate turn and stare at him. My immediate instincts is to follow him as he is looking back at me and keeps walking. My husband and friends grab me as I start walking after him and he keeps walking away. I wanted to show him that I wasn’t afraid of him but disgusted by him and they were pulling me back. He kept walking. He thought he was funny but he wasn’t as funny as he thought because he didn’t want a confrontation and he wasn’t standing around waiting for one. People started staring at him as well but he didn’t stop because he was a coward!!!!
My friend thought I lost it. I am second generation survivor and my mother a”h and her sisters were prisoners at Auschwitz so I guess I had a knee jerk reaction. But you can’t let these people get to you or cower from them. Their hatred will come back to haunt them. YOU must hold your head high when you pass these cowards.
In the news section, the report on the kids that beat up the Rebbe in Williamsburg said they picked on him because Jews don’t fight back!