A small business owner with Jewish heritage has been forced to consider closing up his wine bar after a member from the extremist ‘far left’ walked in and said ‘we don’t need your kind here’.
Tim Cohen said he has faced streams of abuse while working in his Brunswick East wine shop, in Melbourne‘s inner north, in a video to social media on Friday.
Mr Cohen, who runs Brunswick East Wine, appeared defeated as he told his customers that his abusers ‘had won’ and that he felt ‘truly broken inside’.
He explained a woman, who he believed to be an extremist from the far left section of society, had walked into his store on Thursday and said she was glad to see it empty.
‘She just said ”It’s so good that you’re quiet. We want you gone from this suburb. We don’t need your kind here” and she turned around …