A Jewish family, some of them from Israel, said an Uber driver in Vienna assaulted a member of their group and called them “murderers” and “child killers” before forcing them out the vehicle last week.

A Monday post on Facebook by the antisemitism reporting center of the Jewish Religious Community (IKG), the body that formally represents Austria’s Jews, described the incident, the latest in a number of attacks on Israelis in Europe over the summer vacation.

The organization said the family, a Jewish couple with two children aged 10 and 13, and a 75-year-old woman, ordered an Uber to take them to a restaurant to celebrate a birthday.

When the driver realized that some of the passengers were Israeli, he called them “murderers” and said that he did not want to have “child killers” in his vehicle, according to the post.

The organization said the driver pulled over and forced the family out, and continued insulting them as well as physically assaulting the........

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