Defeated Jewish wine bar owner reveals the shocking six words an extremist said to him forcing him to consider closing up shop for good

A small business owner of Jewish descent was forced to consider closing his wine bar after a member of the far left walked in and said, “We don’t need your kind here.”

Tim Cohen said in a video on social media on Friday that he suffered abuse while working at his wine shop in Brunswick East, in Melbourne’s north.

Mr Cohen, who runs Brunswick East Wine, appeared defeated as he told customers his abusers had “won” and that he felt “really broken inside”.

He explained that a woman, whom he believed to be an extremist from the far left of society, had walked into his store on Thursday and said she was glad it was empty.

“She just said, ‘It’s so good that you’re quiet.’ We want you to get out of this suburb. We don’t need your kind here,’ and she turned and waddled out,’ Mr. Cohen said.

“I feel like after ten years I’m really broken as a person and as a business owner in this suburb.”

Mr Cohen has been the target of attacks from the far left since October 7 last year, when Hamas invaded Israel and massacred hundreds of partygoers at a festival.

He has since had two inverted red triangles painted on the outside wall of his bar.

The symbol is used by Hamas militants to identify targets to kill, and the first time Mr. Cohen found one in his store it was accompanied by a threatening message warning people not to buy there.

Another appeared on September 8 without accompanying text.

Mr Cohen said he was fed up with the abuse and vilification of Jewish people in inner-city Melbourne.

“I get a lot of hate from the far left, but that hate doesn’t come from the far right,” he said.

‘Extreme left in the inner north, because of my Jewish origins and I can no longer deal with that.’

Mr. Cohen said the woman who assaulted him had a “smug” look on her face, adding that the interaction left him crying on a crate behind the counter for an hour.

“I just sat on a crate in the corner and thought, ‘Wow, this is hateful, this is the fabric of a brown shirt.’ This is Hitler youth material,” he said.

Mr Cohen said it was not the first time he had been attacked by the “far left” and that he had also found Hamas symbols defaced with graffiti outside his wine bar.

He specifically mentioned the “hatred” that he said has been fermented by Greens members since Hamas’s invasion of Israel.

‘The Greens’ sycophants like Adam Bandt and Tim Read, who have done nothing but don a [Palestinian] keffiyeh scarf and spreading hatred,” he said.

“Tim Read, Adam Bandt and Samantha Ratnam, these are your sycophants, these are your followers.

“I’m just broken inside.”

Now Mr. Cohen says his company is silent and “dying out” thanks to “the far left” and “hateful, hateful Jew-hating people.”

‘You won. I’m done. It won’t be long before you see the back of me. Be well,” Mr. Cohen said in closing the video.

On two separate occasions, Mr Cohen said he had painted inverted red triangles on his walls – a symbol used by Hamas to mark places where political enemies live.

Anti-Defamation Commission chairman Dr Dvir Abramovich said Mr Cohen’s story tells the entire Jewish community that it is not safe in Australia.

‘When someone like Tim Cohen, a man who simply wanted to build a life, a business or a dream, is confronted with hate, it says to the Jewish community: ‘You are not safe here,’ Dr Abramovich told the Daily Mail. Australia.

“This isn’t just painful; it’s terrifying.

‘If someone is told: ‘You are not wanted here’ because of their religion or origin, it is more than an insult.

“It is a denial of their humanity, a form of psychological violence that leaves scars far beyond what the world can see.”

Daily Mail Australia has contacted Mr Cohen, Mr Bandt, Mr Read and Ms Ratnam for comment.