A Sephardic Jewish peddler was beaten up in Amman by twenty Arabs who stole his goods, according to a report which appears in the “Doar Hayom” today.
According to the report, the peddler was accosted by a police officer in the following terms. “Why do you come here? Don’t you know Jews are prohibited to come to Transjordania?”
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