Esther Mucznik, an acclaimed writer and one of the main figures in the Jewish community in Portugal (having served as Vice-President of the Lisbon Jewish Community), lodged a complaint with the National Elections Commission regarding antisemitic offenses.
The President of the Portuguese Republic Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa and the Mayor of Lisbon Carlos Moedas expressed their solidarity with her.
While exercising her right to vote in Miraflores (a municipality of Oeiras), Esther Mucznik heard a member of the panel for section 17, to whom she presented her citizenship card, say: “I don’t like it!” When Esther questioned him, he responded, “I don’t like the name and the fact that they go around there carrying out massacres.” Esther Mucznik stated, “He realised I was Jewish.”
She previously reported in an opinion article in ‘Público’ that this incident was “a manifestation of hatred, blaming me for what is happening in Gaza.”
