Palestinian taxi drivers live in terror while facing attacks from racist ultra-Orthodox Jews in Arab Jerusalem

JERUSALEM: Taxi driver Ezzedine Nassar will never forget the night last October he was hailed by three young ultra-Orthodox Jews in Jerusalem. They knew he was a Palestinian as soon as he opened his mouth.

They smashed his face in with a rock.

"They were waiting for an Arab to come along," said the 48-year-old who now picks up fares during the day only and also tries to avoid areas of the Holy City inhabited by ultra-religious Jews.

Local media recently broadcast surveillance footage of dozens of teenage Jews ganging up on two Palestinians in the illegal Jewish settlement of Pisgat Zeev in the east of the city.

Arab east Jerusalem was …