A young man wearing a kippah was attacked this week in Berlin, according to a report in Germany’s The Local.

The attack occurred in the Alt-Treptow neighborhood. The victim, 21-year-old Oliver Geffers, told police that three men of Arabic appearance began to verbally harass him with anti-Semitic epithets when they saw his kippah.

They then proceeded to punch and kick him, before fleeing the scene.

The young man was lightly injured and did not require emergency medical treatment.

The Department for Research and Information on Anti-Semitism, based in Berlin, reported a 34 percent rise in anti-Semitic incidents in the German capital from 2014 to 2015.

Last year, the president of the Central Council of Jews in Germany Josef Schuster — warned again st the fact that many migrants of Arab descent in Germany have grown up in an environment in which hostility toward Israel and antisemitism are common practice.

‘’Jews in Germany are afraid that, if unchecked, this anti-Semitism rooted in Arab culture and politics could grow rapidly,” he said.