Just occasionally, the good guys win. On the 14th of November last year  in Buenos Aires, a  bus driver shouted racial insults at the son of a rabbi who wanted to board his vehicle then physically attacked him, smashing his glasses, before kicking him back on to the street. The youth found a policeman and told him what had happened and the policeman managed to stop the bus and arrest the driver.

The bus driver, whose name is Raúl Arenas Vega, had a nine month jail sentence confirmed today. The DAIA Jewish community organisation described the sentence as exemplary, which indeed it is. The victim of the attack deserves congratulations for having had the courage to approach a policeman in the first place and the policeman himself deserves a lot of credit for doing the right thing. He could easily have told the youth to take a hike and there is no chance that any negative consequence would have befallen him for doing so.