Antisemitic stabbing in NYC
A Jewish man in his 30s received minor injuries in a stabbing near the Chabad Lubavitch World Headquarters in New York late on Saturday.
The incident took place after a 22-year-old man approached the victim and other Hasidic Jews sitting near the building, shouting "Free Palestine" at them. He then allegedly asked the victim if he "wanted to die?" before attacking him.
Bystanders who witnessed the incident chased the assailant and detained him until the police arrived. The victim, a Hasidic man from Brooklyn, was taken to the hospital with minor injuries and is expected to be released on Sunday.
Yaacov Behrman, a spokesperson for Chabad headquarters in Brooklyn, said, "This is an extremely serious incident. The victim could have been killed. This act of hateful violence highlights the dangerous impact of anti-Semitic incitement and hate propagated by some local politicians and leaders in New York and across the United States.
He added, " Take this incident as a warning of the potential consequences if such hateful rhetoric continues. When hate and incitement against a group are preached, it invariably leads to violence.”