(JNS) – The New York City Police Department is probing an assault that took place at 12:48 p.m. on Monday in front of the kosher eatery Mr. Broadway in midtown Manhattan as a potential hate crime, the department told JNS.
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Responding to a 911 call, NYPD officers saw a man with “injuries to the right side of his face.” The victim was subsequently taken to Mount Sinai Beth Israel in stable condition, the department said. “There is no arrest, and the investigation remains ongoing by the NYPD Hate Crimes Task Force.”
Rivi Ben Noon Glickstein told JNS that the attacker noticed her husband, Rami Glickstein’s kippah and shouted at him, “What is your religion? What is your religion?” When he ignored the assailant and kept walking, the man threw his kippah to the ground and spat on it, she told JNS.
After her husband, 58, picked his kippah up from the ground, the other man began punching him “a lot, very, very strongly” Rivi Glickstein said. “My husband couldn’t fight against him.”
Bystanders came over to help, and the police were called. Her husband was hospitalized, and doctors found “blood in the brain” and a broken nose, she told JNS.
Rivi Glickstein said her husband was released and though he “wasn’t feeling so well” on Tuesday, they decided to go to a restaurant in New York City, which the Israeli couple has been visiting as part of a nine-day trip. The couple plans to return to Israel in two days.
Having been to New York City several times, it felt “so strange” that such an antisemitic act could occur in the city and in the country, Rivi Glickstein told JNS. “For me, it’s like 1939.”
Ofir Akunis, consul general of Israel in New York, said that he spoke with the couple on Monday, wishing the victim a speedy recovery and telling the two that the “Israeli consulate in New York stands fully at their disposal.”
“This attack is a direct result of the daily incitement taking place around the world, including in the United States, against Jews and against Israel,” Akunis stated. “Lies, verbal violence, calls for another Oct. 7 massacre, and the unrestricted spread of blood libels, such as the false Gaza narrative, influence many people, some of whom do not hesitate to commit physical attacks.”
“All public leaders in the United States, at both the national and local levels, must immediately and firmly condemn this assault and the calls for violence such as the so-called ‘global intifada,’” Akunis said.
schvartze chayas
“Having been to New York City several times, it felt “so strange” that such an antisemitic act could occur in the city and in the country, Rivi Glickstein told JNS. “For me, it’s like 1939.”” Their political situation is far worse but, no, this is obviously not like 1939. What an offensive thing to say. 1939 featured laws against Jews; this was some subhuman street thugs, not laws against Jews.
““This attack is a direct result of the daily incitement taking place around the world, including in the United States, against Jews and against Israel,” Akunis stated.” If his employer (Israel) were to clarify that Jews are not responsible for anything Israel does, in part because Israel is a secular country, then that would go a long way in helping Jews being unfairly blamed for what they dislike about his employer.
You mean the same NYPD that that drags their feet and won’t approve you for your concealed carry permit that will help avoid these situations all together, will be investigating this incident? Aww, they’re looking into hate prime charges. Isn’t that so compassionate of them? A bunch of fraudsters and criminals.
thankfully chief Ritchie taylor will look into this. not sure how we lived without him
Lesson – don’t talk back to haters! Keep far away from those black fuzzballs!
I am surprised that a Israeli who was in the IDF couldn’t defend himself better.
But this schvartz attacker is a real thug and deserves years behind bars.
“It’s like 1939”
No it’s not!
With the Nazis in control of Germany they had unlimited power.
Does she think the government & NYPD are encouraging these attacks? Have 30,000 Jewish men been arrested in America for being Jewish?
There’s a lot of crazy stuff going in the world but claiming a hateful jerk is the same as 1939 makes us look overly sensitive & too emotional.