Anti-Semitic Incidents in Boro Park and Flatbush

Updated: 4 suspects were arrested.

 Hamodia - The NYPD is investigating two possible hate incidents late on Shabbos in Boro Park and Flatbush, part of an ongoing spate of attacks in the city.

At around 6-7 p.m., two Jewish teenagers were assaulted on Ocean Parkway and 18th Avenue. The victims claimed that a group of men exited a Toyota Camry and assaulted them. The boys say they were forced to say “Free Palestine,” and were then repeatedly punched. They claimed that another few men surrounded them with baseball bats.

The boys said that a Muslim Uber driver saved their lives when he passed by and saw what was happening. He drove them to where they were staying for Shabbos, in the area of Avenue R and East 12th Street. The two teens are recovering at home.

Later, at about 7:20 p.m., another anti-Semitic incident was reported, when a group of men exited a vehicle on 16th Avenue and 49th Street in Boro Park, and began yelling anti-Semitic

slurs at Jews on the street. This was near the Agudah shul. One man reportedly spit at Jewish pedestrians while yelling “Free Palestine – Kill the Jews.” Another man punched a car mirror, breaking it.(one victim ran into the agudah shul and locked the door  the assailant  chased him by bh could not get in) read more at Hamodia.