Young Jewish man stabbed in NYC by attacker yelling ‘Free Palestine’

A young Jewish man was stabbed early Saturday morning near the Chabad movement’s headquarters in New York City by a man yelling “Free Palestine,” according to a local rabbi who says he knows the victim, as well as CCTV footage of the incident published online.

???????????? BREAKING: Man shouting "FREE PALESTINE" stabs Jew in New York near Chabad Headquarters.

"Do you want to die?"

That's what the perpetrator — reportedly a black male in his early 20s — asked the victim, before he started stabbing him.

This happened on Shabbat. Local… pic.twitter.com/ucTVMpmz5E

— dahlia kurtz ✡︎ דליה קורץ (@DahliaKurtz) August 11, 2024

Yaacov Behrman tweets that during Shabbat, the young male attacker asked the man: “Do you want to die?”

He then stabbed him, with the victim quickly taken to the hospital and expected to make full recovery, Behrman says.

He says other community members chased the attacker and pinned him down until police arrived and arrested him.

“This is an extremely serious incident,” Behrman adds. “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.”

I can confirm that a hate crime stabbing occurred early this morning in Crown Heights, around 2 a.m., near Eastern Parkway and Kingston Avenue, close to Chabad Headquarters.

The perpetrator, a Black male in his early 20s, shouted "Free Palestine" and, after an exchange of words…

— Yaacov Behrman (@ChabadLubavitch) August 11, 2024