The assault, recorded by a bystander, unfolded Thursday near the global headquarters of the Chabad-Lubavitch movement in Crown Heights, where an appearance by Itamar Ben-Gvir set off clashes between pro-Palestinian activists and members of the neighborhood’s large Orthodox Jewish community.
The woman, a neighborhood resident in her 30s, told The Associated Press she learned of the protest after hearing police helicopters over her apartment. She walked over to investigate around 10:30 p.m. but by then the protest had mostly disbursed. Not wanting to be filmed, she covered her face with a scarf.
“As soon as I pulled up my scarf, a group of 100 men came over immediately and encircled me,” said the woman, who spoke to the AP on the condition of anonymity because she feared for her safety.
The woman, a lifelong New Yorker, said she was left with bruises and mentally shaken by the episode, which she said police should investigate as an act of hate.
group of 100 men came over immediately and encircled me
Wow check out these alpha chads over here. How brave and heroic of them to mob assault an individual woman for having a scarf on her face. What fine people to share a society with.
Something about Chabad-Lubavitch and Brooklyn rang some bells for me, which isn’t normally the kind of thing that would catch my attention, so I figured I must have seen something particularly weird about them in the news in the not-too-distant past.
And only one weird story from New York about Orthodox Jews comes to mind for me personally, and sure enough it was Chabad-Lubavitch that was involved in the Synagogue tunnel incident
Not that I think there’s any direct correlation between these two incidents, I’m mostly just bringing it up for anyone else who had the same “why does that name ring a bell” feeling.
Great, now we have street level thugs associated with Trump’s nazi regime to deal with
Nah these are Zionist thugs, which somehow mated with Nazis.
Who are also, humorously, Jews who like genocide. What a crazy world.
Netanyahu would like a word…
