(JTA) — Three assailants beat an identifiably Jewish man while shouting anti-Semitic epithets at a Brooklyn train station.
A bystander who intervened in the attack on Monday in the Williamsburg neighborhood also was attacked, the New York Daily News reported, citing the website JPUpdates.com.
The Jewish man, who was identified as a tourist from Israel, was beaten with his own umbrella after he discovered them trying to take something out of his pocket. They called him a ‘dirty bloody Jew’ and a ‘f—ing Jew’ during the attack, according to the newspaper.
The attackers fled on a Manhattan-bound train.
The New York Police Department’s hate crimes unit is investigating the incident, The Associated Press reported.
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