A man screaming anti-Semitic epithets punched and slashed a 50-year-old Chasidic Jew on Saturday with a box cutter, according to the New York Daily News. “You [expletive] Jew. I am a Palestinian. Why don’t you get the [expletive] out of here?” the attacker shouted, according to the victim, Boris Elkon, who was treated at a local hospital.
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