Rabbi attacked on NYC street on International Holocaust Remembrance Day

A rabbi was attacked successful New York City connected Tuesday, coinciding with International Holocaust Remembrance Day, successful what section officials described arsenic a "targeted enactment of hate."

The battle happened conscionable earlier 3 p.m. astatine an intersection successful the Forest Hills vicinity of Queens, the New York City Police Department said.

Responding officers recovered a 32-year-old antheral unfortunate who had been approached by an chartless idiosyncratic who made antisemitic comments. After a verbal dispute, the idiosyncratic past punched the unfortunate successful the thorax and face, according to police. The victim, who assemblage leaders identified arsenic a rabbi, was treated for insignificant injuries, portion officers took the fishy into custody.

Police identified the fishy arsenic Eric Zafra-Grosso, 32, of Queens. He faces charges of hatred transgression assault, hatred transgression aggravated harassment and battle causing injury.

ANTI-ISRAEL AGITATOR ACCUSED OF VIOLENTLY ATTACKING JEWISH PROTESTERS LEARNS HIS FATE

An NYPD cruiser sits astatine the intersection of a Midtown thoroughfare closed owed to construction, Nov. 7, 2024, successful New York. (AP Photo/Heather Khalifa, File)

U.S. Rep. Grace Meng, New York State Sens. Joseph Addabbo Jr. and Leroy Comrie Jr., New York State Assembly members Andrew Hevesi and Sam Berger, and New York City Council Member Lynn Schulman issued a associated connection condemning the attack

"We are outraged by the antisemitic onslaught that occurred successful our district, successful which a Rabbi was verbally harassed, physically assaulted, and threatened for being Jewish," the connection said. "This was a targeted enactment of hate, and it has nary spot successful our assemblage oregon anyplace successful New York City."

NETANYAHU SOUNDS ALARM ON ANTISEMITISM AT HOLOCAUST REMEMBRANCE DAY GATHERING

"No 1 should ever fearfulness for their information due to the fact that of their religion, identity, oregon beliefs," the lawmakers said successful the statement. "The emergence successful antisemitic incidents crossed our metropolis and state is profoundly concerning, and this onslaught — occurring connected Holocaust Remembrance Day — underscores the urgent work we each stock to face hatred earlier it escalates into violence."

Local officials noted a emergence successful antisemitic incidents successful the city. (iStock)

According to nationalist information from the NYPD, determination person been 22 reported hatred crimes successful New York City from the commencement of the twelvemonth done Jan. 25.

Antisemitic incidents comprised 62% of each hatred crimes successful the metropolis during the archetypal 4th of 2025, according to a study released past period by erstwhile New York City Mayor Eric Adams.

"I was disgusted to larn of yet different antisemitic onslaught successful New York City, this clip connected a rabbi successful Queens during International Holocaust Remembrance Day," Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., posted connected X Wednesday morning. "As we commemorate the 6 cardinal Jews who were murdered by the Nazis during the Holocaust, we indispensable admit that antisemitism is inactive live and connected the emergence today. It is imperative we bash everything successful our powerfulness to combat these rancid acts of antisemitism and hatred successful each its forms."

Schumer added that helium is "grateful" the rabbi is okay, and thanked the NYPD.

CLICK HERE TO DOWNLOAD THE FOX NEWS APP

New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani posted that helium is "horrified" by the attack.

"On International Holocaust Remembrance Day, New Yorkers were confronted with a achy truth: antisemitism is not a happening of the past—it is simply a contiguous information that demands enactment from each of us," Mamdani said. "There is nary spot for antisemitism successful our city. I basal successful solidarity with Jewish New Yorkers and my medication is committed to rooting retired this hatred."