Orthodox Jew Stabbed In NYC By Attacker Reportedly Yelling ‘Free Palestine’

Over the weekend, a young Orthodox Jewish man in New York was stabbed in the chest in the heavily Orthodox Jewish neighborhood of Crown Heights in Brooklyn by a man who reportedly yelled “Free Palestine” and “Do you want to die?”

Vincent Sumpter, 22, was charged with second-degree assault as a hate crime for stabbing Yechiel Michel Dabrowskin. The attack occurred around the corner from the headquarters of the Chabad-Lubavitch movement.

“The perpetrator, a Black male in his early 20s, shouted ‘Free Palestine’ and, after an exchange of words with the victim, allegedly asked, ‘Do you want to die?’ before stabbing him,” Yaacov Behrman, a spokesman for the Chabad-Lubavitch movement posted on X.

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

“When you look at the footage you can see that me and a friend of mine were trying to distance him from us,” Dabrowskin stated. “All of a sudden he pulled out a knife. The knife went very close to my heart. We all tackled him and we all called the police.”

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A friend of the victim told CBS News, “The guy started to say, ‘Free Palestine,’ and stuff like that… Two of my friends came a little bit closer and told him to go away. And after a couple of minutes, the guy said, like, ‘You wanna die, what’s going on?’… We said nobody wants to die, go away, we’re going to call the police… It was like a second – took a knife, opened it like that, and stabbed him by the stomach.”

Mark Treyger, chief executive of the Jewish Community Relations Council of New York, wrote, “This abhorrent and abominable attack on a young Jewish person in Brooklyn because of his identity should not and cannot be seen in isolation,” then posted a list of the numerous anti-Semitic acts that have taken place recently in New York, noting the chants of “Zionists are not welcome here” at college campuses, the “Hunting for Jews” on the city’s subways, and “throwing smoke bombs at a Nova exhibit in Lower Manhattan where young people were trying to turn their pain into purpose after witnessing their peers slaughtered and abducted” by Hamas on October 7.

I pray for this young man’s full and speedy recovery and I thank NYPD, Hatzalah, and the volunteers who rushed to his rescue.

This is a dangerous escalation of the current climate we are in and it should outrage every New Yorker because it is an attack on every New Yorker.… https://t.co/yTB2ZiZXhe

— Mark Treyger ???? (@MarkTreyger718) August 11, 2024