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| ‘Jews are eating kids!’: NYC subway passenger assaults, beats up 23-year-old Jewish woman as antisemitic incidents spiked in May |
| 2026-06-05 |
The New York Post has more about the attack and the attacker: A raging woman spewing antisemitic hate ripped out a hunk of a Jewish rider’s hair on a Big Apple subway Sunday and screeched, “Jews are eating kids,” according to cops and shocking video.The suspect, identified by police as Bronx resident Diana Smith, shouted an assortment of vicious remarks against Jews on the crowded C train around 2:15 p.m. in Lower Manhattan before she assaulted a 23-year-old Upper West Side woman, police said. “I was a ragdoll and I couldn’t defend myself — there should have been a human barricade around me,” the young Orthodox Jewish victim, who asked that her name be withheld, told The Post. “No one stepped up until it was too late.” The victim, a nurse and Montreal native, recalled to The Post that she entered the transit system at Jay Street and was riding for one stop when the suspect also hopped on and started speaking to a couple “about the dangers of Jews stealing wealth.” She then turned to another couple and wildly said, “You could always see the reflection of a Jew,” according to the Jewish woman. “And then she turned towards me, like very targeted, stared me down, and smiled with this very eerie smile that I’ll never forget,” the nurse said. “I decided in that moment I really did not want to show fear in the face of that, so I stared at her right back down, and I said, ‘So you see my reflection?’ and she said, ‘Yeah, and I smell it on you too.’” Part of the encounter was captured on the victim’s phone, which shows Smith’s ugly rhetoric. “Jews are eating kids,” she shouted. The tense moment quickly escalated to violence when Smith allegedly placed a hand on the victim’s throat. A couple of bystanders attempted to defuse the situation, with Smith yelling, “It’s OK for Jews to eat kids, but I can’t choke her down.” Seconds later, the victim’s phone was knocked to the floor and Smith allegedly had her hands wrapped around her throat, kicking and shoving her to the floor, the 23-year-old said. Her hair was pulled so forcefully that a clump of it was ripped out. Once the subway reached the Canal Street stop, the Jewish woman rushed out of the car to get cops’ attention while another straphanger pushed the emergency button, leading to the arrest of Smith. “When I had to identify her, a ton of people were like, ‘Oh, we saw what happened, are you OK?’ And that was extremely triggering for me, because of course I’m not OK. I kept just thinking, ‘I’m not in Nazi Germany,’” said the woman, who is only 5 feet 3. Part of the encounter was captured on the victim’s phone. Obtained by NY Post “How is this happening, and how is it that you saw what happened, and just were a bystander?” The victim said she also suffered a concussion from the hateful attack. Smith is facing charges of hate crime assault, hate crime criminal obstruction of breathing and aggravated harassment, court records show. “She’s pure evil, but she was lucid enough to know I was Jewish,” the victim said. A person's hand holds a large clump of dark hair with white flakes, likely from being pulled out during an assault. Antisemitic hate crimes spiked in New York City last month — police data [IsraelTimes] ​ Hate crimes targeting Jews spiked in New York City last month, compared to previous months, according to NYPD data released on Wednesday. There were 41 confirmed hate crimes targeting Jews in the city last month, the data showed. The figure amounted to 60 percent of all hate crimes in the city in May, marking a slightly higher percentage than normal, and an average of one antisemitic hate crime every 18 hours. Jews make up about 10% of the city’s population and are targeted in hate crimes in the city more than all other groups combined every month. Experts say that many or most incidents are likely not reported to police. Last month, there were three hate crimes targeting Asians, zero against Black people, one against an unspecified ethnicity, one based on gender, one against a Hispanic person, five against Muslims, 10 against unspecified religious groups, five based on sexual orientation, and one against a white person. The antisemitic hate crimes in May marked a jump of 46% over the average for the previous three months. There were 30 confirmed antisemitic crimes in April, 32 in March, and 21 in February. The NYPD changed its hate crime reporting in February, shifting from suspected incidents to confirmed incidents, so there is no data on confirmed incidents in January. After coming under criticism, the police now report both suspected and confirmed incidents. Suspected antisemitic incidents in the city last month included a rash of swastika graffiti targeting synagogues, Jewish areas, and other sites, vandalism of a kosher bagel shop, and an assault on a subway in Queens. Police arrested a New York University student on Tuesday for allegedly flying a swastika flag over a university building last month. Alexander Stepnowsky was charged with one count of hate crime burglary, two counts of aggravated harassment, and one count of criminal trespassing as a hate crime, court filings showed. Stepnowsky, who was born in 2002, pleaded not guilty and was released on his own recognizance. NYU said in a statement that “the symbols that were represented are antisemitic and hateful to every person of conscience; this appalling act violated our sense of community and solidarity.” “In addition to criminal proceedings, we will immediately pursue our disciplinary procedures, which carry the most severe consequences,” the statement said. Anti-Jewish crimes last month were up 71% compared to May 2025, as hate crimes against all groups went up 74%. So far this year, Jews have been targeted in 152 confirmed hate crimes in the city, accounting for 57% of the total — the same percentage as all of 2025. Hate crimes against all groups increased 8.6% in the first five months of 2025, compared to the same period last year. For Jews, incidents went up 6.3% this year. The increase in hate crimes is bad news for Mayor Zohran Mamdani, who took office on January 1 and had pledged to combat hatred in the city. The prevalence of hate crimes is affected by a range of factors largely outside of the city government’s control, though, such as broad social trends, national and international news, and the weather. Warmer weather tends to correlate with an increase in hate crimes, for example, as more people come into contact outdoors, which could account for some of the increase last month. But mostly such crimes correlate to acceptance or rejection by the the mayor and society. When they talk about the Nakhba and shout “Free Palestine”, attacks on Jews increase. Ahead of Mamdani’s election, Jews in the city expressed fears about his handling of law enforcement due to his past antagonism toward police. Those fears have so far not been borne out. The NYPD in recent months has controlled anti-Zionist protests at synagogues and other locations, and the annual Israel parade on Sunday was one of the most highly-protected events in the city’s history, the NYPD said. |
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