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Pro-Palestinian demonstrators are captured on cellphone video physically attacking Jews and using antisemitic language at a restaurant in Los Angeles, May 18, 2021. (Screenshot)
(JTA) Groups of pro-Palestinian protesters attacked Jews in two separate incidents in Los Angeles this week.
Authorities are investigating one of the incidents as a possible hate crime.
In an altercation Tuesday night recorded on video, a group of men waving Palestinian flags attacked diners at a sushi restaurant in the neighborhood of Beverly Grove, throwing punches, bottles and other objects. The diners included a group of Jewish men.
Another man at the scene, who was not Jewish, told the local CBS affiliate that he and his group also were attacked and that he was pepper-sprayed when he tried to defend the group. He added that the attackers used antisemitic language to determine who at the restaurant was Jewish.
Nate Smallwood | Tribune-Review
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With a sharp increase in anti-Semitic attacks occurring in U.S. cities, the Jewish Federation of Greater Pittsburgh is holding a “Stand Against Anti-Semitism” rally Tuesday.
The June 1 rally will be held at the City-County Building Downtown starting at 6 p.m.
Since the fighting between Israel and Hamas in the Gaza Strip began May 10, reports of anti-Semitic attacks in U.S. cities have risen 63%, according to the Anti-Defamation League.
They include reports of a Jewish man being punched, kicked and pepper-sprayed in Times Square in New York by a group making threats against Jews and Israel and of a window being broken at a synagogue in Skokie, Ill., where the attackers left a sign that read “Freedom for Palestine.”