A young Jewish couple was attacked Monday in an apparent anti-Semitic incident on Manhattan’s Upper East Side.
According to the New York Post, two cars and a motorcycle flying Palestinian flags pulled up to the Jewish couple on East 63rd Street near Third Avenue around 8 p.m. and began shouting anti-Jewish statements.
The attackers then threw a water bottle at the wife and punched the 27-year-old husband in the face when he moved to defend her, a police source was quoted as saying.
The victims, who live in the area but were not identified by authorities, were not seriously injured and refused medical attention at the scene.
The New York Police Department’s hate crimes unit is investigating the incident since it believes the victim was targeted because he was wearing a kippah or yarmulke.