New York City: Orthodox Jewish Man Stabbed on Street by Assailant Yelling “Free Palestine”
Arrest made: “Vincent Sumpter, 22, allegedly shouted “Free Palestine” and “Do you want to die?” at the victim before stabbing him during Shabbat near the intersection of Eastern Parkway and Kingston Avenue in Crown Heights.”
This is just absolutely disgusting in every way. A Jewish man was allegedly accosted and stabbed on the streets of New York City by a lunatic shrieking “Free Palestine.” The victim, Yechiel Dabrowskin, is expected to survive this horrendous, unconscionable attack.
🚨🚨🚨 BREAKING: Man shouting "FREE PALESTINE" stabs Jew in New York near Chabad Headquarters.
"Do you want to die?"
That's what the perpetrator — reportedly a black male in his early 20s — asked the victim, before he started stabbing him.
This happened on Shabbat. Local… pic.twitter.com/ucTVMpmz5E
— dahlia kurtz ✡︎ דליה קורץ (@DahliaKurtz) August 11, 2024
Full text of the above:
BREAKING: Man shouting “FREE PALESTINE” stabs Jew in New York near Chabad Headquarters.
“Do you want to die?”
That’s what the perpetrator — reportedly a black male in his early 20s — asked the victim, before he started stabbing him.
This happened on Shabbat. Local residents were able to detain the attacker until the police arrived and arrested him.
The victim is expected to recover.
But this is important to note:
In July, another Jewish man was stabbed in the same area, Crown Heights. Also on Shabbat.
Two stabbings. On Shabbat. Chabad Jewish men. In the same area.
The Intifada has been globalized.
An antisemitic thug allegedly yelled “Free Palestine” and stabbed a Jewish man in a hateful attack near the Chabad Headquarters in Crown Heights on Saturday morning, according to eyewitnesses.
The suspect allegedly approached Yechiel Dabrowskin around 2 a.m. near the Eastern Parkway and Kingston Avenue and shouted “Free Palestine” and “Do you want to die?” before knifing the victim, according to Yaacov Behrman, a spokesperson for Chabad-Lubavitch.
“It’s very, very painful,” Dabrowskin told Kan 11 News in Israel. “I had internal bleeding but thank God I had a miracle.”
He said he was part of a group that sat down to a peaceful dinner near the rebbe’s synagogue late Friday before the trouble broke out.
“At 2 a.m. they were saying that there was a person outside who was threatening children and teenagers,” Dabrowskin said. “I heard him say, ‘Free Palestine,’ ‘You want to die?’ [and] I asked him to leave.
“When you look at the footage you can see that me and a friend of mine were trying to distance him from us,” he continued. “All of a sudden he pulled out a knife.
“The knife went very close to my heart,” Dabrowskin added. “We all tackled him and we all called the police.”
Dabrowskin and his attacker, identified by police as 22-year-old Vincent Sumpter of Brooklyn, allegedly exchanged words before the shocking attack, Behrman wrote on X.
Yechiel Dabrowskin
According to the Times of Israel, a group of young men chased down the alleged assailant and held him until police arrived. Shockingly, given that this is New York City, these fine young men were not arrested instead.
Yaacov Behrman tweeted that during Shabbat, the young male attacker asked the man: “Do you want to die?” He then stabbed him.
The victim was taken to the hospital and is expected to make a full recovery, Behrman said.
A video of the incident posted online showed the assailant approaching a group of young Jewish men in the Crown Heights neighborhood of Brooklyn and then stabbing one of them. The victim was seen looking down, apparently at his injuries, but remained standing.
Behrman said other community members chased the attacker and pinned him down until police arrived and arrested him.
“This is an extremely serious incident,” Behrman said. “The victim could have been killed. This act of hateful violence highlights the dangerous impact of anti-Semitic incitement and hate propagated by some local politicians and leaders in New York and across the United States.”
According to the Yeshiva World News website, the victim was a member of the Lubavitch community and the assailant was a black man in his early 20s.
It reported that the incident is being investigated by New York police as a hate crime.
A man has been charged with a hate crime after allegedly stabbing a Jewish man near the Chabad Hasidic movement’s headquarters in Brooklyn in the early hours of Saturday morning.
Vincent Sumpter, 22, allegedly shouted “Free Palestine” and “Do you want to die?” at the victim before stabbing him during Shabbat near the intersection of Eastern Parkway and Kingston Avenue in Crown Heights.
The location is near 770 Eastern Parkway, Chabad’s world headquarters, an area that is heavily populated by Orthodox Jews.
Sumpter has been charged with eight felonies including assault as a hate crime for the incident, according to an arrest report.
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The reaction from the “Spielberg Jews” is predictable. And suicidal. That’s not news. These people have EndStage Terminal German Jew Disease, therefore beyond help – stiller streisand reiner emhoff schumer tommyboy friedman larrydavid
But, to my own mind, what is news, what is kinda interesting is that ok so now it’s routine for a Supremacist Movement to disregard laws in the US. In the 21st century.
“And they should not stop….” according to kamala harris.
One would expect they’d tone it down before the November election. But they’re not toning it down — so, they must have definitive plans for (a) killing trump, or (b) stealing the election. Or both.
Oh well. What’s on tv?
For the record, Stiller is not considered Jewish by the tenents of traditional Judaism.
What?!
His mother wasn’t Jewish.
I’ll let Milhouse weigh in here. Not being Jewish, I have no idea how all that works. But I do know that Christians (and others) can convert to Judaism, like Trump’s daughter Ivanka did. No idea if that makes her a “real” Jew, but it would seem that it would, no? I mean she denied Jesus Christ as her Savior; that’s a pretty big deal. Would this make her children Jewish by default? Very interesting.
What they said. Jewish status is rather like US citizenship: you can get it either by birth or by a valid naturalization. Naturalization has all sorts of requirements and tests and oaths; citizenship by birth has none of those.
Ivanka Trump was validly naturalized a Jew, by a court authorized by Jewish law to do so, after she demonstrated a genuine interest and commitment to Judaism, and passed a test on knowledge of Jewish beliefs and law. George Soros would never be accepted for conversion if he were to apply for it; but since his mother’s mother was a Jew, he became one automatically at birth. Ditto for Cardinal O’Connor, who didn’t even know he was a Jew. His family only found out about it after his death. Nonetheless, he was just as much a Jew as the chief rabbis of Israel.
fuzzy
you mean christians deny jesus is a jew
Fuzzy, non-Jews can convert, but Stiller’s mother never did, and neither did Stiller. Reform Jews would consider him Jewish, but traditional Jews would not.
Interesting! Thanks for the explainer, Jack.
There was no reply button for your question about Ivanka, so forgive my posting a reply here.
Yes, once Ivanka underwent a valid (i.e. Orthodox) conversion, she is considered Jewish for all purposes*, and any children born to her from and after that point would be deemed Jewish according to Jewish law. Any children born to her BEFORE her conversion would require a conversion of their own. If the child was not yet of the age of religious responsibility (12 years + 1 day for a girl, 13 +1 day for a boy), the child would need to reaffirm the conversion upon reaching that age.
(*As a convert, she would be ineligible to marry a man from the priestly class, i.e. a descendant of Aaron the high priest, but that’s also true of some women who were born Jewish. Her daughters born after her conversion do not inherit that convert status.)
Ohhh… Here we go. Another arbiter of who is Jewish and who isn’t.
Please ..!
It’s a case of Torah vs. Talmud. Was Obed a Jew?
Cowardly downvoter.
The Talmud is Torah. It’s a record of the Oral Law, which was given together with the Written Law, and without which the written law is unintelligible.
Which Obed? Ruth’s son? Absolutely. She converted, and thus her son was a Jew. The laws of conversion are largely based on her book.
Milhouse, Sadly, I upvoted you by mistake.
Mishna is the oral law. Talmud is rabbinical commentary.
Jesus the Messiah pointed out multiple inconsistencies between Torah and rabbinical practice. “Woe unto you lawyers …”
He’s not the arbiter, neither am I and neither are you. He’s simply explaining what the long established standard is, regardless of those who want to pretend there are none or make up their own.
When I was a kid, some of the other kids at the community center were absolutely convinced that you had to take the king AND queen to win a game of chess. If someone told them they were mistaken, would you accuse him of being an arbiter of chess?
Thank you.
If kamala walz take office, surely we’ll get keith x ellison for attorney general — and sharia-inspired decriminalized sexual intercourse of 9-yr-old girls like they recently passed into law in Minnesota.
What the hell are you talking about? No such thing has happened.
he might be close:
If the younger party is 13-15, their partners must be no more then 2 years older,
…….and children under 13 may only consent to those less than 36 months older.
^^^sooooo^^
that would indicate that a 9yo child and a (almost) 12 yo can consent
Care to cite the law by number and section?
/didn’t think so
…….and children under 13 may only consent to those less than 36 months older.
^^^sooooo^^
that would indicate that a 9yo child and a (almost) 12 yo can consent
Ellison went on to use the English translation of a Qur’an owned by Thomas Jefferson, George Sale’s Alcoran of Mohammed, for the swearing-in ceremony.[6][7]
so what if it was “owned” by jefferson etc
owning the book doesnt make you an adherent of the same
while ellison is a top leader in the fight against christianity etc
The perpetrator was no doubt mentally ill and his verbiage was inspired by recent campus protests. These protests are evil, widespread and worthy of coverage. Wholesale violence against Jews in this country has a long way to go before it reaches Berlin 1938 levels. In the meantime columnists search out every isolated story of a crazed, feeble minded loser and portentously describe it as part of an ominous trend. The left pulled this with black church burnings.
Except there were mighty few black churches burned, while there have been quite a few Jews attacked.
And quite a few Trump supporters, Christians, auto mechanics and interior decorators
Don’t disagree about that, but that is not what this is about.
There were a large number of black churches burned in 1994-5, which I think is what we’re talking about. But there was an important fact that the news industry deliberately omitted from the public discussion about this: That there were a whole lot more white churches that were also burned.
I remember an opinion piece by the late A. M. Rosenthal asking, if the church burnings are not racist, then why are there no white churches burning? The answer turned out to be that there were, but the news industry wasn’t reporting it.
The upshot was that the churches were indeed burning, but it had nothing to do with race. A certain number of churches do burn every year, for a variety of reasons, few of which have to do with hatred of any kind. Most if not all of the fires were neither anti-black nor anti-Christian.
Likewise, the fact that a Jew is attacked doesn’t in itself make it a hate crime; the motive often turns out to be something entirely different. But in this case the motive seems clear, and it’s hardly the first time. There’s a lot of antisemitism going around, and there’s an awful lot of murder and attempted murder that’s motivated by it.
The majority of black churches burned were by black men, their own pastor or gay right activists.
What a sad sad little man you are.
I’m a happy, 6’4 and 220.
If you think being 6’4″ and 220 pounds means you can’t be small, you are smaller than you realize. And if you are happy with your attitude, that just shows how sad you really are to the rest of the world.
Sad are religious sects that break every zoning ordinance on the books, don’t pay water and sewer bills, fill one-family houses with dozens of adherents and scream religious persecution when it’s pointed out.
Those zoning ordinances are illegal, as applied. The people you’re complaining of are simply standing on their legal rights. And they certainly do pay their legal bills; they don’t pay bogus charges that are illegally imposed on them because the local government doesn’t want them there.
OK. So we are at 1937 levels. Does that make it any better?
The ever increasing attacks on Jews in the United States aren’t decreasing. They are increasing.
I guess we’ll have to wait until Jews are loaded onto trains before it becomes a problem? Hmmm?
Yep. An increasing trendline of attacks isn’t positive for the Nation. Especially when the context is a wokiesta/lefty induced mob mentality of hatred against Jews, among others the wokiesta/left despise.
In reality, mighty darn few will care. Don’t doubt me.
Please read the history of Germany (and Poland and Eastern Europe) during the period from the turn of the century; you may find it quite enlightening.
Compare it to today’s difficulties and you may find it contradicts your currently held views.
This is one of the reasons that so many Jews fled Europe to just about anywhere else (diaspora is a very good word to employ at this point) during that period
He’s already told us in his 9:35 post that the Jews had/have it coming. An attitude he seems to reconcile with his insistence that nothing in particular is happening to them.
it is both ominous and a trend
oct 7 in israel didnt happen in a vacuum and is endemic of the continued world wide ages old systemic nazism against israel>>jews
correct that other groups also fall prey to sinister leftists
but it is disingenuous to say that the anti semitism is fake/padded/false by any measure
I wish Jews, especially in NYC, would not be so prickly about being armed. As the attacker took out his knife to threaten the victim, the victim or anyone in the vicinity would have been fully in the right to eliminate the attacker.
Chabad does not rely on eruvim. Bottom line that means no carrying ANYTHING in the street on Shabbos, even a baby or a house key, much less a weapon, even if there is an eruv. And AFAIK, there is no eruv around Crown Heights, so even a Jew who relies on an eruv (as my community does) would not generally be able to carry a weapon or anything else.
For what it’s worth, all of Brooklyn is inside an eruv which is even up to Chabad standards, but the Crown Heights beth din refuses to recognize it.
In any event, if there were a real risk justifying carrying weapons on Shabbos at all, it would also justify carrying them outside an eruv. But the risk level in Brooklyn at the moment isn’t that high.
People getting stabbed is a high enough standard. The thing is that no one knows when and where it will happen, so any risk level should suffice for carrying firearms on Shabbat.
If people were being stabbed all the time then it would be. But the rate is still pretty low. People walk the streets of Crown Heights at all hours and very rarely does anything happen to them; if the risk were significant they would stay home and not be on the streets in the first place.
I wonder which is worse:
carrying a weapon for (possible) self-defense on Shabbos or
not carrying a weapon which might be the equivalent of committing suicide
It depends on the level of risk. Taking a reasonable risk is not in any way comparable to suicide; taking unreasonable risks is. There are places where the risk is high enough to justify carrying weapons constantly. Brooklyn, NY is not such a place.
All of Brooklyn? Thanks I didn’t know that. Whose auspices is it under?
I agree with you on the issue of pekuach nefesh though of course it’s something one would need to ask his Rav in any given case.
But as far as the Crown Hts Beis Din, I have never heard of any Chabadnik relying on a public eruv anywhere.
Follow the link for details on the eruv. Unlike most eruvin, it follows the highest standards, and thus there is no reason why a Chabad chassid should not use it. But the CHBD doesn’t like it so open carry in CH may not be a pleasant experience; when I’m there I carry concealed.
Piku’ach nefesh (saving a life) should trump Shabbat. Nothing else can be carried though.
Maybe it’s time to hire heavily armed shabos goyim?
Just thinking out loud.
They’re called the NYPD 🙂 (or should that be 🙁 ?)
Cops protecting Jews? Yeah. Right.
Were that it were so. Al tismokh al ha-nes (don’t depend on miracles). I for one would carry now on Shabbat because we all at risk.
Jack, you can assess the level of risk by observing people’s behavior. If normal people are not acting as if they were genuinely in danger, then they’re probably not.
There is a normal level of risk that we all assume as a matter of course all the time, and don’t take even a minimum of effort to avoid. But if we perceive an unusually high risk, we take measures to avoid it.
So if you see that people are routinely taking precautions, not going out unnecessarily, and even then not going out alone, making sure people know where they are, etc., those are signs that there’s a real danger. But if people are routinely going out alone at 2:00 AM without even thinking about it, that’s a good sign that the risk level really isn’t all that high, even if there is the occasional incident.
what?? no offense but that is going to get a lot of innocent people hurt by these leftist scum
do they also do that in Israel?
not carry
‘We may never know the reason for this attack.’
– FBI, soon.
That would be par for the FBI if they said that. The FBI delende est. The FBI has become such a pathetic joke.
They have been a joke for decades. About ten of them.
Wow did this thread get off track. This wack job has been inspired by student protests egged on by the President and Vice Presidents attacks on the Israel and the bending of the knee to hamas to garner the extermination vote. FKH
sure hope the jewishcommunity doesnt physically strike back at them
Another factor that this attack points out is the difference [for now] between our country and the European version of North Korea [formerly Great Britain]. From our news reports of the attack in New York City we have enough details of the attack, the victim, and the suspect to have a theological argument about it.
From a news report I saw on another site this morning, yesterday just before noon an 11 year old girl and her 34 year old mother were attacked and stabbed repeatedly with a knife in broad daylight in Leicester Square [the London equivalent of our Broadway theater district]. The man was restrained by a nearby store security guard and bystanders until police arrived. The victims were taken by ambulance to their version of an ER.
The only description of the assailant was a man in his mid to early 30’s. We all know what it means when officialdom will not identify or describe a suspect. It means the suspect is a protected class.
In the wake of the recent arrests in Britain of people who just comment online about seeing demonstrations against the recent murders of young girls in Britain [and threats to come arrest Americans who do the same thing from their own homes], it is not surprising that the police are apparently having difficulty getting any witness statements from what had to be a large crowd of witnesses. When being a witness makes you a felon, this is not surprising.
I found it noteworthy that apparently all the security guard would say was that he was just trying to protect the little girl; as if he expects that he is in trouble for intervening.
What was Britain has fallen, and you can be sure that the American Left is taking notes.
Subotai Bahadur
Try that in Texas where a lot of people walk around armed. Of course in Austin (which is as blue as Berkeley) you might get prosecuted for legitimate self defense, and an Austin jury might even convict. But the governor is willing to pardon such a miscarriage of justice and has done exactly that, recently. I have gone Chabad Shabbat services armed, with the approval and encouragement of the Rabbi. Lots of others in the congregation do as well.
I was born in NYC and spent about the first third of my life there until I moved out to more civilized places. I had a few attacks (all unsuccessful) from blacks as I lived and worked in some pretty rough areas. I now view NYC as largely depraved and full of stupid people. The murder of Kitty Genovese in 1964 was an early indication of what was coming. It’s worse now than in the 1970s. People did not get pushed on the subway tracks. While crime was bad then, it didn’t have the depravity one sees these days.
It’s time Jews fought back. Israel too has to learn about defense at the personal level Nothing says “never again” like an armed Jew.
^^^^^that^^^^^^^
Koreans during the L.A. riots (Rodney King verdict) have demonstrated how an American community can protect itself. There are other examples as well, Brooklyn Jews need to up their game. The Lrd helps those who help themselves.
It really tears me up inside as a Catholic to see this level of Jew hate here in our Republic. How can we carry on with people like this poisoning our country?