Friday, June 05, 2026
Jewish woman from Montreal recalls being choked, beaten on New York subway train
A 23-year-old registered nurse and Montreal native says “I now understand that every Jew is a target” after she was choked twice, kicked, thrown to the floor and her hair pulled from her scalp by another passenger while on a subway train Sunday in New York.
The woman recorded the beginning of the assault from her smartphone while riding the C train on the afternoon of May 31. The train was packed with commuters, yet no one intervened initially when a female assailant turned around, cupped her right hand to her mouth and shouted the blood libel: “Jews are eating kids!”
The assailant then leaned toward the nurse — who is of the orthodox Jewish faith — telling her: “You’re a Jew. I smell the kids.”
The crowd let out a collective gasp when the assailant shoved the nurse, prompting some passengers to pull the attacker away from the petite woman. In the video, the assailant seems to be shocked that other passengers would disapprove of her actions.
“It’s okay for her to eat a kid but I can’t choke her down?” she is heard protesting.
The video of the woman’s assault — which was posted on the X social media platform by Combat Antisemitism Movement — has been viewed more than 350,000 times as of Friday morning, was the subject of a New York Post story and has led to a reckoning about the rise of antisemitism in the city that never sleeps.
The woman recorded the beginning of the assault from her smartphone while riding the C train on the afternoon of May 31. The train was packed with commuters, yet no one intervened initially when a female assailant turned around, cupped her right hand to her mouth and shouted the blood libel: “Jews are eating kids!”
The assailant then leaned toward the nurse — who is of the orthodox Jewish faith — telling her: “You’re a Jew. I smell the kids.”
The crowd let out a collective gasp when the assailant shoved the nurse, prompting some passengers to pull the attacker away from the petite woman. In the video, the assailant seems to be shocked that other passengers would disapprove of her actions.
“It’s okay for her to eat a kid but I can’t choke her down?” she is heard protesting.
The video of the woman’s assault — which was posted on the X social media platform by Combat Antisemitism Movement — has been viewed more than 350,000 times as of Friday morning, was the subject of a New York Post story and has led to a reckoning about the rise of antisemitism in the city that never sleeps.
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