A bigot in a graffiti-covered van chucked a rock at a Jewish man as he entered a Queens synagogue over the weekend, police said early Monday,
The 23-year-old victim – wearing traditional religious garb – was walking into the Bais Yosef D’Ulem on 72nd Road near 141st Street in Kew Gardens Hills just after 9 a.m. Saturday when the hate crime suspect flung a small rock at him, striking his leg, cops said.
The suspect did not say anything as they targeted the unsuspecting victim in the cowardly drive-by attack, police said.
The tagged-up white Mercedes-Benz Sprinter van then continued heading west on 72nd Road toward 139th Street, cops said.
No arrests have been made. Police released a photo of the vehicle in hopes of tracking down the hateful suspect.
The suspect said nothing during the attack, which is being investigated by the NYPD’s Hate Crime Task Force. NYPDThe victim was not hurt and refused medical attention on the scene.
The NYPD’s Hate Crimes Task Force is investigating the incident, the department confirmed.
The troubling incident came more than a month after the Anti-Defamation League reported that New York led the nation in anti-Semitic attacks for the second straight year in 2022, with 580 such incidents reported in the state, a record high.
