The disturbing vehicular attack on Orthodox students and rabbis outside a Brooklyn yeshiva on Wednesday is a sickening symptom of a recent spike in antisemitism, politicians and community leaders said.

“This crime should be an eye-opener happening right there in south Brooklyn,” state Assemblywoman Jaime Williams told The Post Thursday. “If this can happen here, it can happen anywhere. If the Jewish students weren’t paying attention they would have been run over.”

Mark Treyger, CEO of the Jewish Community Relations Council and a one-time city lawmaker, called the disturbing incident a symptom of the times.

“This dangerous incident can’t be seen in isolation with the backdrop of rising antisemitism,” Treyger said. “No community should have to be worried about their children being run over because of their faith or identity. Government leaders at all levels have to do a better job of holding these bad actors accountable.”

Asghar Ali, 58, a Pakistani immigrant and Big Apple cabbie, was charged with attempted assault as a hate crime, attempted assault and menacing in the shocking Wednesday morning incident in Flatbush.

Surveillance footage of the incident shows a white 2011 Crown Victoria mounting the curb outside the Mesivta Nachlas Ykov Vien Yeshiva shortly before 11:30 a.m. on Wednesday.

Police said Ali was behind the wheel, and even circled the block to take another run at five Orthodox students and two rabbis before he was busted in a nearby Dunkin’ Donuts parking lot.

The incident comes in the midst of a disturbing rise in antisemitic incidents in the Big Apple stemming from the war between Israel and Hamas terrorists in the Gaza Strip sparked by a sneak attack on the Jewish State by radical militants on Oct. 7.

Anti-Israel protests have disrupted the five boroughs while pro-Palestinian encampments at Columbia University and other city campuses have led to violent clashes with police.

“I don’t wear anything that shows that I’m Jewish anymore,” said Noemi Goureau a 67-year-old business owner on the Upper East Side. “I’m hiding.

“It takes me back to the days of my grandparents in the Holocaust, you know? They were hiding and now we are too,” Goureau said. “It feels like a second Holocaust.”

Ben Stone, who owns a coffee shop near the New York University campus, said his business has dropped 60% because customers are scared off by the nearby anti-Israeli protests.

“Protests were half a block away, so anyone sitting outside could hear the chants of intifada while they’re enjoying their coffee, and whether you’re Jewish or not or just a regular New Yorker, you don’t want to hear genocidal chants while enjoying your coffee,” Stone said.

Wednesday’s attempt to mow down Jewish students and rabbis just adds fuel to the fire, officials said.

“This is not a random act,” said Jewish community activist Devorah Halberstam, who has been a vocal voice against antisemitism in the city since her 16-year-old son was murdered on the Brooklyn Bridge with other Jewish youngsters some 30 years ago.

“A man used a vehicle to attempt to murder,” Halberstam said. “It’s very egregious.

“What do we have to do? Wait for people to come out in body bags? Now is the time,” she said. “I spent the last 30 years fighting against hate, fighting against antisemitism. Silence is not an option. Headlines come and go but victims are forever.”

In a statement Thursday, a spokesperson for the City Council called the incident “deeply disturbing.”

The NYPD has already announced tight security for the upcoming Salute to Israel Parade.