As I hurried through the cold rain on an autumn day in the Upper East Side, a stranger suddenly approached me and screamed, “Free Palestine. You are all genocidal baby killers. You all need to get the f*** out of Israel!” My only “crime?” Wearing a yarmulke.

No other Jewish identifier or Israel memorabilia was on my person. I was lucky– this encounter ended with words. Earlier this month, an Israeli Jew was beaten so severely outside a Manhattan kosher restaurant that he suffered a brain bleed .

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