Earlier this week, a subway commuter attacked a Jewish woman for eating kids.

Video footage shows a Black woman shouting inside a subway car full of commuters, “Jews are eating kids!”

She leans toward a Jewish woman and says, “I smell the kids” as the woman repeatedly says, “Don’t touch me.”

Details of the assault are unclear in the footage, but other commuters push her back, shouting, “Whoa, whoa, whoa!”

“It’s okay for her to eat kids?” the woman yells. “I can’t choke her down?”

“I was just assaulted,” the shocked victim says in a trembling voice.

Subsequent photos show the woman’s red scalp and a missing tuft of hair.

The incident occurred just days before the New York Police Department released data showing a 71% increase in hate crimes in May compared to the same period last year, with Jews garnering a staggering 60.3 percent of incidents, despite forming only 10 percent of the population of New York City.

Out of a total of 98 hate crimes, 60 targeted Jews, followed by the next-highest category, unspecified religion, with 12 incidents. Muslims suffered the fourth-highest number of hate crimes, at five incidents, which means that 12 times more hate crimes targeted Jews than Muslims. Third, at 10 hate crimes, was sexual orientation, with 11 combined for all other groups.

Critics of NYC Mayor Zohran Mamdani who have said that his actions against protecting Jews, such as vetoing a bill that would create buffer zones around schools and reversing his predecessor Eric Adams’ protections, would make Jews less safe can point to these statistics as proof that their assessment was correct.