"Jerusalem police are investigating a suspected hate crime
in the capital on Wednesday night, in which a young Arab man was
allegedly attacked by Jewish youths.
The incident comes several weeks after dozens of Jewish youths attacked several young Arab men in Jerusalem's Zion Square on August 17, in what eyewitnesses described at the time as "a lynch."
The attack Wednesday night occurred in Jerusalem's southern Katamon
neighborhood, when Ibrahim Abu-Ta'ah, 28, a resident of Wadi Joz in East
Jerusalem, and another man were dropping off a female coworker after a
night
According to Abu-Ta'ah, the two men agreed to drop the woman off at her apartment after she told them she drank too much.
"She asked for help, so we decided to help her out," he told Haaretz.
"I sat in the back and he drove. We arrived at her home in Katamon and
she got out of the car, but couldn't stand."
According to Abu-Ta'ah, a number of young men in their late teens and
early twenties were sitting on the other side of the street. When they
saw the woman getting out, they approached the car."
