{"id":214786,"date":"2026-03-11T12:15:20","date_gmt":"2026-03-11T12:15:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/214786\/"},"modified":"2026-03-11T12:15:20","modified_gmt":"2026-03-11T12:15:20","slug":"san-jose-police-investigating-possible-hate-crime-after-2-jewish-men-attacked-at-santana-row","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/214786\/","title":{"rendered":"San Jose police investigating possible hate crime after 2 Jewish men attacked at Santana Row"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">San Jose police are investigating a possible hate crime after two men said they were injured after being jumped in Santana Row because they were Jewish and speaking Hebrew.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The friends, who do not want to be identified, say they were waiting for a table at a upscale restaurant Sunday afternoon when three young men suddenly attacked them.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">&#8220;Every punch connected directly to where they wanted, to the head directly. It was on purpose to hit and make maximum damage,&#8221; one man said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">&#8220;One of the witnesses said that, they heard them saying, &#8216;don&#8217;t mess with Iran&#8217;, which we don&#8217;t know why,&#8221; the other man added. &#8220;We don&#8217;t have any problem with them. But, I heard at the beginning of the fight, something with, &#8216;F the Jews&#8217;.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">MORE: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.yahoo.com\/news\/articles\/san-jose-police-investigating-hate-134602015.html\" data-ylk=\"slk:San Jose police investigating hate crime after high school students form &#039;human swastika&#039;;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;outcm:mb_qualified_link;_E:mb_qualified_link;ct:story;\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;San Jose police investigating hate crime after high school students form &#039;human swastika&#039;&quot;}\" class=\"link  yahoo-link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">San Jose police investigating hate crime after high school students form &#8216;human swastika&#8217;<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">One of the two was knocked out cold and required stitches. The other was badly cut and bruised. Both went to the hospital.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">&#8220;This kind of violence not supposed to happen in the middle of the day on a Sunday &#8211; with kids and elderly people, and everybody&#8217;s walking around.&#8221; The man said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">MORE: <a href=\"https:\/\/abc7news.com\/post\/santana-row-stabbing-18-year-old-emanuel-sanchez-damian-suspect-involved-fatal-valentines-day-murder-denied-bail\/16023584\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:18-year-old suspect involved in fatal Valentine&#039;s Day stabbing at San Jose&#039;s Santana Row denied bail;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;18-year-old suspect involved in fatal Valentine&#039;s Day stabbing at San Jose&#039;s Santana Row denied bail&quot;}\" class=\"link \">18-year-old suspect involved in fatal Valentine&#8217;s Day stabbing at San Jose&#8217;s Santana Row denied bail<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">San Jose Police say they are aware of the incident from Sunday and an investigation is active and ongoing.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Because antisemitic language was allegedly used, their assault unit is investigating as a possible hate crime.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">This is not the first time we spoke with one of these men, <a href=\"https:\/\/abc7news.com\/post\/hate-crime-investigation-underway-san-jose-jewish-owned-business-vandalized\/17589626\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:his business was vandalized last August;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;his business was vandalized last August&quot;}\" class=\"link \"> his business was vandalized last August <\/a>with graffiti of swastikas and hateful language.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">MORE: <a href=\"https:\/\/abc7news.com\/post\/hate-crime-investigation-underway-san-jose-jewish-owned-business-vandalized\/17589626\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Hate crime investigation underway after San Jose Jewish-owned business vandalized;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;Hate crime investigation underway after San Jose Jewish-owned business vandalized&quot;}\" class=\"link \">Hate crime investigation underway after San Jose Jewish-owned business vandalized<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Tali Klima with the Bay Area Jewish Coalition says the widening conflict between Iran, the U.S. and Israel will only make antisemitism worse unless local leaders increase protections.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">&#8220;Antisemitism has been on the rise in the U.S., even before October 7th and it just keeps going up and up and up,&#8221; Klima said. &#8220;And so, it&#8217;s time to take this problem seriously and actually take concrete steps to address it.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">MORE: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.yahoo.com\/news\/articles\/san-francisco-church-vandalized-hate-044606837.html\" data-ylk=\"slk:San Francisco church vandalized with hate speech as suspect faces felony charges;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;outcm:mb_qualified_link;_E:mb_qualified_link;ct:story;\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;San Francisco church vandalized with hate speech as suspect faces felony charges&quot;}\" class=\"link  yahoo-link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">San Francisco church vandalized with hate speech as suspect faces felony charges<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">For the men, they&#8217;re grateful their injuries aren&#8217;t worse.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">But they are also calling on change to make sure this doesn&#8217;t happen to anyone else.<\/p>\n<p><a data-ylk=\"ct:story;elm:img;itc:0;\" class=\"stretched-box\" href=\"https:\/\/abc7news.com\/abc-news-live-local-watch\/11513295\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\"><img alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"960\" height=\"540\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"rounded-lg\" style=\"color:transparent\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/131c44567cfd550c1c93df1368fb6896.jpeg\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">If you&#8217;re on the ABC7 News app, <a href=\"https:\/\/abc7news.com\/abc-news-live-local-watch\/11513295\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:click here to watch live;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;click here to watch live&quot;}\" class=\"link \">click here to watch live<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"San Jose police are investigating a possible hate crime after two men said they were injured after being&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":214787,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[36698,88,90,89,17060,69555,31447,98515],"class_list":["post-214786","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-jose","tag-hate-crime","tag-san-jose","tag-san-jose-headlines","tag-san-jose-news","tag-san-jose-police","tag-santana-row","tag-sunday-afternoon","tag-upscale-restaurant"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214786","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=214786"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214786\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/214787"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=214786"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=214786"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=214786"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}