and I was coming back from work right
over here in onong so I was coming back
and I was sitting on the Queue it
happened to board the queue train at
11:30 on Friday night Walter and three
of his friends were heading home after a
Hanukkah party in Manhattan I'd been out
to a supper club with uh Maria Paro my
girlfriend a Friday night in New York
City around 11:30 uh we boarded the
Train
on Canal Street on the last car on the
Queue when he turned to another group of
riders said ABY Hanukah like happy
Hanukkah my friends like something to
that effect and almost immediately you
see the look in this guy's face like
I've called his mother something like
I've said something to him that like
rubs him the wrong way and I see the way
this guy looks and I see the way this
guy wants to fight me and I look and I
see another guy right in front of me
another guy and I see the crowd moving
in in the melee that followed Walter and
his friends were beaten up a guy um in
the back of the train they got very
angry and you know very insulted by that
actually goes Hanukkah that's when the
Jews killed
Jesus you killed him you killed Jesus
you killed him on Hanukkah you dirty Jew
you effing Jew and I basically you know
said that's ridiculous I'm not like you
know want to start crap with people on
the train and on the street but I'm
going to stand up for Hebrew people the
asant still were being very loud and
rowy dirty Jew dirty and they were at
this point they were getting very conf
inational with them and the poor guy you
know Walton the whole group of then they
were trying to diffuse it and basically
say yo we're going to pull these Jews
off the train and at decal and beat them
on the platform this is horrible I mean
this is horrible this is the biggest
wave of anti-Semitism I've ever been
involved in in New York attacking
somebody because they yell heavy
Hanukkah is obviously reason to believe
that this was an anti-semitic episode
when Hassan ascari another passenger
tried to help he was beaten up too I
don't understand they they just said
happy Hanukkah that was it there was
nothing else no provoking there were
there were 14 of them total six girls
and eight guys and uh they're hitting me
in the face I'm bleeding on the ground
my lid splits open I'm bleeding and this
random stranger uh Hassan Airi jumps in
I thought one of the sence might came up
to one of the girls and he might do
something and that time I grabbed one of
I grabbed him and I pulled him to the
side and I said you know what's wrong
are you crazy s what are you doing they
all grabbed me and then they pushed me
against the wall and then they you know
punched me a little bit from there they
beat up Walter they punched him and you
know they beat him down pretty bad he
was really bad to see what happened
hanan's the only person to try and help
us at all everybody runs to the back of
the car no one else helped us except
Hassan no one else on the train a Muslim
American saved us when our own people
were on the train and didn't do anything
and when everyone else's people were on
the train do anything someone who in the
media often gets painted as the enemy of
Israel and the Jews you know this is a
Bangladeshi Sunni Muslim this is someone
that jumped in he knew we were Jews to
help
us that guy Hanan my girlfriend and me
and my best friend might have been
beaten to death on that train if he
hadn't jumped in and helped us my my
father my parents they always brought me
up to help my fellow man there's no
question about you know whether I did
anything special or not what I did
should be the norm for anyone and Islam
it teaches you to be you know helpful to
your fellow man to be kind courteous
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hopefully this will reach a lot of
people and it will change the way people
view each other it will change the way
people act toward one another
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