Man berates Jewish customer who was getting breakfast with his kid at kosher cafe in NYC: ‘Hitler was onto something’
A man berating a Jewish customer trying to enjoy breakfast with his young child inside a kosher cafe in Brooklyn — with disturbing video showing the unhinged man describing all Jewish people as “evil” and claiming Adolf Hitler “was onto something.”
The footage, shot inside the Almah cafe, along Utica Avenue, shows the moment a man dressed in a pink hoodie confronts a customer on Thursday morning, demanding he give his opinion on the war in Gaza.
“You guys are killing babies,” the man tells the frustrated father, adding that “something bad is going to happen” to Jewish people.
“Jewish people are evil,” he repeatedly yells at the people inside the restaurant. “I think Hitler was onto something.”
Along with the veiled threat, the man also claimed Jewish people were behind the assassination of John F. Kennedy and attempted assassinations of Donald Trump.
Almah cafe owner Shira Asias, 34, said she was shocked and embarrassed to see such hateful rhetoric spewed inside her own establishment.
Asias opened the cafe in 2020 with her husband, and she said the two of them have never witnessed anything like this before in their diverse neighborhood.
“This is the first time seeing something like this inside our own place,” she told The Post. “I feel so ashamed and embarrassed.
“It’s one thing to be against the war, but it’s another to just openly harass Jewish people and say such things,” Asias added. “This is just antisemitism against Jewish people in New York.”
Liora Rez, founder of the StopAntisemitism advocacy group, slammed the now viral video as yet another indication of how rampant anti-Jewish hate has spread across the Big Apple and the country.
“Rising hate crime statistics are not just numbers—they reflect a terrifying reality where everyday outings are shadowed by racism and violent antisemitism,” Rez told The Post.
“No family should endure blood libel and genocidal threats while simply trying to enjoy their morning coffee.”
In the year since Hamas carried out the Oct. 7 massacre in Israel, more than 10,000 antisemitic incidents were recorded in the US, a 200% increase from the previous year and the most ever recorded by the Anti-Defamation League.
