A group of Jewish men were harassed in Connecticut on Tuesday, according to the New Haven Police Department, in an unprovoked altercation in which a man accused them of committing genocide and knocked off one of their kippas.
The three men were reportedly having a conversation on the sidewalk when a man began shouting at them, calling them “baby killers” and asking if they liked genocide.
The man shoved aside a fourth person who attempted to intervene, threw a rolled-up newspaper at the victims, and then slapped a kippa from one of their heads to the ground.
NHPD appealed to the public on Thursday for their aid in identifying the suspect.
In May, the Antidefamation League reported that Connecticut suffered 126 recorded antisemitic incidents in 2025. This was a 21% decline from the previous year, but significantly more than the 34 incidents reported in 2021.
