"Groups of pro-Palestinian protesters attacked Jews in two separate incidents in Los Angeles this week.
Authorities are investigating one of the incidents as a possible hate crime.
In an altercation Tuesday night recorded on video, a group of men waving Palestinian flags attacked diners at a sushi restaurant in the neighborhood of Beverly Grove, throwing punches, bottles and other objects. The diners included a group of Jewish men.
Another man at the scene, who was not Jewish, told the local CBS affiliate that he and his group also were attacked and that he was pepper-sprayed when he tried to defend the group. He added that the attackers used antisemitic language to determine who at the restaurant was Jewish.
In an incident Monday night recorded by a security camera, an Orthodox Jewish man was chased by a caravan of Palestinian supporters. He escaped unharmed.
LA Mayor Eric Garcetti, in tweets posted Wednesday afternoon, said the city’s police department is 'investigating this assault as a hate crime, and we will respond with the full force of the law.'...”