Antisemitic straphanger rips out subway rider’s hair in horrific attack on packed train: ‘Jews are eating kids’

The New York Post ^ | 06/03/2026 | Reuven Fenton et al

[thegagline]

A raging woman spewing antisemitic hate pulled a Jewish rider’s hair on a Big Apple subway Sunday and screeched “Jews are eating kids,” according to cops and shocking video.

The suspect, identified by police as Bronx resident Diana Smith, shouted an assortment of vicious remarks against Jews on the crowded C train around 2:15 p.m. in lower Manhattan before she assaulted a 23-year-old Upper West Side woman, police said.

“I was a ragdoll and I couldn’t defend myself – there should have been a human barricade around me,” the young Orthodox Jewish victim, who asked her name be withheld, told The Post.

No one stepped up until it was too late.”

The victim, a nurse and Montreal native, recalled to The Post she entered the transit system at Jay Street and was riding for one stop when the suspect also hopped on and started speaking to a couple “about the dangers of Jews stealing wealth.”

She then turned to another couple and wildly said, “You could always see the reflection of a Jew,” said the Jewish woman, who did not want to be identified.

“And then she turned towards me, like very targeted, stared me down, and smiled with this very eerie smile that I’ll never forget,” the brave nurse said.

“I decided in that moment I really did not want to show fear in the face of that, so I stared at her right back down, and I said, ‘So you see my reflection?’ and she said, ‘Yeah, and I smell it on you too.’”

Part of the encounter was captured on the victim’s phone, which shows Smith’s ugly rhetoric.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; News/Current Events; US: New York
KEYWORDS: antisemitism; blacks; bronx; dianasmith; manhattan; newyork; newyorkcity; newyorkpost; reuvenfenton; whatstheperpsfrnick; zohranmamdani

[thegagline]

In case there is any doubt:

[null and void]

But but but but blacks are incapable of being racist!

[Red Badger]

I knew it was ‘them’ just from the headline................

[Sirius Lee]

All by government design.

[HYPOCRACY]

Nobody helped her because of the Daniel Penny effect. Nobody wants to do anything to stop crime and get arrested. Democracy good and hard.

[Sarah Barracuda]

I really dont know what the hell happened to the United States of America but I just dont recognize it anymore

[Snowybear]

I guessed the race before I even opened the article. Why is that?

-SB

[Unassuaged]

I found this a bit off: “there should have been a human barricade around me,” the young Orthodox Jewish victim”

—Why would you think that?

[frank ballenger]

Through the recent decades polls have shown roughly 40% of black people in the US hold negative views of Jewish people.

The expression of this prejudice in action is supported by the Dems and Socialists now, openly.

Impressionable types believe they are justified in being against them.

[Leaning Right]

> Nobody helped her because of the Daniel Penny effect. <

Yes. Plus there’s the shock effect. Unless you’re trained in rapid response, you just might freeze in place. At least for a while.

I once read about a karate master who got jumped in a city park. He knew all the right defensive moves. But the attack surprised him, so he froze.

And got himself beat up pretty bad.

[adorno]

I really dont know what the hell happened to the United States of America but I just dont recognize it anymore

It's the price we have to pay for being culturally and racially tolerant.

If we were to eradicate all the people that make the country uncivilized in many respects, we'd end up with perhaps half the country. We can't have that, can we? Thus, democrats are here to make sure we are culturally and racially tolerant and equal, even if it leads to a huge amount of crime.

[PAR35]

Polishing her resume for a Soros political appointment?

[roving]

Let me type this out slowly. She wanted people to pull her off and have a human barricade around her for protection.

[hanamizu]

Through the recent decades polls have shown roughly 40% of black people in the US hold negative views of Jewish people.

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Part of the reason is the fact that Jews were willing to open businesses in black parts of town. They have been pretty much superseded in this role by Koreans and later Arabs. All three groups are resented by many blacks because they are often successful, and for some strange reason don’t seem to trust their customers.

[TexasFreeper2009]

the level of stupid to actually believe such nonsense is hard to grasp

[House Atreides]

Oh, it’s THAT Diana Smith! I remember her as a very wealthy woman before the JOOZ stole all her wealth. /sarc

[frank ballenger]

The childishly absurd canard based on the antisemitic fake Protocols of the Elders of Zion spreads the slander that the Passover wine is filled with children’s blood. That slander has been repeated for decades and influences weak minded people. The wine is....wine. The matzah is....matzah.

It was originally a satire in France but was used by the secret police in Russia and then by antisemites all over the world.

From the Arab News:
Title: Proven false 100 years ago, antisemitic ‘Protocols’ document is still being exploited.

“The Times of London definitively demonstrated that the infamous “Protocols of the Elders of Zion” was nothing but a crudely plagiarized forgery. Yet despite that, the “Protocols” went on to fuel a century of hate, violence and even genocide against the Jewish people.”
https://www.arabnews.com/node/1906891/middle-east

[Ken H]

Yes, Booboo, yes it was.

[Flycatcher]

I was just going to post that very thought.