A woman riding the New York City subway on Sunday screamed that “Jews are eating kids!” before assaulting a Jewish woman on the train, choking her and ripping her hair out, according to video footage and police.

She now faces hate crime charges.

Partial footage of the incident shared online by the Combat Antisemitism Movement shows the suspect, named by police as Diana Smith, 23, of the Bronx, cupping her hand to her mouth and shouting, “So Jews, Jews are eating kids!”

In jump cuts included in the 19-second video, she repeats the smear, and says, “You’re a Jew, I smell the kids,” and “It’s okay for her to eat a kid, but I can’t choke her down?” The camera then turns to a woman whose face is blurred, who says, “I was just assaulted.”

The victim, also 23, is a nurse from Montreal who now lives on Manhattan’s Upper West Side and has withheld her name. She told the New York Post that the suspect shoved, kicked and choked her, and pulled a clump of her hair out. She said she suffered a concussion.

The suspect was arrested and charged with hate crime assault as well as the hate crime of criminal obstruction of breathing, and aggravated harassment, the NYPD told The Times of Israel. In the video, the suspect appears to be wearing a military-style camouflage coat with a patch depicting the German tricolor flag.

Police said the incident occurred on an E Train at Canal Street in downtown Manhattan shortly after 2 p.m. on Sunday, and that the victim was treated for “minor injuries” at the scene.

“Officers were informed by a 23-year-old female victim that an unknown individual approached her and made........

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