A hateful driver snarled “F–king Jew!” as he swerved his van toward congregants heading to a Brooklyn synagogue during Rosh Hashanah, cops and law enforcement sources said.
The victims were walking in the street, approaching the Shaare Shalom Congregation on Avenue S near Ocean Avenue, around 5:25 p.m. Thursday when the reckless driver “edged toward” them “in a threatening manner,” authorities and sources said.
“F–-ing Jew! Drop dead Zionist!” the motorist sneered as he veered toward at least two men in an attempt to scare them, according to the sources.
A 50-year-old man who was crossing the street at the time and did not want to be identified told The Post the driver did not try to hit him or direct any vitriol toward him — but he witnessed the mayhem as he headed to the high holy day service.
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“He’s beating one light and he had like loud Middle Eastern music, or foreign music playing,” the man said.
“He went down the block speeding, he did another turn [and] he visibly stopped those people in the crosswalk. He stopped them short, and then the individual was basically telling them, ‘Watch it, what’s going on?’ Then the individual inched up his car a little bit and said something about the Jews.”