The Santa Clara County Sheriff's Office is seeking a suspect who allegedly attacked a Muslim student at Stanford University with his car and drove away, reported Bay City News.
"The collision is being investigated as a hate crime, because the suspect reportedly yelled 'F--- you and your people' out the window of his vehicle after making eye contact with the man, accelerating, and striking him as he crossed the intersection of Campus Drive and Ayrshire Farm Lane," said the report.
The victim was taken to the hospital after the suspect fled. He has survived the injuries sustained in the alleged attack.
The victim identified the suspect as a "white, unshaven adult male in his mid-20s" wearing glasses and a gray top, and driving a "black Toyota SUV with a tire mounted on the rear," which likely now has passenger-side bumper damage from striking the victim.
The brutal terrorist attack against Israel by Hamas and the subsequent war in Gaza has resulted in a flaring of rage around the United States, accompanied by both antisemitic and Islamophobic assaults and other incidents.
In Illinois, a landlord faces hate crime charges after allegedly stabbing a 6-year-old Palestinian Muslim boy to death with a military knife, and then stabbing his mother, causing her severe injuries. Meanwhile, in Indianapolis, a woman carried out a vehicle-ramming terrorist attack on what she thought was a Jewish school, but which turned out to actually be a headquarters for the Radical Hebrew Israelites, an antisemitic hate group.
