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Jewish teen hospitalized after antisemitic attack in Manchester

(JTA) — A Jewish teenager was knocked unconscious in what Manchester, England, police are treating as a hate crime. The boy, 17, was one of four young people assaulted

Saturday night, Sept. 5, by three men at a Metrolink train station near Heaton Park, located in the heart of north Manchester’s Jewish community, the London Jewish Chronicle reported. He remains in the hospital with a suspected bleed on his brain. The Community Security Trust, Britain’s antisemitic watchdog, described the attack as a “serious antisemitic assault,” according to the Chronicle.

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