Jewish Kids Beaten At Starbucks Coffee Shop in Brooklyn | WATCH
Two disturbing incidents of antisemitic violence and harassment of Jewish teens and students in America over the last week.
Jewish children were physically assaulted and terrorized at a Starbucks in Brooklyn in a targeted hate crime that has left the community reeling.
The attack happened yesterday, February 15, 2026, at a Starbucks location in Brooklyn (exact branch still being confirmed amid the chaos). A group of young Jewish kids were inside when they were confronted, harassed, and beaten by assailants in what witnesses describe as a clear antisemitic assault. The footage shows the horrifying moment: screams echoing, kids crying in fear as the violence unfolds right in the middle of a public coffee shop.
NYPD is investigating, but no arrests have been announced yet.
This follows another disturbing incident when Jewish students and Hillel staff from DePaul University were targeted and driven out of a popular Lincoln Park coffee shop last week, as a pro-Palestinian mob, led by campus activists, chanted violent slogans.
The incident occurred on February 11, 2026, at Olive & Oak Cafe, located just steps from DePaul's campus. The gathering was a routine Hillel and Jewish United Fund (JUF) coffee hour, promoted openly on social media to allow Jewish students from DePaul, Loyola University Chicago, and Roosevelt University to connect over drinks in a safe space. About a dozen students had gathered when the harassment began.
As more Jewish attendees arrived, a crowd of activists, many wearing keffiyehs and displaying "Free Palestine" messaging, descended on the cafe. They chanted "Globalize the Intifada," a phrase widely condemned as a call for violence against Jews worldwide, and demanded the staff blast Palestinian music. Witnesses described the group, identified as members of DePaul's Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) chapter, as growing increasingly aggressive, shouting antisemitic tropes about Israel and physically intimidating participants.
Cafe staff not only failed to intervene or de-escalate, they actively joined the hostility. According to multiple accounts, employees cheered on the mob, asked if they could "kick them out," and one staffer deliberately shoulder-checked a JUF employee. Instead of protecting paying customers, the business sided with the agitators.
When the Jewish students and staff finally left to escape the chaos, the crowd erupted in chants of "We won!" while filming and photographing them on their way out. "This is just one more place I’ve been excluded from since I started college," one student leader told Hillel staff afterward. "I can’t be in social clubs, I can’t be in Greek life, and now I can’t go to a local cafe simply because I’m Jewish."
The event has sparked widespread outrage online, with posts from figures like Hen Mazzig and the American Jewish Committee (AJC) labeling it "targeted antisemitic harassment" rather than legitimate protest. DePaul University, which suspended its SJP chapter through 2027 last year for policy violations, has faced renewed calls for accountability.
Olive & Oak has not publicly responded.