Torossian said scores of black men surrounded him and Maoz, spitting, hurling bottles and shouting,x “Hitler should have finished you off” and “We’re going to get you. Go home, Jew, go home.”

A park policeman told them to leave, because they were inciting a riot, or else they would be arrested, Torossian said. They were demonstrating on behalf of AMCHA, a group led by Rabbi Avi Weiss.

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