'Horrific' assault outside Bay Area restaurant prompts hate crime investigation
By Madilynne Medina,
News Reporter
March 11, 2026
Police are investigating a violent assault that happened outside a Santana Row restaurant over the weekend as a possible hate crime.
The altercation occurred Sunday afternoon on the 300 block of Santana Row after a group of three men approached two other men, resulting in a physical fight, the San Jose Police Department said in a statement. During the fight, the two men told police that the suspects used “antisemitic language.”
Police have yet to reveal more details about the incident, but Daniel Klein, the CEO of Jewish Silicon Valley, a nonprofit organization, told SFGATE that he spoke with the two men who were attacked. He said the men, who are Israeli American, were walking down the street while speaking to each other, eventually stopping at a restaurant. Another nonprofit organization, Combat Antisemitism Movement, said in a post on X that the two men were allegedly speaking Hebrew near the Augustine restaurant before the altercation occurred.
While the two men were waiting for a table, Klein said three men allegedly approached them “out of nowhere,” knocked one person “out cold” and jumped on top of the other man. A video of the altercation shared with Bay Area News Group and circulating on social media shows a man being pulled to the ground before a group of people repeatedly punch and kick him.
https://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/hate-crime-investigation-santana-row-22071423.php
