A suspect in an antisemitic attack on two people last weekend in SF's Marina District has been charged with a hate crime and is being arraigned today.

A man who was allegedly shouting "Fuck the Jews, free Palestine" in the vicinity of Fillmore and Moulton streets early Saturday morning, before he allegedly sucker-punched a male victim, is being arraigned on assault and hate crime charges today in San Francisco Superior Court.

The suspect has been identified as 36-year-old Juan Diaz-Rivas, and District Attorney Brooke Jenkins announced the charges against him on Tuesday. He's been charged with two counts of assault with force likely to cause great bodily injury, and  one count of assault with great bodily injury, with the enhancement that this was a hate crime.

Alana Gans, 28, earlier told the story of Saturday's events to the Chronicle, saying that she was standing on the street around 2:30 am with her 27-year-old friend waiting for an Uber when she heard Diaz-Rivas yelling "Fuck the Jews," and told him to stop, saying she was Jewish.

Diaz-Rivas then allegedly got in Gans's face and began screaming at her, at which point her male friend intervened, and Diaz-Rivas then allegedly sucker-punched him, knocking both her friend and Gans to the ground.

The DA's office says that the male victim "fell to the ground, hit his head and lost consciousness," and "Allegedly, Mr. Diaz-Rivas and others in the group continued to punch and kick the victim while he was down."

The DA's office announcement also adds the detail that a worker at a neighboring business who heard the antisemitic shouting came out to intervene, and "while trying to help the victim he was kicked and punched" as well.

Jenkins has not directly commented on the case as yet, but state Senator Scott Wiener gave a comment on Bluesky Tuesday commending Jenkins for "sticking up for the safety of our Jewish community."

"Antisemitism on both left and right is deadly real," Wiener said. "It happens in small ways and large, in our schools and universities, in the workplace, on social media, in public meetings, and in community spaces. The daily antisemitic statements and actions we see — demonizing Jews, holding Jews to unique standards, and promoting anti-Jewish stereotypes and conspiracy theories — inevitably lead to violence, and we are seeing that play out in San Francisco and around the country."

A second case with hate-crime implications arose Tuesday with the vandalism of the Pink Triangle on Twin Peaks, and a 19-year-old suspect was arrested at the scene. Charges in that case have not yet been filed.

Previously: Antisemitic Attack Reported in Marina District Early Saturday Morning

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