Shocking video showed a Jewish student being pummeled by a classmate outside a Canadian high school in what she says was an antisemitic attack.

Shaked Tsurkan, who is Israeli Canadian, identified her attacker as an older female Muslim student who allegedly threatened her earlier in the day at Leo Hayes High School in Fredericton, in the Canadian province of New Brunswick, according to Canadian Jewish News (CJN).

A video of the alleged assault posted on social media shows a female student wearing a pink hoodie run up to Tsurkan from behind, grab her by the hair and start laying multiple punches into her in a parking lot away from school grounds.

A video of the alleged assault posted on social media shows a female student running up to Tsurkan and launching an assault on her. @bnaibrithcanada/X

Tsurkan is dragged to the ground while still suffering repeated blows to her face and body, as several bystanders huddle around and casually watch, the clip shows. At least one person can be seen filming the incident, which occurred on April 30.

Tsurkan appears to try to fight off her alleged attacker as she flails around on the ground and struggles to get up, according to the footage.

A man soon walks up to the pair and breaks up the fight.

Tsurkan reportedly sustained black eyes, multiple cuts, scratches and bruises.

She said the assailant was suspended from school for five days, according to the publication.

The student wearing black can be seen receiving multiple blows to her head. @bnaibrithcanada/X

Tsurkan said she was left with black eyes and multiple cuts, scratches and bruises. @bnaibrithcanada/X

When the student returned from suspension, Tsurkan said, she was advised to use the teachers’ washroom, to stay inside the school building during the day and not to walk alone.

“I want the school to know (what happened is) not OK,” she told CJN.

“(The school) is still saying it’s my fault that I went outside.”

Anglophone School District West spokesperson Paul MacIntosh said the school was “aware of an act of violence that occurred.” Google St View

“They’re blaming me about what happened.”

“We are aware of an act of violence that occurred among a small number of students from Leo Hayes High School,” Anglophone School District West spokesperson Paul MacIntosh told the National Post.

He said the school administration took the incident very seriously and responded in an appropriate manner, which included calling on the local police force for support.

In a statement released Wednesday, the Fredericton Police Force said it was aware of the incident and its “Major Crime Unit is currently conducting an active investigation into the matter.”

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