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NYC: Muslim screaming “Allahu akbar” attacks Jewish woman on subway, DA declines to prosecute as hate crime

Jan 2, 2020 3:00 pm By Robert Spencer

Why is there a spate of anti-Semitic in New York City these days? One reason is because authorities are resolutely looking the other way and protecting the perpetrators.

“Manhattan DA Declines to Prosecute Anti-Semitic Attack as Hate Crime,” by Adam Kredo, Washington Free Beacon, January 2, 2020:

The Manhattan district attorney’s office has declined to prosecute a recent anti-Semitic attack on a Jewish subway passenger as a hate crime, according to lawyers representing the victim.

Lihi Aharon, an Israeli student riding the New York City subway in December, was attacked by another passenger who cursed at her and yelled “Allahu akbar!” While the attack on Aharon seemed to be motivated by anti-Semitic animus, the Manhattan DA informed lawyers representing Aharon on Thursday that it would not prosecute the case as a hate crime.

The incident is one of several recent anti-Semitic attacks around New York City that have sparked a nationwide conversation about the resurgence of anti-Semitism in America….

Aharon and a Jewish man she was riding with were attacked after another passenger heard them conversing in Hebrew and saw the man was wearing a yarmulke, according to the victim.

“As soon as I sat, that woman started cursing and yelling at him about him being a Jew and ‘Allahu akbar’ and how Allah will end us all,” Aharon said in a video she posted online following the attack.

The Manhattan DA decided not to prosecute the attack as a hate crime, or to present the case to a grand jury to decide whether it meets the legal threshold for a hate crime.

Aharon expressed surprise about the decision, particularly in light of similar attacks in the city.

“I was physically attacked and verbally assaulted for being a Jew,” Aharon said in a statement provided to the Free Beacon. “I was called a ‘nasty Jew.’ I was assaulted. And I am one of the lucky ones. So many people in my position, who have faced Jew hatred and anti-Semitic violence, have suffered far worse than I have.”…

Photo by Americasroof – Own work, CC BY 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=6413064

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  1. Gabe King says

    Jan 2, 2020 at 3:05 pm

    Very Liberal !

  2. Tara says

    Jan 2, 2020 at 3:08 pm

    Persecution of Jews is the barometer for demonic activity.

  3. Huh!?! says

    Jan 2, 2020 at 3:27 pm

    So what is going to happen. The islamist that did the attack is not guilty by reason of mental illness. This person will be assigned a room to watch puppies and kitties playing streamed in on the internet. This person will also be treated to cupcakes and pizza as part of the physiological treatment to make this person a good citizen.

    New York city is turning into pre- Nazi Berlin. Ignoring this is not going to make it go away. This is not a case of assault and battery. The underlying hate of the religion of peace makes this much more sinister. This is going to increase.

    The mayor of NYC and governor of NY need to be voted out of office. Replaced with brave leaders that will face this directly.

    • Mickey says

      Jan 2, 2020 at 8:27 pm

      If you haven’t noticed, Islamists ARE MENTALLY ILL. Look at their beliefs and culture. Look at their disgusting behavior towards raping women & children and their hate for the white man. Yet they are here in our country destroying our traditions and culture for their own. After years of fighting for women and children and Gays, now we have gone back to the Dark Ages.

    • Neil Schmidt says

      Jan 3, 2020 at 8:50 am

      Muslims are evil, not “mentally ill.” And….DeBlasio and Cuomo won’t be voted out of office because they are supported by too many of their own kind who voted them into office in the first place.

  4. Shirley Ann says

    Jan 2, 2020 at 3:29 pm

    When the US STATE DEPT. gave the OK to import Muslim Savages into our Country, the STATE DEPT. also gave the OK to MUSLIMS’ CULTURE OF HATE & DEATH. NYC, Under the Rule of El Commio Del Blasio, has become a SANCTUARY, where Muslims are NEVER,EVER Charged with a HATE CRIME. A PINCH ON A muslim’s Derrière & a Wink from the NYC DA is usually the Only Punishment, the Mayor & DA will Allow.

  5. keith says

    Jan 2, 2020 at 4:52 pm

    Let me see if I get this right,,,, a muslim is asked to remove face covering for security reasons, hate crime.
    A jew is physically assaulted by someone who screams threats and yells Aloha Snackbar,,,no hate crime.
    Who’d of thunk it!

    • gravenimage says

      Jan 2, 2020 at 7:53 pm

      +1

  6. Dan says

    Jan 2, 2020 at 5:05 pm

    America soon will look like France Germany UK Canada Belgium etc etc etc

  7. Samuel Green says

    Jan 2, 2020 at 6:06 pm

    Obviously this District Attorney must be related to that half with DA that decided not o prosecute Jussie Smollett, even though the evidence was indisputable.

    This is outrageous.

  8. bernie says

    Jan 2, 2020 at 7:41 pm

    If it had been the other way around (for example, if a non-Muslim had heard that Muslim woman speaking Arabic with someone, or had heard her having a conversation with another person indicating that they were both Muslims), and the non-Muslim had starting calling them “dirty Muzzies” or “sandni**ers” or similar hateful slurs), you can bet that the non-Muslim would have been charged with a hate crime!

    • Battle says

      Jan 2, 2020 at 9:45 pm

      bernie: +100

  9. gravenimage says

    Jan 2, 2020 at 7:51 pm

    NYC: Muslim screaming “Allahu akbar” attacks Jewish woman on subway, DA declines to prosecute as hate crime
    ………………..

    The Muslim assailant\ specifically said that he was attacking her for being a Jew. So how can the DA justify *not* pursuing this as a hate crime?

    • eduardo odraude says

      Jan 2, 2020 at 9:37 pm

      Good question. Perhaps a few factors involved. It seems no physical injuries were sustained, and the attack may have been largely verbal. And maybe the attacker pretended to the police to be remorseful afterwards. And the police preferred to let the perpetrator off easy, since that’s the safer, easier path when dealing with the Umma, which is run by a global mafia with tens of millions of “godfathers.”

      • gravenimage says

        Jan 2, 2020 at 9:42 pm

        I certainly agree with the last. Eduardo.

    • Joe says

      Jan 3, 2020 at 8:12 am

      Apparently hate crimes are reserved for other demographics.

      • Rufolino says

        Jan 3, 2020 at 10:23 am

        Even the Pope is allowed to slap a woman.

  10. eduardo odraude says

    Jan 2, 2020 at 9:29 pm

    Religious Jews often understand quite well that importing tons of immigrant Muslims will create an atmosphere hostile and increasingly barbaric toward Jews. Liberal Jews often barely begin to suspect it. Eventually they’ll get it, after they get mugged by reality enough — but by then it might be a bit too late to do anything.

  11. RCCA says

    Jan 2, 2020 at 9:37 pm

    I am waiting for some leader in the black community to publicly address this scourge of violence and hatred towards Jews from blacks. Sharpton, Obama, Jessie Jackson, even Kamala Harris or Cory Booker, or John Lewis — what does he have to lose? Dead silence.

    • gravenimage says

      Jan 2, 2020 at 9:41 pm

      True, RCCA.

    • Carol the 1st says

      Jan 7, 2020 at 9:20 pm

      Losers looking for illusory serenity, support plus the odd free meal will always grab straws such as the Religion of Pieces, but to hear that black antisemitism is growing has surprised me (then again I never waste time keeping up with what Sharpton and his ilk are spouting).

      I suppose everyone here has heard that The Guardian Angels in NYC are beginning to address the problem? Unlike muslim ‘patrols’, however, they don’t initiate unwarranted physicality – but they *will* handle it:
      Guardian Angels Patrolling Jewish Neighborhoods In NYC For First Time Since 1991

  12. Marmeladov says

    Jan 3, 2020 at 2:09 pm

    I am a comic book geek… for the longest time I used to thing of NYC as Gotham… I was wrong. Gotham is ran by crim, not by hate.
    NYC is more like the Europe of the 1936 – 1941 era. You sensed to war and the violence and the hatred in the air, you knew the camps were being built, you felt uneasy being a Jew… yet you kept hoping it will pass. It didn’t. Looks like we are back on the same track now…

  13. OLD GUY says

    Jan 3, 2020 at 5:30 pm

    It won’t go away if we do not address the issue of islam’s hatred towards all other religions. If we want and love are freedom we have to stop islam as an ideology that is leading the muslim world down a path to our and their destruction. The longer we put off the inevitable the more who will die. The current leadership in muslim countries will never accept the west and our freedom, the only way out of this is our surrender to islam or the destruction of islam.

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