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| Israeli student victim of anti-Semitic attack on NY subway | ||
| 2019-12-18 | ||
An Israeli student said she was recently attacked on the New York City subway by a woman hurling anti-Semitic at a Jewish passenger. In a video released Monday, Lihi Aharon recalled boarding the subway in Manhattan and encountering a woman whose possessions were on the nearby seats, which she asked her to move. "No. Nobody sits here," she quoted the woman, who was identified by the New York Police Department as Zarinah Ali, as saying. Aharon said she then sat down across from Ali next to a Jewish man, who had a beard and was wearing a kippa. "As soon as I sat that woman started cursing and yelling at him about him being a Jew and ’ She then took out at her phone and began recording Ali, footage of which was included in the video. "You can record everything you want to sell. Ali then began yelling and cursing at her, according to Aharon, before knocking the phone from her hand. Aharon said she then asked a friend to start recording, but Ali also slapped her friend’s phone away. "All of a sudden she grabbed my face. It happened very, very fast so I decided, it’s not happening today and I had to fight back," she said. "Eventually, that lady found herself outside on the subway station on the floor with all her belongings." In the subway station, Aharon said she quickly contacted police and was told by passersby she was bleeding. The video then cuts to footage of Ali sitting on the stairs and cursing as a police officer stands in front of her. "You fucking stinkin’ ass Jew," the woman says. "You ain’t even a Jew, you white." Aharon also said the Jewish man she sat next to on the train told her the woman also praised the deadly shooting last week at a kosher supermarket in Jersey City and that it was a shame it was not all Jews who were killed. "He said that nobody did nothing," Aharon said. "Please, talk, do not be afraid to step up and shut people up because there is no place, not in New York or in any other place on earth, for hatred." She then pointed to a scar on her face apparently from the attack, saying she wore it "proudly." "Do not be afraid to fight and return the fight," Aharon said. A NYPD spokesperson said in a statement that Ali, a 38-year-old from South Orange, New Jersey, was arrested over the December 12 incident and charged with assault for scratching Aharon’s face.
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| Posted by:trailing wife |
| #12 There should be a Kidon like group, or at least contracted talent to reach out and off these perpetrators in gang-like hits. The only deterrent most easily understood is the promise of death. |
| Posted by: Dron66046 2019-12-18 22:43 |
| #11 NYT: "Racist Israeli attacks an innocent African American women"? |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2019-12-18 17:59 |
| #10 New York City Subway Man-hate'n Zarinah Ali Unexpected? |
| Posted by: Skidmark 2019-12-18 17:49 |
| #9 COL Live has more here. A black woman has been arrested by police after leading an anti-Semitic attack on the New York Subway 2 train by in Manhattan. Her first target was Yosef Gurevitch, a Lubavitcher Chossid from Crown Heights who runs a Judaica store in Great Neck, NY. “She was calling out anti-Semitic words, Allah Akbar and slurs against Jews such as the reason for the Jersey City shooting was because Jews were money hungry,” Gurevitch said. The Chossid said he didn’t respond to her, and other subway riders remained silent too, “because she looked to me drunk or stoned.” At the next stop by TriBeCa, 2 young Israeli women boarded the train and headed over to the only empty seats – near the verbally abusive woman. ...Aharon began filming the incident which caught the women’s attention. Things quickly escalated and the woman got up and smacked the phone out of Aharon’s hands and began grabbing and striking at her face. Aharon fought back and knocked the woman down, refusing to be physically beaten, according to a report. The woman lunged herself back at Lihi and the fight continued until they both found each other outside of the train as the doors opened. “No one did anything. No words. No Actions. Just dozens of people watching as if they were the audience of a TV show,” said Jewish activist Rudy Rochman, who publicized the incident. |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2019-12-18 17:43 |
| #8 Binaca and a cigarette lighter works every time for me. |
| Posted by: gorb 2019-12-18 16:38 |
| #7 Hate crime that will be local news unless reversed colours |
| Posted by: Bright Pebbles 2019-12-18 16:04 |
| #6 I like how you think, Warthog. |
| Posted by: Mullah Richard 2019-12-18 15:23 |
| #5 Bear spray |
| Posted by: Warthog 2019-12-18 14:17 |
| #4 Wasp spray, in the face. |
| Posted by: Gomez Flugum6633 2019-12-18 12:12 |
| #3 Pepper spray |
| Posted by: Lex 2019-12-18 12:10 |
| #2 If guns are outlawed in NY trains, carry a taser ? People have got to fight back. This will just escalate if nobody curb stomps these people every once in a while. |
| Posted by: Dron66046 2019-12-18 12:04 |
| #1 Battery is illegal touching. Assault means violent touching (hitting or scratching) |
| Posted by: Frank G 2019-12-18 10:35 |