Zarinah Ali is finally being charged with a hate crime, after the DA initially declined to do so. It’s amazing that this is being considered even a possible hate crime in de Blasio’s New York; maybe, after so many antisemitic attacks in the city, he is trying to restore his image. He needn’t worry: New York City is a one-party state.
“New Jersey woman who went on anti-Semitic tirade against Israeli college student indicted on hate crime,” by Morgan Phillips, Fox News, March 4, 2020:
Israeli student records an anti-Semitic rant on a New York subway by a passenger allegedly annoyed for being asked to move her bags.
A Manhattan grand jury indicted a woman accused of perpetrating an anti-Semitic attack on a New York City subway in December with a hate crime, the victim’s attorneys confirmed to Fox News.
While riding a subway in December, Lihi Aharan, an Israeli college student, and another orthodox Jewish man were subjected to a “disturbing” foul-mouth anti-Semitic tirade and Aharan was physically attacked.
The Manhattan district attorney originally was “very resistant” to prosecute the charges as a hate crime, but after media reports and public outrage, the DA switched course, Aharon’s lawyer Kenneth Belkin, with the Spodek Law Group, told Fox News. Belkin and The Lawfare Project partnered to provide Aharan pro bono representation….
“I still bear the physical and emotional scars from my attack, and I expect they will be with me for many years to come. Today, at least I can feel satisfied that my attacker will be held responsible for her actions and I hope that my experience may help bring this type of hatred to light,” Aharan said in a statement.
Aharan told Fox News she had asked Zarinah Ali, 38, to move her belongings because she was occupying three seats on a “full” train, but she refused. A seat across from Ali opened up and Aharan sat down.
“I happened to sit next to a visibly Orthodox Jewish man,” Aharon told Fox News. “He had a beard and a yarmulke and he turned out also to be an Israeli.”
“She was yelling at him, shouting at him, ‘Allahu Akbar’ [God is most great] and ‘Allah will kill you,’ ‘nasty Jews,’ she was citing clauses from the Koran and ‘when you see a Jew you got to kill him’ and she used a lot of profanity.”
She added, “I was talking Hebrew so she knew I was Jewish.”
In the video, Ali can be heard spouting phrases including, “You f—in nasty a– Jews” and “You stinking a— Jew.”
“After a few minutes she stood up and smacked my phone, she came over and smacked my phone down, and I told my friend, ‘Record this,’ I’m telling her in Hebrew, ‘Record this’ and my friend started recording and then she smacked my friend’s phone out of her hands twice,” Aharon told Fox News.
“Then she came to me, she ran to me and pointed on my face and then she was grabbing my face, like she was trying to pull my face off and she scratched me so hard and my face started bleeding.”
Aharon said she hit the emergency button on the subway and asked people to call 911.
Police arrested Ali that night and charged her with assault….