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Waseem Awadeh battered Joe Borgen with his metal crutch
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by Daniel Greenfield in Sultan Knish 24 July'23
In May 2021, Joseph Borgen was
violently assaulted by a Muslim mob while walking down the street in
midtown Manhattan in the vicinity of an anti-Israel rally. The Jewish
man was kicked, punched, pepper sprayed, beaten with a metal object, and
ended up in the hospital.
Borgen
was taunted as a “dirty Jew” and the assault was caught on video. “They
were kicking me in my ribs, my stomach,” he described.
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Beaten-up N.Y'er, Joe Borgen
(Photo: Canary Mission)
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Waseem Awawdeh,
the best known of the attackers, was out two days later. Even after
Awawdeh reportedly told prison guards, “If I could do it again, I would
do it again”, Manhattan DA Alvin Bragg offered him a plea deal of only
six months in prison.
After public outrage, including protests and
condemnations by elected officials, it was raised to eighteen months.
Faisal Elezzi, another of the attackers, got off with probation and an obligation to complete “anti-bias programming”.
In Los Angeles that same month, a
pro-terrorist Muslim convoy was driving down the street near the Jewish
neighborhood of Fairfax, and began harassing outdoor diners at the Sushi Fumi restaurant. Members of the Muslim mob waved a PLO terror flag, demanded to
know who at the restaurant was Jewish, and witnesses said chanted,
“death to the Jews” and “free Palestine”.
The Muslim attackers
reportedly punched, kicked, threw bottles and pepper sprayed their
targets - who were members of the Persian Jewish community who had fled
Islamic violence in Iran. An Armenian-Christian, Mr. Mher Hagopian, who dined with the Jews, attempted to fight the antisemites off, but was overwhelved by members of the Palestinian gang.
Just one Muslim, Samer Jayylusi, and an accompanying Latino, Xavier Pabon, got arrested and were summarily released on bail. Two years later, this July, Judge Laura Priver recently sentenced the two to probation and ordered to visit a Holocaust museum.
The assaults in Manhattan and Los
Angeles went viral. Videos of Muslim mobs attacking Jews made their way
around the country and the world. They ended up appearing in national
news stories. And yet most of those suspects got off with a slap on the
wrist and diversity training.
“We take these cases
extraordinarily seriously. That sort of hate has no place in Manhattan,”
Manhattan DA Alvin Bragg had claimed.
“A hate crime is a crime
against all of us,” Los Angeles DA George Gascon had promised, referring
to the case. “My office is committed to doing all we can to make Los
Angeles County a place where our diversity is embraced and protected.”
Both
district attorneys have been linked to the pro-crime progressive
prosecutor networks championed by George Soros as well as other leftist
billionaires. And their promises of justice evaporated into consequences
that could barely qualify as a slap on the wrist.
If the four defendants sentenced
so far in these four cases, whose sentences are known, three received
probation and anti-bias classes. 75% of the perpetrators in these Muslim
mobs may have spent only a few days in prison and have walked away with
nothing except some classes.
The message that has been sent by
DA Alvin Bragg, DA George Gascon and Judge Laura Priver of the
California Superior Court is that Muslim attacks on Jews will go
unpunished.
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Mher Hagopian addresses L.A.'s Sinai Temple accompanied by Rabbis David Wolpe and Nicole Guzman, 2021 (photo courtesy: Ryan Torok, Jewish Journal of L.A.)
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According to reports,
Judge Priver thought that “counseling and Museum of Tolerance program
was a better solution than sending the two to state prison as the
prosecution had requested.”
While these two Muslim mob attacks on
Jews caught the attention of the world, there have been individual
assaults that have gone unnoticed and mostly unpunished.
