CAIR: Police investigate after pro-Israel counter-protesters assault two women in NYC – USA Today
“Every community, religious or political leader who cares about the safety of residents and freedom and justice in our city, state and nation must speak out strongly against this apparently racist attack by a pro-Israel mob,” Afaf Nasher, the executive director of the New York chapter of CAIR, said in a statement. “If a huge mob of men surrounding a woman and threatening her security fails to shake our conscience, then we are a lost people.”
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CAIR: Protests Against Israeli Official Heat Up Outside Synagogue in Brooklyn – The New York Times
But the crowd began to chant “death to Arabs” in Hebrew and followed the woman and the police officer who was escorting her to safety, the video shows. Many also shouted racist and sexist profanities as others shoved her. At least one hurled an orange construction cone at the woman’s head before the officer was able to put her in a police vehicle, the footage shows.
Edward Ahmed Mitchell, the deputy director of the national Council on American-Islamic Relations, deplored the incident in a statement.
“We strongly condemn the violent mob of pro-Israel racists who chased and attacked a woman down a New York City street,” Mr. Mitchell said.
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