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Manhattan DA Won’t Prosecute Woman Cursing And Assaulting Jewish Woman As Hate Crime, Report Says

Hank Berrien
Manhattan DA Won’t Prosecute Woman Cursing And Assaulting Jewish Woman As Hate Crime, Report Says
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On Thursday, according to the Israeli victim’s attorneys, the Manhattan District Attorney’s office announced, to the astonishment and consternation of the victim and her defenders, that the woman who assaulted her on a New York subway while yelling anti-Semitic curses and allegedly screaming “Allahu akbar!” would not be prosecuted for a hate crime, as the Washington Free Beacon reports.

Lihi Aharon, who immigrated to the United States from Israel in 2013, said she encountered a woman identified as Zarinah Ali, 38, when she boarded a subway train on her way home to Brooklyn after an induction ceremony at her school, The Borough of Manhattan Community College, in early December, as Fox News reported.

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