Suspect in Jewish Columbia Student attack

A terrorist-supporting anti-Israel demonstrator was charged with the federal hate crime, the public prosecutor said on Wednesday, after he allegedly carried out three separate attacks on Jewish population in New York City, some students at Columbia University.

The 20 -year -old Tarek Bazroouk was imprisoned by judge Stewart Aaron after the prosecutors spoke his history of violent threats and intimidation. ”

In one of the three incidents, Bazrouk is accused of beating a Columbia student and stolen his Israeli flag while he was thrown anti-Semitic in an attack on December 9, the FBI said.

Bazroouk allegedly took part in another attack during another protest from Israel Hamas War on April 15, 2024, in which he kicked a man and told him he should “kill himself”. The state prosecutor said that Barzouk later wrote an SMS about the attack and wrote: “I started to step on the Zionist because they talked to the USA.”

Bazroouk was arrested by the NYPD and charged with a third attack from January 6th. Israel-Hamas War Protest on First Avenue and East 18^TH Street. The FBI said while he aimed and hit a pro-Israeli demonstrator there.

Bazroouk was not guilty of making hate crime, robbery and indictment for assault that were submitted by the Manhattan public prosecutor. His public defender Diane Akerman said that she had no statement on the past state charges or the newly submitted points of the federal government.

He was arrested by the FBI on Wednesday morning due to federal costs.

The prosecutors said Bazroouk once threatened a Jewish child in a city school.

“Although Bazroouk was arrested after each incident, he was supposedly undeterred and quickly returned to use violence to aim for Jews in New York City,” said the reigning US lawyer Jay Clayton in a statement.

The FBI recovered weapons when he was searched on Wednesday morning, according to a letter of prison dated May 7, which was written by the US public prosecutor. Brass Knuckles, an hunting knife, an Airsoft weapon, real balls and hundreds of thousands of dollars in cash were said to be recovered from his apartment in Manhattan.

Some photos allegedly showed him that he is wearing a green headband, “usually worn by the Hamas terrorists,” wrote the public prosecutor.

Christopher Raia, director of FBI New York, said that Bazroouk had “carried out physical attacks and at the same time demonstrated a pattern of the support of anti -Semitic terrorist organizations”.

A search for his cell phone also discovered writings to support Hamas and the Hisbollah, and he called himself a “hater of Jews,” said prosecutor.

One of his attacks caused the attention of governor Kathy Hochul, who went on social media in December: “I am outraged that an @Columbia student was exposed to an anti-Semitic attack yesterday.

Bazroouk was charged with three cases of federal hate crimes, which, if it has been convicted, can lead up to 10 years in the federal prison. Barzouk also has about 10 arrests in previous arrests, some with regard to drug trafficking. His lawyer also refused to answer questions about the past of the past.

Some Jewish online groups claim that Bazroouk is a supporter of the protest group “in our lives”. The “Wol” group on its website says that it stood against Israel and calls it “the Zionist settler colonial project”. The group said that it supports “the liberation of Palestine by all means” and demands those “in the United States that oppose the violence of the US Empire at home and abroad”.