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A Jewish man who was beaten by a mob in a hate attack in Midtown told a courtroom Tuesday he couldn’t “fathom” why his attacker got a plea deal from the Manhattan District Attorney’s Office — as the assailant was handed an 18-month prison term. Joseph Borgen, 31, delivered a fiery victim impact statement at the Manhattan Supreme Court sentencing of Waseem Awawdeh, 24, for attacking Borgen during a clash between Israel and Palestine supporters on May, 20, 2021. “Why is he getting a break? I really can’t fathom why he’s getting a deal. Me, personally, I wanted to go...

Brooklyn Man Facing Hate Crime Charges After Allegedly Destroying Church’s Crucifix, Setting Fire To Yeshiva, Synagogue Syndicated Local – CBS New York NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) — A Brooklyn man is facing hate crime charges after he allegedly destroyed a crucifix and burned an American flag at church and later set fire to a yeshiva and synagogue. Ali Alaheri, 29, was charged with criminal mischief as a hate crime. Police said Alaheri knocked down and destroyed a large crucifix statue outside St. Athanasius Church in Bensonhurst.

The Brooklyn man accused of beating a Jewish man in a hate attack in Midtown proclaimed from his jail cell that he would “do it again,” prosecutors said on Saturday. Waseem Awawdeh, 23, was held on $10,000 bail in the Thursday attack, in which he is accused of beating Joseph Borgen, 29, with crutches and punching, kicking and pepper-spraying him. “If I could do it again, I would do it again,” he told one of his jailers, according to a prosecutor at Awawdeh’s Saturday arraignment in Manhattan Criminal Court. “I have no problem doing it again.” The attack was unprovoked,...