Hate Crimes
Police charged the 71-year-old with six offenses after months of community surveillance in the Australian city’s eastern suburbs.
Residents of the Pisgat Ze’ev neighborhood say bullets are striking homes and injuring bystanders, as police probe the incidents.
Prosecutors say a member of the outlawed group struck Sgt. Kate Evans with a sledgehammer during an Aug. 6 break-in at an Elbit Systems UK site.
“Violent, nihilistic, racist groups like these are an ongoing threat to the American people,” the U.S. attorney general stated.
Clift Seferlis, who also faces a $5.65 million fine, made “numerous threats” against Jewish institutions, per the Justice Department.
Samuel Benson Cooney, 34, is said to have signed a receipt with a swastika and directed a slur at a woman he thought was Jewish.
“Antisemitic threats and all threats made against the federally protected freedoms of our citizens will not be tolerated,” stated William Keyes, a U.S. attorney.
“New Yorkers will not tolerate hate-based violence,” stated Jay Clayton, U.S. attorney for the Southern District of New York.
“Just because it’s ‘quiet’ out there, that doesn’t mean we’re actually safe,” the rabbi of a Conservative congregation in the city told JNS.
The probation and time served “does not reflect the gravity of this hate-fueled crime,” the Anti-Defamation League told JNS.
Anthony Lambinus, who is in his upper 30s, is also accused of calling the septuagenarian a “Zionist pig.”
The “figures released just show what every British Jew already knows—antisemitic hate crimes in the U.K. remain at a historic high,” said the vice president of the Board of Deputies.
