Hate Crimes
Both men were leaving synagogues when a driver of a moving vehicle fired on them in separate incidents.
Authorities are still investigating if there is a connection and whether the attacks were solely motivated by antisemitism.
The district attorney said this is “another deplorable example where our Jewish community has been targeted for who they are and what they believe.”
NYPD and the Shomrim neighborhood watch group are investigating the beating.
“If I could do it again, I would do it again,” declared Waseem Awawdeh.
Of 194 assaults on Jews in the city since April 2018, only twice has the perpetrator been sentenced to prison, according to a new report.
Data from New York, Los Angeles and Miami is among that missing from the document.
Eric Adams said recent reforms are designed to protect criminals.
The suspect faces up to four years in prison for the violent attack.
Two days before killing Haddad, Mohamed Baha Dridi changed his Facebook profile photo, adding the text: “There is no other god than Allah, and Mohamed is his messenger.”
The 44-year-old victim was choked by an unidentified male suspect, who made anti-Semitic remarks while she waited on the platform.
Saadah Masoud, who is out on bail, “has a history of violence and of physically assaulting Israel supporters,” according to a watchdog group.
