[My face was on fire.' Kippa-wearing Jewish man, 29,
tells how he was maced, kicked and
pummeled by mob of pro-Palestinian men
who
shouted 'go back to Israel,
Hamas is going to kill you'
as suspect is charged with hate crimes]
[Joseph Borgen, 29, was heading to a pro-Israel rally
Thursday when he was assaulted by
a gang of pro-Palestinian demonstrators in Times Square
The Jewish accountant, who lives
on the Upper East Side, said he had been
wearing a kippa when a man with a
black bandana started chasing him
'The next thing I knew I was surrounded
by a whole crowd of people who proceeded
to physically attack me,' he told DailyMail.com on Friday
Video of the assault showed Borgen was
left defenseless as he was kicked, punched, and
beaten with crutches and flag poles by a mob
of eight to 10 people
Borgen recalled hearing
them shout,
'You filthy Jew',
'We're going to *********g kill you',
'Go back to Israel' and 'Hamas is going to kill you,'
as he lay on the ground
'After I wound up on the ground,
I was literally just in a fetal position,
trying to guard my head and face,
literally just trying to make it
out of their alive,' he said
Borgen was taken to Bellevue Hospital
where he was treated for injuries he sustained
all over his body and chemical irritation
from being maced in the face
NYPD on Friday identified 23-year-old
Waseem Awawdeh as the suspect who
seen using a crutch to beat Borgen.
He has been charged with hate crimes]
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...es-Square.html
Worse in the USA.
[On Friday, the NYPD identified 23-year-old
Waseem Awawdah as one of the suspects in the attack]