JEWS FOR JUSTICE

JEWS FOR JUSTICE

Published: 2021-05-28

By Fox News: A Brooklyn man accused of beating a Jewish man in the hate attack in Midtown said from his jail cell that he would "do it again," prosecutors said Saturday. Wasim Awawdeh, 23, was held on $ 10,000 bail on Thursday in an assault 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 like to do it again,” he said to one of his jailers, according to prosecutors at Awawdeh on Saturday indictments in Manhattan Criminal Court. "I have no problem doing it again." The attack was unprovoked, prosecutors said, who told Judge Catherine Pack that Borgen was walking near Broadway and West 49th Street when Avaudeh "jumped on him and attacked him." Awawdeh, who has at least one open case in Brooklyn for allegedly speeding and running a red light in March, was charged with assault as a hate crime, gang assault, threatening, aggravated harassment as a hate crime, and criminal gun ownership, police said. The Midtown attack was a hate crime, Paek said, Manhattan's assistant district attorney, adding that Awawdeh called Borgen a "dirty Jew" and said, "F-k Israel, Hamas will kill you all."