Suleiman Othman receives only two month sentence after pleading guilty to brutal antisemitic attack 

Suleiman Othman has received a two month sentence after pleading guilty to a violent antisemitic assault.

The victim, Blake Zavadsky, and his friend were waiting for a shop to open in Brooklyn on 26th December 2021 before Mr Othman called them “dirty Jews” and demanded that Mr Zavadsky remove his sweater bearing the emblem of the Israel Defence Forces. Mr Othman then punched Mr Zavadsky several times and poured coffee on the sweater.

Mr Othman reportedly turned himself in to police two weeks after the attack took place, pleading guilty to attempted assault as a hate crime, for which he was sentenced to sixty days in jail, followed by three years’ probation.

According to the FBI, over 60 percent of hate crimes against a religious minority are motivated by antisemitism.

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