Jewish man arrested for swastikas, anti-Semitic calls

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NEW YORK | Mon Jan 16, 2012 6:17pm EST

NEW YORK (Reuters) - A Jewish man was under arrest on hate-crime charges on Monday, accused of making anti-Semitic telephone calls to his mother and other elderly women and putting swastikas on apartment doors, police said.

A family business dispute drove David Haddad, 56, of Manhattan, who is Jewish, to make threatening phone calls to his mother, 80, and two other women, ages 87 and 78, a police source said.

"He threatened to kill the other individual on the phone as well as her relatives," said a police spokesman. "He said basically that all Jews should die and go to hell."

Haddad, who was charged with aggravated harassment as a hate crime, also was accused of taping notes with anti-Semitic symbols including swastikas on five apartment doors and in the hallway of a building in the Chelsea neighborhood of Manhattan.

Haddad lives in Chelsea but police declined to say whether he targeted his own building.

(Reporting by Barbara Goldberg; Editing by Ellen Wulfhorst)
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RichardGC wrote:
This idiot is an extreme case but WAY too many people of all groups want to “play the victim.” Fight it! Regardless of who we are, when we are victims of bigoted remarks we should fight back ourselves, not call the cops. We should power wash hateful graffiti and catch the vandal when he repaints it. Graffiti should be punished as property damage regardless of its content. Any government with enough power to protect our feelings from bigoted remarks or writing is incompatible with freedom.

Jan 17, 2012 11:44am EST  --  Report as abuse
robertsgt40 wrote:
Imagine my shock…or the lack thereof

Jan 17, 2012 4:20pm EST  --  Report as abuse
robertsgt40 wrote:
Does this mean he’s an anti-semite? Paging Mr Foxman to the courtesy phone

Jan 17, 2012 4:22pm EST  --  Report as abuse
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