Antisemitic attacker sentenced to 2 years in prison for 2021 beating of Jewish man in Times Square

The Manhattan district attorney says Salem Seleiman, 30, has been sentenced to two years in prison for the beating of Joey Borgen, a Jewish man, in 2021.

Borgen was attacked in Times Square, near an anti-Israel rally held during the 2021 conflict between Israel and Gaza terror groups. Borgen was going to a pro-Israel counter-protest when he was assaulted by six attackers.

The violent beating, caught on video, became a major hate crime case in New York.

Seleiman, the last of the six attackers to be sentenced, pleaded guilty to assault in the second degree and assault in the third degree as a hate crime in September.

“Salem Seleiman took part in the repugnant and bias-motivated assault of a Jewish man who was peacefully attending a rally,” Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg says in a statement. “The victim was targeted based on his religion and did nothing to warrant physical violence.

The statement says that Borgen was thrown to the ground, punched, hit with a crutch, pepper-sprayed, and kicked by the group of attackers, who mocked him as a “filthy Jew” and “dirty Jew.”

Borgen moved to Israel earlier this year.

Seleiman had fled New York and was arrested in Florida in May, then extradited to New York City for prosecution.

Jews are targeted in hate crimes in New York City far more than any other group.