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Former CAIR employee charged after wild antisemitic rant in New York went viral
Zev Stub is the Times of Israel's Diaspora Affairs correspondent.
A former employee of the Council of American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) has been charged with a hate crime after an antisemitic rant in a New York building went viral online.
Noora Shalash was been charged with aggravated harassment, a second-degree hate crime, after she unleashed a vicious, profanity-laced rant against a Jewish man.
“Fuck the Jews, I love Jesus,” she yelled. “I demand Jihad! I want ISIS to kill all of you! I am conspiring with Hamas, Palestinian Jihad and with ISIS, I am conspiring with them!”
The incident was filmed by Seth Bell, the Jewish man at whom the Thursday afternoon tirade was unleashed, the New York Post reports. Shalash also hit Bell, the report said.
She is expected to be arraigned in Manhattan Criminal Court later Saturday, the report says.
Following the incident, CAIR disassociated itself from Shalash. “This person has not worked with our CAIR-KY chapter in five years,” the organization posted on X. “She has no role at our civil rights group. We condemn and reject the antisemitic comments in the video, just as we condemn and reject anti-Palestinian racism and anti-Muslim hate you regularly spew.”
“I demand Jihad, I want ISIS to kill all of you.”
Noora Shalash, Director of Government Affairs for CAIR-Kentucky. pic.twitter.com/jZz1Zc8teO
— Ian Miles Cheong (@stillgray) February 7, 2025
