NY woman charged with hate crime for attacking Israeli college student

Zarinah Ali, 38, was filmed using anti-Semitic epithets while assaulting Lihi Aharon in the subway in December

By Marcy Oster 10 March 2020, 8:53 am

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A woman, identified by the New York Police Department as Zarinah Ali, rants against Jews at a subway station in New York on December 12, 2019. (Screen capture: YouTube)

JTA — A woman who is seen on video verbally and physically attacking an Israeli college student on the New York City subway has been indicted.

In the video Zarinah Ali, 38, uses anti-Semitic epithets including “You f***in’ nasty a** Jews” and “You stinking a** Jew” while assaulting Lihi Aharon in December. A friend of Aharon’s recorded the attack.

Aharon was sitting next to an ultra-Orthodox man on the subway and Ali shouted epithets at him as well.

“She was yelling at him, shouting at him, ‘Allahu Akbar’ [God is most great] and ‘Allah will kill you,’ ‘nasty Jews,’ she was citing clauses from the Quran and ‘when you see a Jew you got to kill him’ and she used a lot of profanity,” Aharon told Fox News.

She also said Ali smacked a cellphone out of her hand when Aharon tried to record the altercation, then grabbed and pulled on Aharon’s face and scratched her until she bled.