Las Vegas Strip Site of Possible Hate Crime Against Jewish Tourist, Suffers Head Injuries

A 67-year-old Jewish piece was shoved to the sidewalk on the Las Vegas Strip nigh the Park MGM earlier this week. He suffered a noticeable gash on his head, and i news report said he had a “bloody head wounding & concussion.”

Paul Lebowitz’s family line reported Monday’s incident to Las Vegas Metro police. It was classified as a showcase of battery, and Lebowitz wants it investigated as an anti-Semitic hatred crime, KVVU, a local TV station, reported.

Lebowitz is a paramedical inward New York who was visiting The Strip as a tourer with his family. He began talking to a endorsement man inwards a coffee tree shop close the Park MGM Las Vegas.

The 2 men later walked on the pavement out of doors of Eataly market place nigh the hotel.

Thrown To Ground

“We talked virtually Israel-Palestine until he said, ‘The Jews are not going to exist.’ And I said, ‘I’m a proud Jew,’” Lebowitz told KVVU.

That’s when it got violent,” Lebowitz added. “He yells out, ‘Baby killers.’ Puts his paw to my face and throws me to the ground.”

“I cut down back. I smacked my head,” Lebowitz told the TV station.

Lebowitz recalled that the assailant was often taller than him. The violence was captured on surveillance video.

Lebowitz was wearing a Judaic Star of St. David around his cervix during the incident. “He’s anti-Jewish. It’s a hate offence to me,” Lebowitz said.

In recent weeks, from Los Angeles to New House of York City, local police received reports on Jews existence violently attacked inward the US. There was also scathe to Jewish-owned businesses inward the US.

“It may have got been an marooned incident here inward Las Vegas, but it’s natural event in New York, Los Angeles, Cleveland, and Boston,” Lebowitz told KVVU. “It has to stop.”

Lebowitz said the assault will non hold him from reverting to Las Vegas.

Word of the assault also was picked upwards past Dov Hikind (D), a former New York State assemblyman who is the founding father of a grouping called Americans Against Antisemitism.

On Wednesday, Hikind tweeted that Lebowitz suffered “A bloody chief wounding & concussion” from the attack.

The US incidents come in with the recent infringe 'tween State of Israel and the Palestinians, as advantageously as between State of Israel and the Hamas terrorist chemical group based inwards Gaza. Islamic Resistance Movement terrorists pounded Sion with over 4,000 rockets. Zion responded with a bombardment against Islamic Resistance Movement strategical locations inwards Gaza.

Sheldon Adelson Subject of Social Media Post

In another incident, recently, a unexampled stave member of the Associated Press, identified as Emily Wilder, was fired from the bureau inwards Phoenix, Ariz. after it came to lightness she had posted on social media anti-Israel, and pro-Palestinian messages.

While inwards college, Samuel Wilder also allegedly posted that Sheldon Adelson, the later(a) gambling casino mogul who was a major booster of State of Israel and US Republican River causes, was a “naked mole rat-looking billionaire.”