'Anti-Zionist' Turns Himself In to Police After Subway Stunt

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Have you seen this video? A large group of "anti-Zionist" protesters crowded into a subway car in New York City earlier this month. One person told any Zionists on the train to identify themselves and then get off while the rest of the crowd chanted after him.

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Unfortunately for the creep behind this, what he did is a crime. A few days later the police released a photo of the chant leader asking for tips as to his identity.

They must have gotten some tips because today 24-year-old Anas Saleh turned himself in to police.

Anas Saleh turned himself in on Wednesday morning at the New York Police Department's Transit District 2, Fox News Digital has learned. 

Saleh is being charged via a criminal complaint with coercion after harassing strangers on a city subway.

Saleh was given a desk appearance ticket specifying that he needed to appear in court next Monday. Then he was released and his release turned into a circus. Just look at these pathetic goons. Toward the end of this clip they are clearly blocking the subway exit so no one with cameras can get through.

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I'm really not sure what the point of this was given that Anas Saleh's photo has already been spread everywhere by the police. If he was trying to keep this from getting back to his employer, he's probably too late.

Saleh, who is believed to have worked as a research tech at Weill Cornell Medicine’s Rhee Lab, was quickly outed as the alleged perp on social media, with Jewish activist groups also circulating his image on social media in a bid to track him down.

The school’s dean, Robert Harrington, addressed the antisemitic subway saga in a letter fired off to Cornell employees – but stopped short of mentioning Saleh by name or his arrest.

“We condemn antisemitism in the strongest possible terms. Hate speech or actions of any kind, whether anti-Semitic or Islamophobic, are not tolerated by our community,” Harrington said in the statement Wednesday.

But in case you're tempted to feel even a little sympathy for Anas Saleh, keep in mind what he was doing on that subway train earlier this month.

Before the incident, the protesters had gathered at Union Square. Within Our Lifetime had declared a “Day of Rage” in the city that featured stops at multiple locations. At Union Square, demonstrators carried a sign that said “Long live Oct. 7,” bore symbols associated with terror groups, and sparred with pro-Israel counter-protesters...

When Saleh allegedly called to target “Zionists,” the train was near the Fulton St. subway station, between Union Square and the Nova exhibit, police said.

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The protest at the Nova exhibit was especially disgusting

Horror gripped Menashe Manzuri as he watched on Monday as an anti-Israel mob swarm the Manhattan exhibit memorial for the Oct. 7 terror attacks and viciously echo the chants of terrorists who murdered his two daughters.

“I cannot find the right words how I felt when someone is shouting and supporting the people who murder your daughters,” Manzuri said Tuesday...

The protest Monday outside Nova Music Festival Exhibition on Wall Street rattled exhibit goers, including survivors of the attack on the festival and family members of victims...

At least four Oct. 7 survivors huddled at the exhibit “in a panic” as protesters mobbed outside, lit flares and chanted “Long live in the Intifada.”

So zero sympathy for these militant creeps. Saleh deserves whatever the judge can throw at him.

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John Stossel 8:30 AM | December 22, 2024
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