Ahmad R Musa

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May 20, 2021 - Attacking and Spitting at Diners

Musa assaulted [00:00:01] and spat at diners at a Manhattan restaurant when he jumped over a barrier and joined other protesters who also verbally assaulted and spat at the diners. He committed these actions at night while joining a mob of anti-Israel protesters who had carried out a violent protest that same day in Times Square. 

Musa jumped [00:00:01] over a barrier separating the restaurant from the sidewalk. He could be seen doing this in a Twitter video posted the night of the attack. He wore a keffiyeh-patterned headband, dark pants, a dark t-shirt and a keffiyeh, draped like a sash across his right shoulder and tied beneath his left arm. 

The incident occurred during Israel’s Operation Guardian of the Walls (OGW) in Gaza. 

In May 2021, Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ) terrorists fired over 4,300 rockets from Gaza at major population centers in Israel. Israel responded by launching OGW, carrying out targeted military strikes in Gaza.

Violent Protest

Earlier on May 20, 2021, Musa participated in a violent counterprotest against a pro-Israel rally in Times Square. He appeared [00:07:24] in multiple videos [00:05:28] and photos taken during the counterprotest, wearing the same outfit he did when he attacked diners at a restaurant later that evening. 

During the rally, Musa held [00:02:43] both of his middle fingers up at Israel supporters while he and other anti-Israel activists taunted them. At the time, police managed to keep the two groups apart.
 
However, anti-Israel activists later pushed against a police barricade erected to separate the two groups. The anti-Israel side breached the barricade and marched toward the pro-Israel side where they verbally assaulted the pro-Israel activists. Separate videos showed some anti-Israel activists also stealing Israeli flags from the pro-Israel activists.  

The anti-Israel activists then moved back to their side of the barricade where some of them chanted at the Israel supporters: “Nazis! Nazis!” 

After demonstrators threw projectiles, police removed the barricade and proceeded to arrest several anti-Israel activists. Police declared the assembly to be “unlawful” and demanded that the crowd disperse or be arrested. Despite police warnings, some rioters reportedly continued to throw projectiles at police while others fled the scene. 

While police used bicycles to disperse the rioters and pursue a number of them, some anti-Israel activists overturned police barricades to obstruct the street. Others threw garbage bags filled with trash onto the street while others dragged traffic barriers onto the street and overturned fencing.

Present at the Scene of a Hate Crime

Also on May 20, 2021, Musa was present [00:02:34] when anti-Israel activists from the counterprotest violently attacked and reportedly yelled anti-Semitic slurs at Joseph Borgen, a Jewish man who was heading to the pro-Israel rally in Times Square. 

Borgen was beaten to the ground, kicked and punched. Once he was on the ground he was attacked with a crutch, stomped by several counterprotesters and pepper-sprayed.  

Musa approached [00:02:34] and observed Borgen as he lay on the ground. When police officers arrived, he fled the scene and raised his fists in celebration.

Police arrested two of the anti-Israel activists and charged them with assault as a hate crime, menacing as a hate crime and aggravated harassment as a hate crime. That same day, other anti-Israel activists also shot fireworks at people. 

On May 21, 2021, WOL posted two Instagram posts that offered legal support and advice to anyone arrested. The posts also portrayed the assailants as victims.

May 15-17, 2021 - WOL Protest

Musa joined [00:25:13] in a chant honoring martyrdom to “redeem” the Al-Aqsa Mosque in Jerusalem. He was at a WOL protest on May 15, 2021, in Bay Ridge, Brooklyn.

Musa joined [00:25:13] the chant, “بروح ودم نفديك يااقصى [With spirit, with blood, we will redeem you, Aqsa]!” The chant “be-ruh be-dam nifdik ya, Aqsa!” can be heard at anti-Israel rallies in America. It was popularized by terrorist leader Yasser Arafat.

The allegation that Jews “threaten” to destroy the Al-Aqsa Mosque has been a pretext for Arab attacks on Jews long before the existence of the modern Jewish state. Such propaganda has led to multiple periods of violence against Israeli civilians.

Musa could be seen [00:06:51] standing behind someone leading the chant, “Israel is a crime!” Musa wore a blue shirt and a keffiyeh-patterned headband. WOL organized the protest in Bay Ridge, Brooklyn, on May 15, 2021. The protest was titled: “NAKBA 73 - DEFEND PALESTINE!” 

The term “Nakba” is generally translated as “catastrophe” in Arabic, referring to the outcome of the 1948 Arab-Israeli War. It is a term often used to delegitimize the creation of the State of Israel by defining it as a catastrophe.

On May 17, 2021, Musa shared photos of himself taken at the rally, on his Facebook page.

Praising Hitler

On May 3, 2017, Musa tweeted: “@canarymission hitler should've killed all of you b**ch n**gas.” 

Musa’s tweet was in response to a Canary Mission tweet publicizing an anti-Jewish slur made by Mohammed Othman.

On January 20, 2017, Musa tweeted: “I don't like when people compare Trump to Hitler. Hitler unlike Trump, was actually doing something productive.”

On August 2, 2014, Musa tweeted: “Hitler shoulda killed all you pieces of s**t.”

Anti-Semitism

On May 25, 2021, Musa shared a photo on Facebook that featured an anti-Israel protester holding a sign that read: “STOP DOING WHAT HITLER DID TO YOU.”


On March 3, 2017, Musa tweeted: “he makes me so proud. Only Jew I like.”

On October 15, 2015, Musa tweeted: “@AmyMek why are you jews so hateful? You arent ever going to control the world. Don't worry though god got a special place for you people.”

On January 15, 2015, Musa tweeted: “I swear I have no remorse for any jew, I used to only hate Zionist but f**k it they're all the same. I was bout to get it in with this1herb”

On October 15, 2014, Musa tweeted: “May Allah grant the yahood jahenam [Jews hell]."

On October 14, 2014, Musa tweeted: “And now these dirty filthy Jews are literally dancing their way into the aqsa. It's f**king disturbing and pathetic.Get out of our country!”

In the fall of 2014, Palestinian leaders and media incited a wave of violence against Israelis with the lie that Israel intended to desecrate the Al-Aqsa Mosque in Jerusalem. This resulted in the November 18, 2014 Har Nof massacre, in which terrorists murdered six people in a Jerusalem synagogue during morning prayers.

On July 13, 2014, Musa tweeted: “ … f**k the EVERY JEW LOVER OUT THERE!!!”

Promoting a White Nationalist

On May 12, 2018, Musa wrote on Facebook: “Y’all already know who got my vote.” His post featured a video of white nationalist and U.S. Senate candidate Patrick Little, after the California Republican Party ejected him from its convention for his anti-Semitism. 

From outside the building, Little made a video while standing on an Israeli flag and said [00:00:21]: “I will not bow to a foreign flag. I will not serve a foreign government. The Republican party, the GOP of California, is nothing but Zionist stooges. They do the bidding of a foreign power that has committed terrorist attacks…” Little then spat on the Israeli flag and continued [00:00:41]: “...against this country.” 

Little went on to say [00:02:00]: “We know there are Israeli fingerprints all over the 9/11 attacks. This is the flag of a terrorist country. They called the police on me when I started stepping on it… because I won’t serve a foreign power…”