The New York Police Department was considering charging an Israeli woman on suspicion that she committed a hate crime after she confronted pro-Palestinian protesters demonstrating on the Brooklyn Bridge. More than 7,000 marched on the main New York thoroughfare last Saturday blocking traffic and carrying signs saying: "Zionism is terror" and "Biden is funding genocide."
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Some climbed on the railings, chanting "from the river to the sea, Palestine will be free," while others responded with calls for an intifada.
In an edited video clip posted by the protesters, the woman who is a producer, appears shouting at a 31-year-old protester that he deserves to die while little children are heard crying in the background. According to the police, she allegedly slapped the man.
The surprising decision of NYPD comes after pro-Palestinian protesters occupied the city's Grand Central Station in protest of Israel's bombing of Gaza, which followed the massacre perpetrated by the Hamas terror group earlier this month.
Increasingly protests have been taking place accusing Israel of crimes against humanity while antisemitic incidents spiked on college campuses and around the United States. According to the Anti-Defamation League, there has been a 400% rise in antisemitic incidents since the start of the war.
The Israeli said that since her altercation with the protesters, she had come under online attack and was professionally shunned.