Palestinian-American teacher brutally attacked by Jewish Defense League outside AIPAC conference

A 55-year old Palestinian-American instructor at a community college in North Carolina was “brutally beaten” by members of the Jewish Defense League (JDL) while walking by the AIPAC conference in Washington DC on Sunday, according to a video and statement released by the Institute for Middle East Understanding (IMEU) today. The man was identified as Kamal Nayfeh.

The JDL affiliates “punched and kicked him and hit him in the face with flag poles, leaving him with cuts and bruises all over his face and body,” said the IMEU in the statement. Photos were taken of Nayfeh after the and beatings show his face bloodied and bruised.

The video picks up as the violent encounter is in progress. It is unknown what occurred in the moments before filming began.

After the assault, Nayfeh was treated for injuries at a nearby hospital and police arrested two of the JDL members. “One was charged with a misdemeanor and another with felony assault. They have not been charged with a hate crime,” IMEU said.

Nayfeh’s daughter Danya released a statement on the incident where she questioned why those arrested were not charged with the enhancement of a hate crime:

“When I heard the screams and found out my father was being beaten nearby, I was horrified. I ran to him as quickly as I could. He appeared stunned and his eye looked awful, all swollen and cut up. They beat him after they heard he was Palestinian. He was not threatening at all, it’s perfectly clear that my father was brutalized simply because of who he is.

The police, who were already present, took a long time to make an arrest, despite the fact that my father was assaulted in front of plenty of witnesses. The perpetrators were left to freely walk around for a while before being detained. I had to ask the police to take action. I know they could have done more to keep everyone safe from this group, and I don’t know why this wasn’t treated as a hate crime. Our entire family is shaken by this incident. Communities can’t feel safe and secure when the JDL and other hate groups are emboldened by this new hateful atmosphere we’re living in.”

The JDL was founded in New York in 1968. According to the Southern Poverty Center the group was designated “a right-wing terrorist group” by the FBI in a 2000/2001 report. Its members are responsible for attempted bombings of congressional offices and a mosque, planting a smoke bomb in New York, and a number of assaults including beating the staff of Jewish organizations and a holocaust survivor.

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This is what Trump has unleashed. Deplorables and terrorists who have taken his racism as a green light, to openly terrorize and resort to violence. JDL has been named as a terrorist organization, and banned in the US, so why are they so openly operating here? For those who may have forgotten, here are the details of how they became so violent in the US, and murdered Alex Odeh, an Arab activist in California, and how Israel protected the murderers, giving the FBI a very hard time to find the perpetrators.
I have never seen Arab Americans behave this way in the US. It seems these Jewish terrorist have a sense of entitlement to resort to any kind of criminals behavior here. So why are there no arrests? This kind of behavior reminds me of the terrorists who live in illegal settlements. They are vicious and violent thugs.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alex_Odeh

Reposting this here:

… “Kamal Nayfeh, a father of four and an instructor at Central Piedmont Community College in Charlotte, NC, was reportedly visiting his daughter Danya, a student at Georgetown University in Washington at the time.

He was punched and kicked and clobbered with flag poles, leaving him with cuts and bruises all over his face and body. He was taken to George Washington University Hospital and treated for his injuries. He had to have 18 stitches around his eye.

His daughter Danya, who can be heard screaming in the video “that’s my dad!”, recalled the attack in a statement provided to the Institute for Middle East Understanding (IMEU):

When I heard the screams and found out my father was being beaten nearby, I was horrified. I ran to him as quickly as I could. He appeared stunned and his eye looked awful, all swollen and cut up. They beat him after they heard he was Palestinian. He was not threatening at all, it’s perfectly clear that my father was brutalized simply because of who he is.

Two of the JDL members who attacked Nayfeh were eventually arrested by the police and released, according to the IMUE. One was charged with a misdemeanor and another with felony assault.

Speaking via phone with +972 Magazine, Danya Nayfeh said she had to repeatedly plead with police to arrest her father’s attackers, screaming “who did this?” and that officers threatened to arrest her instead for if she didn’t stop demanding they take action against the JDL men. She said the first people to pull JDL guys off her dad were other protesters, she assumes from IfNotNow.” …

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What a terrible mob beating. I hope the perpetrators are put in jail.

They keep adding insult to injury. The king of evil announces more illegal settlements, after all he did promise his subjects they will get even more homes to live as squatters. . Keep in mind they have illegally built over 2500 already in the WB. Land thieves and murderers.

“Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu hinted on Thursday that the security cabinet will approve the establishment of a new settlement in the West Bank for the evacuees of Amona.
“I have promised in the first place that we would establish a new settlement,” Netanyahu said at the start of his meeting with Slovakia President Andrej Kiska. “I think I made the first commitment in December, and we will hold it today. [In] a few more hours… you will have all the details.”
read more: http://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/1.780438

Let me go off on the tangential question of the authority of the Southern Poverty Law Center for being a reference about “hate”. They and the Anti-Defamation League appear to be maintaining matrices of “Hate Groups” while affected by a subjective left-oriented point of view. They appear to me to be defaming persons holding honest political views, or expressing opposition to Zionism, the political kind.

I would like to find a non-biased reference for “hate groups”, but alas, all is in the eye of the beholder. Better to dispute ideas than to do name-calling.

The Southern Poverty Law Center is not without controversy. They have accumulated an endowment of about $320 million while spending about $40 million per year. The Red Cross and The Boy Scouts, for example, are typical in having endowments that are about equal to a year’s expenditures. Wikipedia has a report of the SPLC:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southern_Poverty_Law_Center