The anti-Israel agitator who wore a Hezbollah t-shirt and a disguise while threatening a Jewish man connected a Manhattan train was slapped pinch a dislike crime complaint connected Wednesday, constabulary said.
Christopher Husary, 37, was charged pinch an attempted dislike crime and aggravated harassment for nan June 10 verbal attack, wherever he allegedly spouted antisemitic vitriol astatine White Plains lawyer Joshua Savitt.
The disturbing run-in unfolded arsenic Savitt, 35, was connected his measurement location aft attending a Manhattan exhibit memorializing nan victims of nan deadly Oct. 7 Nova Music Festival attack when he noticed 2 group vandalizing nan train car adjacent Union Square.
“Free Gaza,” they allegedly spray painted, starring Savitt to threat their photo.
The vandals past confronted him and called him a “Zionist,” police said astatine nan time.
In an exclusive interview pinch The Post aft nan attack, Savitt said that Husary taunted him while demanding Savitt not photograph him.
“Bro, if you only knew who I was,” Husary allegedly seethed, Savitt recounted.
“He said thing to nan effect of ‘we’re going to find you, we’re going to get you,” Savitt said astir nan hateful display, which occurred aft anti-Israel protesters descended extracurricular nan exhibit.
Savitt revenge a constabulary study aft The Post unmasked Husary arsenic a bicoastal agitator still surviving pinch his parents wrong their $1.8 cardinal California home.
Husary — who has a drawstring of protestation arrests — defended himself successful an interview, claiming Savitt was nan aggressor.
“The feline who stopped maine and my friends is simply a terrorist. And past he lies and says I made a weapon gesture,” Husary said successful precocious June.
“I put my manus up because he was pursuing and harassing us. I caught him.”
Husary was extradited from California to look nan charges.