New York, April 27 (RHC)-- The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) is calling on the New York Police Department (NYPD) to pursue hate crime charges against “members of a pro-Israel mob” who were seen chasing and attacking a woman, whom they thought was Arab-American.

The incident, which was caught on video and posted online, occurred after protesters gathered outside an event where Israel’s far-right national security minister, Itamar Ben-Gvir, was speaking in Brooklyn, New York.

Drop Site News, which posted the video, said the mob threw a traffic cone into her head and a garbage can at her legs, and taunted her “with explicit threats of rape.”  The video showed a single police officer escorting the woman as dozens of men, many of whom appeared to be Orthodox Jewish, followed and harassed her.

CAIR’s national deputy director, Edward Ahmed Mitchell, denounced the men’s actions.  “We strongly condemn the violent mob of pro-Israel racists who chased and attacked a woman down a New York City street while shouting ‘Death to Arabs’ and other vile slurs, such as calling her a ‘waste of semen’,” he said.

“We call on elected officials across New York to condemn these hate actions, and we call on law enforcement to identify and prosecute those responsible for hate crimes,” Mitchell added.

[ SOURCE:  AL JAZEERA and DROP SITE NEWS ]