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March 31, 2017

Hate Crimes Charges Filed Against Two in Assault on Arab American
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In Washington, D.C., police have charged two members of an anti-Arab
extremist group with hate crimes, after they were captured on video
brutally beating a Palestinian-American school teacher. The assault
occurred last Sunday outside a conference center where the American
Israel Public Affairs Committee-or AIPAC-was holding its annual meeting.
In the video, members of the JDL-the Jewish Defense League-are seen
waving yellow flags as they surround 55-year-old Kamal Nayfeh, before
kicking and punching him and beating him with a flagpole. The assault
left Nayfeh hospitalized with a badly bloodied eye. The Southern Poverty
Law Center says the JDL has a history of bombings and was classified in
2000 as a "right-wing terrorist group" by the FBI.


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