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Mohammed Said Othman, 29, pleaded guilty in September to one count of second-degree attempted gang assault and one count of third-degree assault as a hate crime for the beating, which left victim Joseph Borgen, 29, with a concussion, among other injuries.
Supporters of antisemitic hate crime suspect Mahmoud Musa protested in court when New York City judge handed down a seven-year sentence for a Jewish man's beating.
Joseph Borgen, 31, was brutally beaten by a group of pro-Palestinian demonstrators in May 2021, as he made his way to a pro-Israel rally in Times Square while wearing a kippah.
Joseph Borgen, a Jewish Long Island resident whom five men assaulted and pepper-sprayed in a May 2021 antisemitic attack that shocked the New York Jewish community, voiced mixed feelings about the legal punishment for one of his attackers, Waseem Awawdeh, who pled guilty late last month to attempted assault as a hate crime and now
While pursuing vendettas against his political opponents.