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UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURG: Palestinian headrag-wearing man attacks two Jewish students with a glass bottle
Campus police arrested Jarrett Buba, 52, in the assault, the Pittsburgh Post Gazette reported. University officials said he had no known affiliation with the school.
NY Post (h/t Nita) Buba, who lives in the Oakland neighborhood where the school is located and was wearing a keffiyeh, the checkered scarf associated with terror group Hamas, had been sitting at a table across a main street from where the students, both wearing Jewish skullcaps, were walking on the final day of the first week of classes.
The Muslim attacker then ran across the street and attacked them from behind, the criminal complaint said, according to the Post Gazette. They fought back, bringing Buba to the ground while they waited for campus cops to arrive.
Surveillance footage backs up the students’ account, the report said. The students, who were not named, were injured in the “appalling” attack, which occurred near the university’s famed Cathedral of Learning, according to a university statement released Friday. Police said he initially gave a series of false names before properly identifying himself.
The police report said one of the students had cuts on his face and the other was bleeding from cuts on his neck, the Post Gazette said. One was taken to a local hospital and later released.
The area where the attack took place was the scene of pro-Hamas protests during spring semester calling for the university to divest from Israel and companies doing business with Israel in response to the war in Gaza.
Buba was charged with two counts of aggravated assault, resisting arrest and harassment, among other charges, the Post Gazette reported. Agents from the FBI’s Pittsburgh field office are looking at the attack as a possible hate crime.
Pitt leaders reached out to the Hillel University Center and Jewish Federation of Greater Pittsburgh in the wake of the attack, which took place less than two miles from the Tree of Life Synagogue, where in 2018, mass shooter Robert Bowers killed 11 in the deadliest antisemitic attack in US history.
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The Speakersays
A Muslim terrorist attack against two Jewish students in Pittsburgh. Pa.
The Speaker says
A Muslim terrorist attack against two Jewish students in Pittsburgh. Pa.
Bugsy278 says
Absolutely a hate crime! By definition…stupid fucks.
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