A Brooklyn man wearing a Palestinian scarf was arrested this week after getting into a caught-on-video scuffle with locals on the Upper East Side while trying to rip down Israeli hostage posters they were putting up.

Mohamed Khalil, 21, was charged with harassment, disorderly conduct, resisting arrest and obstruction Tuesday in the incident at 68th Street and Lexington Avenue around 5:30 p.m., when he tried to push past locals who appeared to be posting the leaflets on a utility pole, footage posted on X shows.

“Why you taking it down?” one man says to Khalil. “Don’t touch me. Don’t f—ing touch me. I don’t give a f–k. Get the f–k outta here. You’re a scumbag!”

Others in the group get between the pole and Khalil, who is wearing the scarf over his face – a black-and-white chequered garment called a keffiyeh that has become synonymous with the Palestinian cause.

They then push Khalil away, with one woman seen hugging the pole to protect the posters.

That’s when the cops show up.

“You know the reason he’s doing it,” another resident tells one of the officers.

Khalil is placed in handcuffs after briefly scuffling with police.

One bystander stood up for him, yelling, “He wasn’t doing anything.”

“Yes, he was,” one of the people in the group responds. “He was ripping the f–ing signs down.”

Several people in the group applaud as Khalil is placed in the police vehicle.

The NYPD said the incident is now being investigated by the Hate Crimes Task Force as a possible bias incident.

The encounter was among the latest confrontations between pro-Palestinian and pro-Israeli residents, with tensions heightened since the surprise attack on Israel by radical Hamas militants on Oct. 7 and the subsequent retaliation by the Jewish State in the Gaza Strip.

Some Israeli supporters have taken to displaying posters of the more than 200 Israelis kidnapped by Hamas on Oct. 7, nearly all of them civilians, in a display of solidarity.

Additional reporting by Joe Marino