The knife-wielding woman accused of ripping down posters of Israeli hostages and pepper spraying a Jewish safety volunteer in Brooklyn last week seethed “I’ll kill you Jews” before attacking, the victim told The Post.
Melissa Ugur, 20, was allegedly slicing up the fliers Saturday afternoon in Midwood when Shmira Public Safety volunteer Mark Pomerantz confronted her and asked why she was taking the posters down.
“Because it’s not true, it never happened,” Ugur replied about the approximately 240 hostages Hamas terrorists kidnapped in their surprise attack last month, according to Pomerantz.
The 52-year-old father of three told her that he didn’t want any trouble, but explained: “Nobody would hang up posters like that if it wasn’t true.”
Ugur then exploded in an antisemitic-fueled rage, Pomerantz told The Post.
“As she was cutting the papers, she said ‘Oh and you’re a Jew?” he recounted in a phone interview.
“She said ‘See how I’m slicing these papers? That’s how I’ll slice up all you Jews and kill you.'”
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Pomerantz asked her if she was threatening him while she allegedly continued spewing antisemitic vitriol.
“She goes ‘I’ll kill you Jews and dirty Jews.’ She kept going on and on and stated Allahu Akbar and Muhammad,” he said, moments before she unleashed pepper spray in his face.
After blasting him, Ugur ran but was collared by police after a few Shmira members were called for backup and helped Pomerantz chase her down, he said.
“They’re kidnapping and I pepper sprayed him!” Ugur, of Brooklyn, bizarrely ranted as cops led her into the back of a police car, video obtained by The Post shows.
She was charged with assault, menacing, and criminal possession of a weapon.
At her arraignment in Brooklyn Criminal Court on Sunday, a judge released her without bail pending her next court date on Jan. 18.
Pomerantz, meanwhile, wants the unhinged 20-year-old charged with a hate crime.
“If that is not considered terrorism or a hate crime to you, I don’t know what is,” Pomerantz said, recalling what he told a sergeant on the scene.
“She definitely saw my yarmulke,” Pomerantz said, referring to Ugur’s assault.
“I’m assuming that’s how she differentiated that I’m Jewish.”
The horrific incident unfolded as hate crimes against Jewish New Yorkers skyrocketed since the raging Israel-Hamas war started last month, with a whopping 214 % surge in antisemitic incidents in October, the NYPD announced Wednesday.
Ugur’s attorney did not immediately return a request for comment.