


The pro-Palestinian protester who called for “Zionists” to identify themselves on a crowded New York subway car turned himself in to the police on Wednesday.
Anas Saleh has reportedly been charged with coercion after the New York City Police Department released a wanted poster with an image of his face taken from surveillance footage last week, according to the New York Post.
Saleh allegedly entered a subway train at Manhattan’s Union Square station on June 10 and chanted, “Raise your hands if you’re a Zionist. Repeat after me. This is your chance to get out.”
“OK, no Zionists, we’re good,” he was then heard saying.
A video of the incident later went viral online, and at least one rider filed a police complaint, ABC News reported.
The incident was part of a string of similar incidents that prompted condemnations of antisemitism from New York officials.
The same day, a group of pro-Palestinian protesters waved a “Long live October 7” banner at Union Square, while another protester yelled that he wished “Hitler was still here” because he would have “wiped all you out.”
Another group of protesters set off smoke bombs and chanted “Long live the intifada” outside a Manhattan exhibit memorializing the victims of the Oct. 7 attack on Israel, and the homes of the Brooklyn Museum’s Jewish director and some board members were vandalized with red paint.
“This is not peaceful protest or free speech,” New York Mayor Eric Adams wrote in a post on X at the time. “This is a crime, and it’s overt, unacceptable antisemitism.”
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Gov. Kathy Hochul (D-NY) issued a similar statement.
“We stand with the Jewish community in the face of hate and will continue to fight antisemitism wherever it rears its ugly head,” she wrote in a post on X.