Police have charged Noora Shalash, a former employee of the Council of American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), after footage depicting her harassing Jewish individuals and assaulting a man in Manhattan went viral, according to multiple media reports.
Shalash, of Lexington, Kentucky, has been charged with aggravated harassment, and a second-degree hate crime for the viral incident, the New York Post reported citing police.
This is a lie. This person has not worked with our CAIR-KY chapter in five years. She has no role at our civil rights group. We condemn and reject the antisemitic comments in the video, just as we condemn and reject anti-Palestinian racism and anti-Muslim hate you regularly spew.… https://t.co/mMuPUsgjZV
— CAIR National (@CAIRNational) February 7, 2025
“F*** the Jews, I love Jesus…I demand Jihad! I want ISIS to kill all of you! I am conspiring with Hamas, Palestinian Jihad and with ISIS, I am conspiring with them!” Shalash said in the viral video which also depicts her trying to kick a man and swatting at a phone recording her.
She is expected to be arraigned in Manhattan Criminal Court on Saturday. Police said she was taken for a mental evaluation following her detainment.
Seth Bell, one of Shalash’s alleged victims who filmed the attack, told the New York Post that the 39-year-old woman “was equating some random Jewish guy with what was going on in the Middle East, which is classic antisemitism.”
CAIR’s response
While initial reports claimed that Shalash was a director for CAIR’s Kentucky branch, an organization that has faced a number of antisemitism accusations, the organization denied that she was currently working for them.
“This person has not worked with our CAIR-KY chapter in FIVE years,” CAIR National wrote on X/Twitter. “She has no other role at our civil rights group today. We condemn and reject the antisemitic comments in the video.”
As usual, you’re lying. This person has not worked with our CAIR-KY chapter in FIVE years. She has no other role at our civil rights group today. We condemn and reject the antisemitic comments in the video, just as we condemn and reject the anti-Palestinian racism and anti-Muslim… https://t.co/hMGgaConoj
— CAIR National (@CAIRNational) February 7, 2025
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