#Zacharia Doar

[vyorei]

BIAS MOTIVATED?! IT'S A FUCKING HATE CRIME!! CALL IT SUCH!!

If an American Israeli was stabbed we would NEVER hear the end of it!! It would be deemed the most egregious act!!

[i-am-aprl]

“Mr. Joe Biden, I blame you for what happened to me. If you would have called for a ceasefire three months ago, this would have never happened.”

— 23 year-old Palestinian-American stabbing victim Zacharia Doar

The US’s largest Muslim civil rights and advocacy group wants prosecutors to bring federal and state hate crime charges against a man arrested in the stabbing of a 23-year-old Palestinian American man Sunday evening in Texas.

The victim, identified by his father as Zacharia Doar, was hospitalized and had surgery following the incident, which, according to the Council on American-Islamic Relations, followed a pro-Palestinian protest in Austin.

“He’s in pain, he’s in agony,” Nizar Doar, the victim’s father, said at a news conference Tuesday, where CAIR representatives and other community leaders called for the incident to be treated as a hate crime, pointing in part to the suspect’s alleged attempt to rip a flagpole bearing a keffiyeh – a traditional Palestinian scarf – from the car in which the victim was traveling.

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Texas investigators say the stabbing of a Palestinian-American man protesting against the war in Gaza meets the police definition of a hate crime.

The alleged attack took place on Sunday near the University of Texas in Austin.

The suspect allegedly rode a bike up to a truck carrying four Muslims and tried to rip down a scarf from the vehicle bearing the words "Free Palestine".

On Wednesday, Austin Police Department officials said Bert James Baker, 36, had committed a hate crime.

The ruling from the police Hate Crimes Review Committee says that it will now be up to the Travis County District Attorney's Office to determine what charges he will ultimately face.

Zacharia Doar, 23, was stabbed in the chest during a fight with Mr Baker, according to a police report of the incident.

The group was attacked after attending a pro-Palestinian protest at the state capitol, according to the Council on American-Islamic Relations, which has advocated for hate crime charges against their attacker.

Mr Baker is accused of trying to open the truck's tailgate, and yelling racial slurs at the group in order to provoke a fight, according to the police report.

One witness told the Austin American-Statesmen newspaper that he helped by using the scarf - a traditional Palestinian keffiyeh - to staunch the bleeding.

"In that moment, it was just extremely terrifying," said Suhaib Shah.

"Just seeing the amount of pain that this guy was in who had been stabbed and how much he was bleeding and just seeing how distraught the kids were."

Mr Doar has undergone surgery and is now in recovery, his family says.

Attacks on Muslims and Jews have risen since the 7 October attack by Hamas and Israel's ground invasion of Gaza.

In November, three men of Palestinian descent in Vermont were shot while wearing keffiyehs and speaking Arabic during a walk.

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Christian Zacharias este director de onoare al filarmonicii bucureștene Dirijorul și pianistul Christian Zacharias va fi director onorific al Filarmonicii „George Enescu” din București în stagiunea 2020-2021, titlu pe care până acum l-a deținut doar Sergiu Celibidache, conform instituției bucureștene.