A guy from Illinois was sentenced on Friday to 53 years in jail after a jury convicted him of the murder of a 6-year-old Palestinian American young boy and the extreme wounding of his mom in an October 2023 hate criminal activity stabbing, The Chicago Sun-Times reported.
Joseph Czuba, 73, stabbed and eliminated Wadee Alfayoumi and knifed Hanan Shaheen days after United States ally Israel started its war on Gaza following Hamas’s October 7, 2023, attack on southern Israel.
District attorneys stated the stabbing – among the earliest and worst hate criminal activity events in the United States because the start of the war – was stimulated by anti-Muslim hatred. United States rights supporters have actually kept in mind increasing Islamophobia, anti-Arab hate and antisemitism.
Czuba eliminated a 6-year-old kid
Czuba, who was the property manager for Shaheen and her boy, stabbed the young boy 26 times with a military-style knife with a 7-inch (18-cm) serrated blade, authorities stated. Shaheen suffered numerous stab injuries in the attack that happened in Plainfield Municipality, about 40 miles (64 km) southwest of Chicago.
Czuba was condemned in late February. Shaheen affirmed throughout the trial that Czuba informed her “you, as a Muslim, should pass away.”
Other current events raising alarm in the United States about anti-Arab and anti-Palestinian bias consist of the tried drowning of a 3-year-old Palestinian American lady and the stabbing of a Palestinian American male, both in Texas.
Occurrences raising alarm over antisemitism and anti-Israel mindsets consist of a not successful plot to assault a New york city Jewish center and an arson attack on Pennsylvania Guv Josh Shapiro’s home.
Hate events have actually likewise been reported throughout demonstrations and counter-protests associated with the war.
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