Chelsea Building Manager Arrested For Anti-Semitic Phone Calls, Messages

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A Chelsea building manager was arrested today on allegations that he made a series of anti-Semitic phone calls and scrawled hateful messages and symbols on apartment doors in the neighborhood. Two people say David Haddad, 56, made threatening and anti-Semitic phone calls to an 80-year-old Brooklyn woman Brooklyn last month. Investigators also say Haddad, who is "Jewish but not practicing," according to one police source, called an unidentified woman on January 10th and threatened her in her Chelsea apartment building.

In the same building, investigators found racist graffiti on five apartment doors and in the hallway. Police tell the News that Haddad preyed on the women with hateful, threatening phone calls over the next few days, and while his alleged motive is currently unclear, he's being charged with aggravated harassment as a hate crime. A police source tells the News Haddad may also be responsible for the spray-painted swastikas and “Die Jews” graffiti found in Midwood this weekend.

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By John Del Signore in News on January 16, 2012 6:00 PM

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felixthecat

Lots of Jew on Jew Hate crime reporting. This ban on hate crime speech is unconstitutional. it doesn't stop hate but fosters it. Political correctness gone wild. Better we have an open dialogue and i am sure the goodness of people will silence the racists. No need to ban free speech.

DrSysz

You said it.....watching good-hearted "progressive" people support the idea of "hate crimes" is depressing as hell for anyone who grew up when people knew WHY the first amendment had to come first. Anyone who trusts the government to decide who will be considered "haters" and who will be considered "speakers" is naive indeed.....

DrSysz

It wasn't an army of neo-nazis waiting to kill everyone in Midwood?

Just a frame-job or a mentally ill person?

What a shock........lol

Nos Feratu

You are more likely to find diamonds scattered around the streets of Midwood than you are to find a neo-Nazi.

EricKosten

Oh no! Jew on Jew petty crime! Someone alert the press!

AaronRed99

Dpes it matter that he is non practicing?Self loathing is still self loathing.

Nos Feratu

Well, well, well. The Brooklyn "neo-Nazi" fell in the well. Told you so. Every time the Israelis commit some new outrage, or another super holy Hasidim gets locked up for being a swindler or perv, there is an avalanche of "anti-Semitic hate crimes". Craven liars, like Dov Hikind, command the media to broadcast his twaddle, and all of us are supposed to become overcome with righteous indignation, run down to the nearest Army recruiting office, and demand to be sent to Iran.