Police nabbed a Jewish man Monday who was wanted for a string of anti-Semitic hate crimes since December, police sources said.
The NYPD Hate Crimes Task Force tracked down David Haddad, 56, after several complaints were made – one by a relative and at least one other by a person known to him – for harassing them by phone and scribbling anti-Semitic symbols on apartment doors.
“Knowing someone put swastikas and derogatory messages on my door makes me sick,” said Susan Levin, who lives down the hall from Haddad, who allegedly wrote “All Jews Should Die” on her front door.
A neighbor called the cops after spotting five out of eight doors on the floor where Haddad lives scribbled with swastikas and anti-Semitic messages.
“It’s so shocking that it could happen in a building like this,” the Chelsea resident said of her home near W. 28th St.
“He told detectives he’s Jewish but not practicing,” one source said.
Haddad, a building manager who lives on 8th Ave. in Chelsea, was arrested at his job Monday after the task force traced at least one of his phone calls, police said. He was charged with aggravated harassment as a hate crime, police said.
Ponder this one for a minute. Hate crimes are so stupid that a Jewish man can be charged with a hate crime for putting anti-semitic symbols on Jewish doors?
If that’s a hate crime, is it a hate crime when a black person says “I’m gonna kill you nigga!” and shoots another black person in a gang-related crime?
This is why hate crimes are stupid ideas. It sounds like a good idea until you try to implement it.