A man attacks an Iraqi content creator and demands that she remove the “Free Gaza” sticker from her laptop (social media sites)
Iraqi influencer Nastassia Hayat documented her exposure to harassment from a café patron in New York City because of a sticker on her laptop, and his attempt to expel her from the place.
According to what appeared in the video, one of them attacked her because the slogan pasted on the computer bore the phrase “Free Gaza.” And when she tried to defend herself and say that she was suffering from sadness for her peers in Palestine, his behavior became more aggressive, and the café workers tried to deter him, but they were unable, and in an attempt to protect Nastasya threatened to call the police.
On the other hand, the man threatened the content creator that if she did not put down her phone and stop filming her harassment, he would call the police, considering the poster to be anti-Semitic, as he claims. He did not leave the café until after the insistence of the workers and refunded the price of his coffee.
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“I rarely leave my house because of how frustrated I am about Palestine and the racist way the United States deals with it, and because this city that I once felt was my safe haven is now unsafe,” Nastasya said.
She added, "Yesterday I decided to spend a normal day and go do something fun, so I met a friend in a cafe, and immediately after she left, this man came to me and started harassing me about the 'Free Gaza' sticker on my laptop."
She continued, "And when I tried to defend myself, and when the staff at the café intervened to defend me and did everything in their power to protect me and get him out, when he refused to leave after I asked him several times to leave me, he kept threatening me with calling the police if I did not stop recording him and if I did not remove the stickers from my private property." .
The content maker described the situation as "the audacity of racists to believe that we should bow to them because they truly believe that they are the superior race. This man believes that he has the right to demand the removal of posters from private property, and then he has the audacity to assault me while I am recording it as evidence against him."
Source: Al Jazeera