{"id":89255,"date":"2025-08-18T19:40:04","date_gmt":"2025-08-19T00:40:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/?p=89255"},"modified":"2025-08-19T04:43:23","modified_gmt":"2025-08-19T09:43:23","slug":"ohio-man-admits-to-federal-hate-crime-for-antisemitic-attack-on-jewish-students-at-ohio-state","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/ohio-man-admits-to-federal-hate-crime-for-antisemitic-attack-on-jewish-students-at-ohio-state\/","title":{"rendered":"Ohio man admits to federal hate crime for antisemitic attack on Jewish students at Ohio State"},"content":{"rendered":"

By GRACE GILSON<\/p>\n

(JTA) \u2014 An Ohio man pleaded guilty on Friday to a federal hate crime for assaulting two Jewish students at the Ohio State University in November 2023 after asking if they were Jewish.<\/p>\n

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Ohio State University (Robert Chriss, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

The Justice Department announced Friday that Timur Mamatov, 20, of Tipp City, Ohio, had pleaded guilty to violating the Hate Crimes Prevention Act for a Nov. 10, 2023, altercation between him and five OSU students outside of a bar in Columbus, Ohio.<\/p>\n

Prior to the incident, which took place a month after Hamas\u2019 Oct. 7, 2023, attack on Israel, the group of students yelled something at a food cart vendor, according to court records obtained by The Columbus Dispatch. One of the students was wearing a chai necklace around his neck, according to the Justice Department.<\/p>\n

Mamatov and a friend then approached the group and asked the students if they were Jewish. When the students replied that they were, Mamatov punched one of the victims, fracturing his jaw. A second victim fractured his nose during the ensuing fight, according to the Justice Department.<\/p>\n

\u201cMamatov admitted in court today that he assaulted victims because they were Jewish,\u201d U.S. Attorney Dominick S. Gerace II said in a statement. \u201cNo American should fear being violently attacked based on their religious beliefs.\u201d<\/p>\n

In April 2024, StandWithUs, the Anti-Defamation League and the Louis D. Brandeis Center for Human Rights Under Law filed a Title VI complaint against OSU accusing the school of failing to properly address \u201cpervasive\u201d antisemitism on its campus after the Oct. 7 attacks.<\/p>\n

The complaint alleged that during the November 2023 attack, the assailants had shouted \u201cfree Palestine\u201d and called the student wearing the chai necklace a racial slur.<\/p>\n

Mamatov was charged on July 3 for violating the Hate Crimes Prevention Act, which is punishable by up to 10 years in prison.<\/p>\n

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