A “boozed up” Yonkers man who attacked a Jewish barber with his own scissors in a shocking antisemitic attack last year is facing six years in prison after cutting a plea deal with a Westchester County judge.
Ahmed al Jabali, 34, pleaded guilty to second-degree assault as a hate crime last week in the Aug. 29 assault on Yonkers barber Slava Shushakova over the Israeli/Hamas war in Gaza, prosecutors said Monday.
Shushakova told The Post after the attack that Jabali was having his beard trimmed at his Yonkers Avenue shop when he flew into a rage, telling the barber that “he has a right as a Muslim to punish Jews.”
Jabali, a Muslim originally from Yemen, was arrested and charged with attempted murder.
On Thursday, he pleaded guilty to the lesser assault charge with the judge promising him a six-year sentence. The charge carries a sentence of up to 15 years under state law.
“Hate has no home in Westchester County,” Westchester County District Attorney Susan Cacace said in a statement released Monday. “The rise in antisemitic hate over the last several years is disturbing and completely unacceptable.
“Today and every day, my office stands with the Jewish community of Westchester and will seek justice for victims of antisemitic violence,” the statement said.
Police said Shushakova needed 30 stitches to close the bloody gashes to his right hand and wrist he suffered in the attack, which temporarily knocked him out of work.
“Thank God he didn’t touch my face because he tried to hit me different ways,” he said in the earlier interview. “This is how I stopped him, with my hands.”
The barber shop attack came during an Israeli military counteroffensive in the Gaza strip following a sneak attack on Israel on Oct. 7, 2023.
Jabali is due to be sentenced by Judge James McCarty on May 29.
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