ALBANY – New York’s Hate Crimes Act broadly applies to a range of offenses, including religiously motivated property crimes, in addition to criminal acts against individuals based on race, color, faith, gender or other personal characteristics, the Court of Appeals ruled yesterday.
The 7-0 Court upheld the hate-crime conviction of Mazin Assi, who acknowledged putting Molotov cocktails in front of a Riverdale synagogue on the eve of Yom Kippur in 2000 in anger over the recent shooting of a Palestinian child by an Israeli soldier.
