The craven, masked pro-Palestine protester who made the entrance web page of The Submit after he allegedly accosted a Jewish man on the subway is a privileged, bicoastal agitator who nonetheless lives with mommy and daddy of their $1.8 million California dwelling, The Submit can reveal.
Christopher Khamis Victor Husary is an America-hating, former enterprise main with arrests tied to protests in California and NYC — the place he even scored a $17,000 payday final month after he claimed he was crushed by cops throughout a 2020 Black Lives Matter protest in Brooklyn, information present.
His id was first uncovered by the activist group EndJewHatred based mostly on Husary’s personal social media posts — the place he all however admitted he was the particular person on The Submit’s June 15 cowl.
“Goes to ny for a day,” Husary, 36, wrote alongside an Instagram submit sharing the Submit entrance web page. “I can odor a child killer from a mile away …. name homeland safety … i went by jfk with this shirt & had all of the patriots panicked af.
“i like actual jews simply fyi,” he added.
He made no bones about his twisted allegiances Friday when confronted by The Submit at his household’s five-bedroom dwelling within the tony San Francisco suburb of Hayward.
“Israel is a terror group and so is America. The primary terrorist is America,” he declared from his childhood bed room. Hanging on a curtain rod was the yellow Hezbollah T-shirt he wore June 10 aboard a subway prepare when he threatened a Jewish stranger who had simply visited an exhibit memorializing the victims of the Oct. 7 Hamas assault.
The incident on the subway got here shortly after a masked mob of pro-Hamas demonstrators swarmed the exhibit earlier that day chanting, “Lengthy Stay the Intifada,” then flooded the subways, the place they demanded “Zionists” elevate their palms and warned, “That is your likelihood to get out.”
Josh Savitt, who was sporting a yarmulke, mentioned Husary snarled, “Bro, if you happen to solely knew who I used to be.”
Husary claimed he wasn’t on the Nova exhibit and denied threatening Savitt, insisting the White Plains lawyer was the aggressor.
“I caught him taking my picture of my 4 buddies, and he wasn’t apologetic about it,” Husary claimed, saying he was with 4 ladies on the time. “I felt the necessity to shield them. I’m a protector. I shield ladies and kids. That’s an actual man’s job. … He’s harassing us.
“The man who stopped me and my buddies is a terrorist. After which he lies and says I made a gun gesture.
“I put my hand up as a result of he was following and harassing us. I caught him,” mentioned Husary, who has not been arrested within the incident.
“I don’t threaten Jews,” claimed Husary, who denied Hamas dedicated mass rapes throughout the slaughter and kidnapping of lots of of civilians — one thing broadly documented.
Husary’s father is from Palestine and his mom is from Jerusalem, he mentioned. Certainly one of three youngsters, Husary’s dad Victor ran a cigar store of their hometown, and his mother Angela labored for Visa, Husary mentioned. Throughout his hour-long interview with The Submit, his mother served espresso, cherries and oranges.
Since graduating from school, his work historical past has been sporadic at greatest, with jobs resembling dog-walking and “filmmaking.” The self described activist “for the reason that womb” known as himself a photojournalist who’s labored music festivals, together with Coachella.
His arrests date again to not less than 2008, with two misdemeanor circumstances in Alameda County, Calif., information present.
On Could 29, 2020, he claimed he was bicycling close to Barclays Heart throughout a Black Lives Matter protest, and that he was wrongly arrested by officers who smashed his palms with a baton, slammed his head into the bottom and left him with a chipped tooth, based on courtroom information.
He later claimed in a Manhattan Federal Courtroom lawsuit in opposition to the NYPD that his “classic Italian Eighties bicycle,” which he discovered the following day, was totaled and “unsalvageable.”
In January, he was hit with felony arson, theft and hate crimes prices throughout a protest in El Cerrito, Calif., the place allegedly attacked a lady, snatched her Israeli flag and set it on hearth, based on stories and a prison criticism.
He shortly posted a hefty $250,000 bail, authorities mentioned.
Husary claimed “a gaggle” whose identify he didn’t know paid the bail. The Contra Costa County District Lawyer which is prosecuting Husary additionally mentioned they didn’t know who equipped the money.
Husary was additionally busted for driving underneath the affect when he was 18, he mentioned.
Since Oct. 7, Husary has turned a itinerant agitator: social media posts present him taking part and main Hamas-supporting protesters at Columbia and Stanford universities, and taking part in a pro-Hamas demonstration in Washington D.C.
In Could he took a glam shot with mannequin Bella Hadid throughout a pro-Palestine rally in Brooklyn, which he posted to Instagram. Although Hadid too was masked, he made positive to tag her.
In one other weird Instagram submit days earlier, Husary harassed members of Alpha Epsilon Pi, a Jewish school fraternity in Berkeley, CA, and tried to take away an Israeli flag from their frat home. He fled after being confronted by frat bros and fled screaming that “it was a genocidal Nazi flag.”
Husary himself famous in an April 2023 Instagram submit he was “by chance being initiated right into a violent anarchist group” whereas residing in Flatbush, Brooklyn earlier than the pandemic.
Husary set the social media account to personal after chatting with The Submit.
His roommate, who requested anonymity, who lived with Husary on Eldert Avenue, mentioned he usually introduced dwelling a disturbing array of “leftist/anarchist” buddies “all the way down to burn sh-t randomly.
“I received the concept he was fairly simply swayed . . . If I used to be his older brother I might be actually involved about him being with the incorrect group of individuals,” mentioned the roommate.
Husary is just like one other current protestor of privilege, Cody Carlson, the son of rich promoting execs who was arrested throughout the Columbia College mayhem earlier this 12 months, mentioned Hannah Meyers, the director of policing and public security on the Manhattan Institute.
“There’s a transparent parallel there,” Meyers mentioned of Husary and Carlson, noting how each had been beforehand arrested but confronted little consequence for his or her conduct.
Outdoors agitators who disrupt shared areas such because the subway, the place there’s an expectation of easy methods to behave, are a specific drawback, she added.
“The truth that individuals can come from the skin and never face any penalties for disrupting that belief reveals how a lot society has eroded,” she mentioned.
Savitt, in the meantime, continues to be ready for justice.
“For repeat individuals who have a historical past of doing these things, somebody has to place a cease to it. And I hope he will get no matter he wants to go away different individuals alone,” he mentioned. “What I don’t need to occur is for him to stroll away laughing, and placed on a masks once more and to go terrify one other particular person.”
