An unhinged, Israel-hating canine walker who lives along with his TV-actress sister on the Higher West Aspect is terrorizing the neighborhood, repeatedly ripping down Israeli hostage posters and allegedly assaulting anybody who dares get in his method, The Publish has realized.
Since Hamas’ Oct. 7, 2023 terror assault on Israel, Mackenzie Watson – dubbed “MackNazi” by a lot of his neighbors — has waged a one-man struggle on anybody posting hostage flyers or eradicating pro-Palestine stickers, based on courtroom information and a few of his alleged victims.
“He actually simply hates Jews,” stated a 48-year-old resident who’s watched Watson’s antics and estimated at the very least 100 Higher West Siders “have had dangerous run-ins with him.”
She additionally stated Watson — who lives within the nabe along with his 29-year-old sister Jamie Linn Watson, who’s appeared in FX’s “What We Do within the Shadows” and the Judd Apatow flick “Please Don’t Destroy: The Treasure of Foggy” — appears extra fearful about ripping down posters than caring for the pooches he walks.
“He’ll typically have 4 canines; they’re hooked to his waist, and he’s utilizing each arms on the identical time to only pull off the stickers at each nook,” the girl added.
Watson’s most up-to-date outbursts embody a June incident the place he tailed and harassed a 15-year-old lady and her mother, 56, after the teenager ripped off one his “antisemitic” stop-genocide stickers from a lamp put up on the nook of West 103rd Avenue and West Finish Avenue, the fearful mom recalled.
Watson then shoved his telephone digicam of their faces earlier than stalking them for 5 blocks as they tried to flee him, she stated.
“I don’t give a s–t in regards to the hostages, and I don’t give a shit in regards to the hundreds of useless infants,” the mother recalled Watson screaming. “F–okay you, piece of s–t! Go f–okay your self! Eat s–t, Zionists! Go kill your self!”
The mom later that day went to the NYPD’s twenty fourth Precinct to file a criticism in opposition to Watson, solely to run into Gary Paul — one other neighbor doing the identical factor.
Paul, a 71-year-old architect, instructed The Publish he’s had a number of hostile encounters with Watson over the stickers and signage — at the very least two of which drove the anti-Israel maniac to observe him a number of blocks.
“It’s not protected for us,”stated Paul.
In April, Watson sadistically caught his telephone digicam within the face of a 45-year-old girl posting stickers elevating consciousness of Israeli and American hostages taken captive by Hamas — and screamed in her face “Zionist bitch! Zionist c—t!”
The lady stated she now carries pepper spray in case she ever runs into him once more.
“I shouldn’t should reside this manner,” she stated.
In November 2023, he shoved Joseph Goodrich, 32, to the bottom, punched him and dislocated his shoulder — after Goodrich tried to cease the anti-Israel radical from tearing down hostage posters, based on a prison criticism and the sufferer’s lawyer, Peter Gordon.
Watson was charged with assault, however soft-on-crime Manhattan District Lawyer Alvin Bragg’s workplace gave him a slap on the wrist, permitting him in June to plea discount to a conditional discharge on a lesser cost of second-degree harassment if Watson accomplished anger administration programs and stored out of hassle for a yr.
Lower than two months later, Watson violated the plea deal by being arrested and charged with allegedly clawing the face and kicking the shin of a 59-year-old man, who intervened in a squabble between him and a girl who objected to the canine walker tearing down a hostage poster on Broadway and West one centesimal Avenue, based on the NYPD and a prison criticism.
The DA’s workplace charged Watson with assault and harassment and requested a decide void the conditional discharge within the preliminary assault case, based on courtroom information.
At his dwelling on Friday, Watson would solely say “there’s a genocide occurring” and “that’s what we must be involved about” earlier than shutting the door on a reporter.
Watson is among the many newest in a protracted checklist of New Yorkers who’ve come underneath hearth since Hamas’ terror assault 14 months in the past for tearing down Israeli hostage posters and comparable signage, together with an Adam administration staffer whose job consists of bridging “cultural divides.”
After The Publish’s expose final week on Nallah Sutherland — who initially was solely required to take multicultural coaching lessons and had a disciplinary word put in her work file — Mayor Eric Adams intervened and indefinitely suspended her with out pay.
Extra reporting by Tina Moore
