Far-right Israeli lawmaker sparks outrage by snatching protester's megaphone in NYC

Simcha Rothman, a member of Israel's governing coalition and chairman of the Knesset Law, Justice and Constitution committee, was seen forcibly grabbing a megaphone from a protester while walking the streets of New York City on Friday evening. The incident led to a criminal complaint being filed against him, which was ultimately closed by the NYPD on Saturday. Protesters from UnXeptable, a grassroots network of Israeli expats, said that Rothman snatched the megaphone from a Columbia graduate student and that she intended to file a police report against Rothman with New York City police.