Anti-Israel Wall Street analyst pays big time after he's caught on video telling Jewish American to 'go back to your country'



An anti-Israel Wall Street analyst just paid a huge price after he was caught on video telling a Jewish American to "go back to your country" and covering Israeli hostage posters with signs calling Israel an “apartheid state” that commits “genocide."

Journalist Andy Ngo identified the male caught on the video as Kurush Mistry. The New York Post — which called Mistry a Wall Street analyst — reported that sources confirmed his identity to the Financial Times.

Ngo soon added that Freepoint Commodities fired Mistry. Freepoint said in a Nov. 11 statement that an "individual involved" in a "recent antisemitic incident reported on social media ... is no longer associated with Freepoint” and that the company “does not tolerate discrimination and hate speech directed against any group.”

Here's the video, which Ngo said was recorded Nov. 9. Content warning: Language:

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Ngo identified the woman with Mistry as his wife, Shailja Gupta, and said they're both Indian nationals. Ngo added that he received the video from the person who recorded it and that the confrontation took place on Manhattan's Upper West Side at 68th Street and Riverside Boulevard.

'Go back to your country!'

The man recording the video asked the man covering up posters of Israeli hostages for his name, and the woman with him said, “None of your f***ing business, dude. F*** off!” as they both gave the middle finger to the man recording the video.

The man in the clip soon held up the flyer being used to cover the Israeli hostage posters, which read, “Israel is an apartheid state and commits genocide.”

Image source: X video screenshot via @MrAndyNgo

“Go live in Israel … go back to your country!” he told the man recording the video, who soon replied, “I’m an American. ... I’m an American Jew.”

Oddly, the woman later claimed she's from "Palestine" and called the man recording the video an “uneducated prick” for saying it's not a country. She also accused Israelis of being “rapists" and claimed that she'd "already proved" the assertion.

Image source: X video screenshot via @MrAndyNgo

Anything else?

Ngo in his X posts noted that Mistry had been a New York City-based oil analyst with Freepoint. The Post said Freepoint is based in Stamford, Connecticut, and that Mistry — according to his LinkedIn profile, which was down as of Wednesday afternoon — had worked there for nine years and was previously employed by Morgan Stanley, Barclays, and Lehman Brothers.

The paper added that Mistry refused to meet with reporters Wednesday and that the doorman "outside his luxury apartment building — which includes amenities such as a steam room, Pilates studio, and a large, heated indoor pool — bore the brunt of his ire."

The doorman was quoted by the Post as saying, "I didn’t let them in. You don’t have to yell at me,” as he pulled a phone away from his ear.

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KJP embarrasses herself when she fumbles easy question about anti-Israel protesters ripping down hostage posters



White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre issued a clarification Tuesday after she failed to dunk a layup question.

NBC News correspondent Peter Alexander asked Jean-Pierre at the press briefing about the viral videos of anti-Israel protesters ripping down posters of people kidnapped and held hostage by Hamas. The question was simple: Does the Biden administration condemn these actions or view them as a "peaceful protest"?

But Jean-Pierre completely fumbled the ball.

After some back-and-forth with Alexander, she answered, "I'm just not going to go into specifics on that particular thing."

Instead, Jean-Pierre said that top administration officials are "aware" of "violent protests and threats" — though she failed to provide any details about which protests or which threats — that they believe are "deeply concerning."

In a follow-up question, Alexander tried to gift Jean-Pierre an easy answer, asking if the "deeply concerning" behavior that she cited refers to anti-Israel protesters yanking down hostage posters. But Jean-Pierre rejected his kindness and repeated her previous answer about an "increased volume" of threats toward "the Jewish community to the Arab-American community, to the Muslim communities."

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Jean-Pierre's answers were so bad that she was forced to issue a clarification after the briefing ended.

"As a result of the Hamas terrorist attacks, communities and families are grieving. For the past month, the families of those who have been taken hostage have lived in agony. Tearing down pictures of their loved ones — who are being held hostage by Hamas — is wrong and hurtful," she said.

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It should go without saying: It's embarrassing that a clarification needed to be issued. It's not difficult activate a moral backbone when someone asks you to defend innocent lives that are in the hands of terrorists.

But it similarly required Alexander to ask Jean-Pierre multiple times about Palestinian activists who defaced the White House property over the weekend. However, she at least gave a definitive answer to his question about whether it was "appropriate" to do that, saying, "Obviously not."

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