The Brooklyn Supreme Court has convicted a man of strangulation and assault as a hate crime for his 2018 attack on a rabbi in the neighborhood of East Flatbush, New York Daily News reported.

James Vincent, 44, was found guilty on Wednesday of randomly attacking Rabbi Menachem Moskowitz, 52, and shouting anti-Semitic slurs as he tried to strangle the victim.

Vincent then ran up behind Moskowitz and began choking and punching the rabbi. Moskowitz suffered a black eye and fractured ribs before a few bystanders stopped the attack.

The victim told the publication days after the attack, “He said, ‘You f—ing Jews! You stole my money! I gotta kill you!’”

Vincent will be sentenced on Dec. 13 and could face up to 15 years in prison.

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