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 means, The Submit has realized.
Since Hamas’ Oct. 7, 2023 terror assault on Israel, Mackenzie Watson – dubbed “MackNazi” by lots of his neighbors — has waged a one-man warfare on anybody posting hostage flyers or eradicating pro-Palestine stickers, in accordance with court docket data and a few of his alleged victims.
“He really just hates Jews,” stated a 48-year-old resident who’s watched Watson’s antics and estimated no less than 100 Higher West Siders “have had bad 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 in 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 sometimes have four dogs; they’re hooked to his waist, and he’s using both hands at the same time to just pull off the stickers at every corner,” the lady added.
Watson’s most up-to-date outbursts embrace 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 submit on the nook of West 103rd Road and West Finish Avenue, the fearful mom recalled.
Watson then shoved his telephone digital camera 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 about the hostages, and I don’t give a shit about the thousands of dead babies,” the mother recalled Watson screaming. “F–k you, piece of s–t! Go f–k yourself! Eat s–t, Zionists! Go kill yourself!”
The mom later that day went to the NYPD’s twenty fourth Precinct to file a grievance 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 Submit he’s had a number of hostile encounters with Watson over the stickers and signage — no less than two of which drove the anti-Israel maniac to comply with him a number of blocks.
“It’s not safe for us,”stated Paul.
In April, Watson sadistically caught his telephone digital camera 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 girl stated she now carries pepper spray in case she ever runs into him once more.
“I shouldn’t have to live this way,” 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, in accordance with a felony grievance and the sufferer’s lawyer, Peter Gordon.
Watson was charged with assault, however soft-on-crime Manhattan District Legal professional Alvin Bragg’s workplace gave him a slap on the wrist, permitting him in June to plea cut price 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 lady who objected to the canine walker tearing down a hostage poster on Broadway and West a hundredth Road, in accordance with the NYPD and a felony grievance.
The DA’s workplace charged Watson with assault and harassment and requested a choose void the conditional discharge within the preliminary assault case, in accordance with court docket data.
At his dwelling on Friday, Watson would solely say “there’s a genocide going on” and “that’s what we should be concerned about” earlier than shutting the door on a reporter.
Watson is among the many newest in an extended record of New Yorkers who’ve come underneath fireplace 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 contains bridging “cultural divides.”
After The Submit’s expose final week on Nallah Sutherland — who initially was solely required to take multicultural coaching courses and had a disciplinary observe put in her work file — Mayor Eric Adams intervened and indefinitely suspended her with out pay.
Extra reporting by Tina Moore
