{"id":263080,"date":"2026-08-11T05:56:11","date_gmt":"2026-08-11T05:56:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/263080\/"},"modified":"2026-08-11T05:56:11","modified_gmt":"2026-08-11T05:56:11","slug":"man-pleads-guilty-in-attack-on-jewish-pitt-student-local-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/263080\/","title":{"rendered":"Man pleads guilty in attack on Jewish Pitt student | Local News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ali Alkhaleel, one of six people who physically assaulted and shouted antisemitic slurs at a Jewish University of Pittsburgh students, has pled guilty to conspiracy to obstruct the administration of justice and obstructing the administration of justice. He will be sentenced on Dec. 9.<\/p>\n<p>The Sept. 27, 2024, attack occurred as the student was leaving Phat\u2019s Bar near Semple and Ward Streets in Oakland at approximately 2 a.m. after the men noticed he was wearing a Star of David on a chain. The men shouted, \u201cFree Palestine,\u201d \u201cF\u2014 Jews\u201d and other antisemitic remarks before Muhammed Koc, 27, allegedly assaulted the student.<\/p>\n<p>Alkhaleel was present at the time of the assault, but his plea is only related to his attempts to cover up the crime.<\/p>\n<p>This article was originally published by the Pittsburgh Jewish Chronicle. To continue reading, <a href=\"https:\/\/jewishchronicle.timesofisrael.com\/man-pleads-guilty-in-attack-on-jewish-pitt-student\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">visit jewishchronicle.timesofisrael.com.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ali Alkhaleel, one of six people who physically assaulted and shouted antisemitic slurs at a Jewish University of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":263081,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[43250,43255,16062,11228,94280,6313,6314,6303,24341,73,75,74,33680,43251,43253,43252],"class_list":["post-263080","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pittsburgh","tag-anti-judaism","tag-anti-religious-sentiment","tag-antisemitism","tag-assault","tag-criticism-of-judaism","tag-ethnoreligious-groups","tag-jews-and-judaism","tag-judaism","tag-judaism-related-controversies","tag-pittsburgh","tag-pittsburgh-headlines","tag-pittsburgh-news","tag-prejudice-and-discrimination","tag-religious-discrimination","tag-strangers","tag-xenophobia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/263080","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=263080"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/263080\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/263081"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=263080"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=263080"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=263080"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}