The craven, masked pro-Palestine protester who made the front page of The Post after he allegedly accosted a Jewish man on the subway is a privileged, bicoastal agitator who still lives with mommy and daddy in their $1.8 million California home
Christopher Khamis Victor Husary is an America-hating, former business major with arrests tied to protests in California and NYC — where he even scored a $17,000 payday last month after he claimed he was beaten by cops during a 2020 Black Lives Matter protest in Brooklyn, records show.
His identity was first uncovered by the activist organization Jew Hate Database based on Husary’s own social media posts — where he all but admitted he was the person on The Post’s June 15 cover.
“Goes to ny for a day,” Husary, 36, wrote alongside an Instagram post sharing the Post front page. “I can smell a baby killer from a mile away …. call Homeland Security… i went through jfk with this shirt & had all the patriots panicked af.
He made no bones about his twisted allegiances Friday when confronted by The Post at his family’s five-bedroom home in the tony San Francisco suburb of Hayward.
“Israel is a terror organization and so is America. The number one terrorist is America,” he declared from his childhood bedroom. Hanging on a curtain rod was the yellow Hezbollah T-shirt he wore June 10 aboard a subway train when he threatened a Jewish stranger who had just visited an exhibit memorializing the victims of the Oct. 7 Hamas attack.
The incident on the subway came shortly after a masked mob of pro-Hamas demonstrators swarmed the exhibit earlier that day chanting, “Long Live the Intifada,” then flooded the subways, where they demanded “Zionists” raise their hands and warned, “This is your chance to get out.”
Josh Savitt, who was wearing a yarmulke, said Husary snarled, “Bro, if you only knew who I was.”
Husary claimed he wasn’t at the Nova exhibit and denied threatening Savitt, insisting the White Plains attorney was the aggressor.
“I caught him taking my photo of my four friends, and he wasn’t apologetic about it,” Husary claimed, saying he was with four women at the time. “I felt the need to protect them. I’m a protector. I protect women and children. That’s a real man’s job. … He’s harassing us.
“The guy who stopped me and my friends is a terrorist. And then he lies and says I made a gun gesture.
“I put my hand up because he was following and harassing us. I caught him,” said Husary, who has not been arrested in the incident.
“I don’t threaten Jews,” claimed Husary, who denied Hamas committed mass rapes during the slaughter and kidnapping of hundreds of civilians — something widely documented.
Husary’s father is from Palestine and his mother is from Jerusalem, he said. One of three kids, Husary’s dad Victor ran a cigar shop in their hometown, and his mom Angela worked for Visa, Husary said. During his hour-long interview with The Post, his mom served coffee, cherries and oranges.
Since graduating from college, his work history has been sporadic at best, with jobs such as dog-walking and “filmmaking.” The self described activist “since the womb” called himself a photojournalist who’s worked music festivals, including Coachella.
His arrests date back to at least 2008, with two misdemeanor cases in Alameda County, Calif., records show.
On May 29, 2020, he claimed he was bicycling near Barclays Center during a Black Lives Matter protest, and that he was wrongly arrested by officers who smashed his hands with a baton, slammed his head into the ground and left him with a chipped tooth, according to court records.
He later claimed in a Manhattan Federal Court lawsuit against the NYPD that his “vintage Italian 1980s bicycle,” which he found the next day, was totaled and “unsalvageable.”
In January, he was hit with felony arson, robbery and hate crimes charges during a protest in El Cerrito, Calif., where allegedly attacked a woman, snatched her Israeli flag and set it on fire, according to reports and a criminal complaint.
He quickly posted a hefty $250,000 bail, authorities said.
Husary claimed “a group” whose name he didn’t know paid the bail. The Contra Costa County District Attorney which is prosecuting Husary also said they didn’t know who supplied the cash.
Husary was also busted for driving under the influence when he was 18, he said.
Since Oct. 7, Husary has became a itinerant agitator: social media posts show him participating and leading Hamas-supporting protesters at Columbia and Stanford universities, and participating in a pro-Hamas demonstration in Washington D.C.
In May he took a glam shot with model Bella Hadid during a pro-Palestine rally in Brooklyn, which he posted to Instagram. Though Hadid too was masked, he made sure to tag her.
In another bizarre Instagram post days earlier, Husary harassed members of Alpha Epsilon Pi, a Jewish college fraternity in Berkeley, CA, and attempted to remove an Israeli flag from their frat house. He fled after being confronted by frat bros and fled screaming that “it was a genocidal Nazi flag.”
Husary himself noted in an April 2023 Instagram post he was “accidentally being initiated into a violent anarchist community” while living in Flatbush, Brooklyn before the pandemic.
Husary set the social media account to private after speaking to The Post.
His roommate, who requested anonymity, who lived with Husary on Eldert Street, said he often brought home a disturbing array of “leftist/anarchist” friends “down to burn sh-t randomly.
“I got the idea that he was pretty easily swayed . . . If I was his older brother I would be really concerned about him being with the wrong group of people,” said the roommate.
Husary is similar to another recent protestor of privilege, Cody Carlson, the son of wealthy advertising execs who was arrested during the Columbia University mayhem earlier this year, said Hannah Meyers, the director of policing and public safety at the Manhattan Institute.
“There’s a clear parallel there,” Meyers said of Husary and Carlson, noting how both had been previously arrested yet faced little consequence for their behavior.
Outside agitators who disrupt shared spaces such as the subway, where there is an expectation of how to behave, are a particular problem, she added.
“The fact that people can come from the outside and not face any consequences for disrupting that trust shows how much society has eroded,” she said.
Savitt, meanwhile, is still waiting for justice.
“For repeat people who have a history of doing this stuff, someone has to put a stop to it. And I hope he gets whatever he needs to leave other people alone,” he said. “What I don’t want to happen is for him to walk away laughing, and put on a mask again and to go terrify another person.”
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