Israeli-Arab activist Yoseph Haddad was involved in a physical altercation with California Congressional candidate Dennis Feitosa on Monday after being challenged while filming the podcast Digital Social Hour.
In a video later released on social media, Feitosa was seen grabbing at Haddad’s hand as the activist gestured while speaking as the two fought verbally.
“You kill children. F*** off, you genocidal f***ing freak. You genocidal f***ing freak,” Feitosa can be heard saying as Haddad tells him, “You can’t do s***, my brother.”
Haddad then pulled Feitosa toward him by his hand, knocking their heads together before the two were forced apart.
Haddad, Feitosa engage in physical altercation outside
The video then showed the two men outside, apparently preparing for a fight. From one angle, Haddad seemed to have picked up several rocks. An apparent member of Feitosa’s entourage approached Haddad’s wife, Emily Schrader, asking her repeatedly if Haddad was her husband as she tried to block the camera he was holding.
The video then showed Haddad walking away, paper in one hand, phone in the other, while a man attempted to hold back Feitosa.
“Be a man,” Feitosa called.
“I wasn’t planning on fighting you anyway,” Haddad said, before Feitosa came up behind him and put him in a headlock. Two others pulled Feitosa off and to the ground before Haddad hit him.
Several hours later, Haddad posted a video on social media of himself telling the camera, “I just got out of the police station in Vegas. I filed a complaint against my attacker. Hopefully, he will get justice very soon.”
In a separate post on X/Twitter, Haddad wrote, “Soon he will be arrested, and I hope he will be prosecuted for it here in the US. People like him have one place they should be – behind bars.”
Alex Carson contributed to this report.