A pair in a suburb of Atlanta are going through penalties after being accused of yelling antisemitic slurs on the father of an Israeli soldier who was killed in 2023.
Mark Bouzyk has been fired after he and his spouse have been taped lobbing insults at David Lubin, the daddy of Sergeant Rose Ida Lubin, 20. A lone soldier and Border Police officer, Lubin was stabbed to loss of life by a 16-year-old Palestinian boy in Jerusalem on Nov. 6, 2023.
Lubin informed Atlanta Information First that the incident started earlier this month as he was distributing stickers honoring his daughter’s reminiscence.
“After I heard her say, your daughter deserved to die and known as me a kike, that’s once I walked throughout the road,” he stated.
In a video of the confrontation posted on X by the watchdog group Cease Antisemitism, Anna Bouzyk, could be heard telling Lubin that his daughter went to Israel “to kill.”
“You’re calling your self a kike, what you’re. You realize what you’re higher than me,” Bouzyk could be heard saying alongside her husband, Mark, who periodically joined within the altercation.
Keep in mind Dunwoody, GA couple Mark & Anna Bouzyk (attainable non US residents) who plastered their yard with “okay*ke” indicators?
They’re now concentrating on the daddy of fallen IDF soldier Rose Lubin – harassing him outdoors his house & calling him a “okay*ke”.
Antisemitic harassment of U.S.… https://t.co/HvymP9yfcy pic.twitter.com/fFw78R8MnU
— StopAntisemitism (@StopAntisemites) August 17, 2025
“You’re a corrupt politician with a daughter within the IDF that went there to kill, and he or she was killed perhaps by pleasant hearth as a result of the Israeli troopers they kill one another on a regular basis, and very properly,” continued Bouzyk.
Bouzyk later confirmed to Atlanta Information First that she had known as Lubin the derogatory time period previous to the filmed confrontation, telling the outlet, “I don’t remorse what I stated, and I’ll it say 1,000,000 occasions once more.”
She blamed Lubin — who ran unsuccessfully for Georgia State Senate in 2024, aiming to unseat a politician who didn’t signal onto an antisemitism invoice — for the interplay.
Sure, that claims “Ok*KES” contained in the Warfare Prison signal.
However this isn’t 1939 Germany.
It’s Womack Highway in Dunwoody, GA.Think about having neighbors like this. pic.twitter.com/l1ei50THOP
— StopAntisemitism (@StopAntisemites) August 14, 2024
“He began calling me a Jew hater. He began calling me names, so I known as him a kike,” Bouzyk informed the outlet. “He was frightening me. He was placing his telephone in my face. He didn’t have the precise to do this, as a result of I went to speak to him about vandalizing.”
Lubin informed the outlet that he heard in Bouzyk “that very same hate that occurred throughout the Holocaust in direction of Jews.” He’s additionally contemplating involving the police, in accordance with the outlet.
Tensions between the neighbors in Dunwoody, Georgia, had been constructing since final 12 months, when Anna and Mark Bouzyk allegedly posted pro-Palestinian indicators of their entrance yard. On one signal posted this month that learn “Cease Funding Warfare Criminals,” the phrase “kikes” was written 24 occasions.
David Lubin, within the gentle blue shirt, attends the funeral of his daughter Rose Elisheva Lubin on the Mount Herzl Army Cemetery in Jerusalem on November 9, 2023. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
Dunwoody Mayor Lynn Deutsch condemned the indicators in a publish on Fb final week, writing that they have been “deeply disturbing and offensive.” She later up to date the publish thanking a neighborhood resident for convincing the householders to take away the indicators.
Mark Bouzyk has since been fired from his job because the co-founder and chief scientific officer at AllaiHealth, an AI-driven affected person medical historical past platform, the corporate introduced on Thursday.
“We’re deeply disturbed and disheartened by the video circulating involving Dr Mark Bouzyk,” CEO Robert Boisjoli stated within the assertion. “The conduct displayed in that footage is reprehensible, fully inconsistent with our values, and has no place in our group or society.”
The incident joins one other latest assault on the household of an American who moved to Israel to affix its military. In St. Louis, a hate crime inquiry was opened by native police after three vehicles have been set ablaze and “Demise to the IDF” was written outdoors of the house of a household whose son just lately accomplished two years serving within the IDF.
Instances of Israel employees contributed to this report.