Julia Salazar and David Keyes: 5 quick facts to know

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Julia Salazar

Julia Salazar is a candidate for the Senate of the State of New York. Salazar is no stranger to the controversy: she was assaulted in the press for allegedly lied about her social class, her immigration status and even her religion. Recently, court documents revealed that Salazar was involved in a lengthy legal battle with former big-league woman Keith Hernandez, who once lived in the same neighborhood as Salazar's mother.

Today, Salazar announced on Twitter that she had already been sexually assaulted by David Keyes, spokesman for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Salazar says she was publicly informed of the aggression today because she became aware that the story was about to appear in the media. Late Tuesday afternoon, the Daily Caller published an article on the alleged assault. You can read the story of Daily Caller here. And you can read Salazar's statement right here.

Here is what you need to know about Julia Salazar and David Keyes:

1. Salazar's campaign says she never wanted aggression to be made public

A spokeswoman for Julia Salazar's campaign told Heavy that she would never have spoken of the aggression if she had not been looking for the Daily Caller newspaper. The spokesman, Michael Kinnucan, said, "Julia posted on her Facebook Facebook wall of aggression in 2016, and then deleted it almost immediately when she discovered that someone one had filmed it; she did not intend to make herself known publicly, but was debated by a Daily Caller press inquiry this morning. "

Salazar first tweeted about the incident, and the next media report, at 8:45 am Tuesday morning. The Daily Caller report came out late Tuesday afternoon. You can read it here.

On the night of the alleged assault, reports the Daily Caller, Salazar traveled with Keyes to his apartment after a meeting in which they discussed a story he had written about Israel. There, he allegedly forced himself against her.

"I resisted, I tried to laugh, I tried to be polite," she wrote in a deleted message from her Facebook page, "but he has persisted. Many times. In fact, I told him "no, I do not prefer" at least a dozen times. Frankly, I really was not interested in physical contact with this guy,

"Finally, after insisting on leaving his apartment several times, he forced me physically," she continued. "After submitting to him, he finally allowed me to leave. I remember jumping into the elevator and going down to the ground floor so that I could wipe my face with a tissue.

2. In 2016, an anonymous woman posted on Facebook about the attack by David Keyes

Julia Salazar gave no details about this alleged sexual assault in her tweet this morning. But she seemed to imply that she was not the only woman abused by David Keyes. In a long tweet On the morning of September 11, Salazar wrote: "I want to confirm that David Keyes, the spokesman for Israel's prime minister for foreign media, has been sexually assaulted. This story [a reference to the article which Salazar says is about to appear about her case] seems to be an effort to cast doubt on my accusations, and on those of other women, against Keyes.

In 2016, Salazar wrote – and then quickly deleted – an article on her Facebook wall in which she stated that Keyes had assaulted her in Manhattan in 2013. Her post made headlines in Israel because Keyes was named spokesman for Prime Minister Netanyahu.

Salazar went to Israel while she was a student at Columbia University. When she was in her first year, Salazar, 19, was the president of the Columbia chapter of a group called Christians United for Israel. She joined the group during a trip to the Holy Land. That would be eight years ago now. On his return from Israel, Salazar, once a staunch defender of Israel, became publicly sympathetic to the fate of the Palestinians.

3. Salazar said that she was going public about the aggression to prepare for a future media report

Salazar said she was speaking publicly about the assault because she wanted to go out earlier than expected in the Daily Caller about this attack. The story of Daily Caller was finally aired late Tuesday afternoon, a few hours after Salazar tweeted about the problem. You can read the daily call track here.

Voters in New York will go to the polls on Thursday, September 13 to choose candidates for the state senate (among other races voted that day). There are no polls in the race, so it's impossible to know if Salazar is doing well against his opponent, Democrat Martin Dilan, 16 years old. But Salazar has had a lot of success in the press and recently, she lost the approval of the Union of Citizens after she revealed that she had lied about her degree at Columbia University. Salazar actually went to Columbia, but gave up before graduating.

Martin Dilan described him as a politician who is willing to say what it takes to be elected, but said he did not think voters would be fooled. "Someone who was Republican last year, a conservative, pro-life, anti-abortion – now wants to be more progressive than me? I do not think so, said Dilan.

4. Facebook posting of sexual assault was removed shortly after publication in 2016

David Keyes, an Israeli-born American, was named Benjamin Netanyahu's spokesperson in 2016. Right after his appointment, a woman wrote in an anonymous post on Facebook that Keyes had sexually assaulted her in her apartment in Manhattan in 2013. The woman said that after starting to talk about the incident, two other women had told her that they had also been assaulted by Keyes. She deleted her message, but it was recorded, in part, in a screen capture.

The NYPD stated at the time that it had no record of a complaint ever filed against David Keyes.

The Times of Israel claims that the woman was a supporter of the Boycott and Divestment movement, or BDS, which seeks to harm the Israeli economy by boycotting Israeli businesses. She was also arrested during a demonstration in New York against Israel's war with Hamas in 2014. Salazar is also a supporter of the BDS movement.

5. Keyes Said explains that Salazar's accusation is just another example of his "dishonesty"

David Keyes told The Times of Israel on Tuesday that there was no truth about Salazar's charges against him. "This false accusation is made by someone who has been repeatedly dishonest about his own life. This is another example of his dishonesty, "he said.

In 2016, when the Facebook publication accused him of assaulting a woman in Manhattan, Keyes said he had actually met this woman. But he called their meeting completely consensual. "I completely deny this accusation, there was absolutely no restraint during our meeting," said an Israeli military radio official at the time.

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