Speeding owner of ‘Hamas truck’ terrorizing Jewish New York neighborhood uses fake license plates to avoid tickets: records
The owner of the pickup truck whose menacing anti-Semitic facade horrified Williamsburg residents is, records show, a raging lawbreaker who brazenly uses false license plates to avoid traffic tickets.
The souped-up Ford-150 was booked with 51 traffic violations between October 2020 and May 2, including 18 times for speeding in school zones and four times for running a red light, according to a Post analysis of city records.
The vehicle’s owner – identified by his half-brother as Jose Littef, 21 – was hit with $3,622 in fines and late fees for the citations and currently owes $551.94 – including $226.94 for three speed trap citations in default judgment, which incur additional fees.
The black truck’s disturbing exterior features images of bullet holes, blood splatters and blood-stained handprints, which some see as a symbol of the infamous lynching in Ramallah in 2000, in which two Israeli reservists were brutally murdered by a murderous mob.
Since the Post broke the news about the truck two weeks ago, residents said they had not seen it in the neighborhood.
But for months the truck was parked illegally near the corner of North 4th Street and Bedford Avenue in the heart of the hipster paradise and Jewish quarter, with missing registration and inspection stickers and a fake “ghost” sign that read “OH GAZA.”
The Post was only able to verify the truck’s violations after a whistleblower, who declined to give her name, provided a photo of the truck from April, when it still had valid Pennsylvania license plates.
Littef and his half-brother Anas Arman, 34, run the food truck “The Original Caribbean King” on the same corner. Both are of Palestinian descent, according to Arman.
Littef could not be reached for comment, but he and Arman previously claimed that the “OH GAZA” license plate was issued legally.
Michael Safir, a Williamsburg resident who calls the vehicle the “Hamas Truck,” said authorities should crack down on ghost license plates.
“When a souped-up F-150 covered in fake blood and bullet holes gets away without license plates and registration, you wonder how many ‘normal’ cars do the same thing,” Safir said.
