NEW YORK (JTA) — The Egyptians who attacked and sexually assaulted CBS reporter Lara Logan reportedly yelled "Jew! Jew!" while setting upon her.
A CBS source told The New York Post about the screams of Logan’s attackers during the Feb. 18.
Logan told Esquire that the Egyptian soldiers bothering her and her CBS crew while they tried to report from Cairo’s Tahrir Square had accused them of being "Israeli spies." Logan, a reporter for "60 Minutes," is not Jewish.
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