Even worse, the lawyer himself is Jewish.

Via Times of Israel:

A Jewish attorney representing a suspected would-be terrorist in New York Federal Court has asked the judge to bar Jews from sitting on the jury, saying his client’s anti-Israel rhetoric may sway opinion.

Frederick Cohn, representing Abdel Hameed Shehadeh over charges that he lied to authorities about attempting to join the Taliban, is set to begin jury selection this week.

On Monday, Cohn was quoted in the New York Post as saying that “Given that there’s going to be inflammatory testimony about Jews and Zionism, I think it would be hard for Jews to cast aside any innate antipathy.”

In February, Cohn told federal Judge Eric Vitaliano that he was “not wild about having Jews on the jury in this case.” At the time, his request was blasted by federal prosecutors William Sarratt and James Loonam.

Sarratt told the judge at the time that does not believe magistrate Judge Robert Levy, who will hear the case, “will be ready to violate the Constitution and exclude people from the jury on the basis of their religious beliefs.”

Cohn said that “the American Jewish community is heavily aligned with Israel and Zionism. Here is a guy who is a Muslim, who is opposed to those things.”