MTA Boss Yells ‘F Israel' To UWS Protester With Israeli Flag: Report

UPPER WEST SIDE, NY - An MTA supervisor blasted on multiple pro-Israel social media pages confirmed to the New York Post he was, in fact, the man captured in photos and videos shouting “f--- Israel” and flipping the bird to a woman waving an Israeli flag earlier this month.

Kenneth Foster, 57, was walking down Columbus Avenue on the Upper West Side on Nov. 11 with his mother when the woman waving the Israel flag “almost hit” him, he told the New York Post.

“I stated, ‘Why are you waving that flag that is part of an apartheid state?'” Foster told the publication.

“I said, ‘F you’ and ‘F Israel.’ I didn’t say nothing about Jews to her . . . now I have to defend myself,” he added.

Images of Foster circulated last week on social media pages like Jew Hate Database and Jewish Lives Matter, with captions alleging the MTA boss was intimidating protesters putting up Israeli hostage posters.

Foster told The Post he was unaware of any such posters.

“I’m against oppression of anybody — because I’m black, so I know what oppression is,” he told the outlet, adding he has nothing against Jewish people and should’ve “just walked away.”

MTA spokesperson Tim Minton told The New York Post the agency is investigating the incident “to determine all the facts.”

Foster has worked for the MTA for over 36 years, according to his LinkedIn profile, rising through the ranks of maintenance supervisor to now-superintendent of third rail operations since 2014. He separately owns and manages MadBunch Entertainment, a self-described “multimedia entertainment company.”