Scott Hayes, the Framingham man charged with shooting a Newton man during a fight at a pro-Israel rally in Newtonville last year, has set his sights on a resident who recently submitted a letter to the editor to the Newton Beacon regarding a story about his case.

The letter, submitted by Nora Lester Murad, criticized the Beacon for not including Hayes’s past behavior (Hayes has established an online persona posting insults about people who oppose Israel or support Palestinians).

On Tuesday, Hayes, who is not Jewish but has made a name for himself as a pro-Israel activist in the region, posted on X (formerly Twitter) about Lester Murad, throwing a barrage of insults including a claim that she has a low IQ and supports terrorists.

“Her and her communist friends cheered when I was attacked by a terrorist supporter,” Hayes writes in the post—which had been retweeted almost a dozen times as of Thursday morning—before asking people to “disrupt” SAWA Newton, a group that promotes peace and support for Palestinians, on social media.

And in the same post, he mulls a libel suit against Lester Murad. He tagged groups known for targeting and doxxing people who oppose Israel or support Palestinians (including Betar USA, the group that started a boycott of Newton businesses when Hayes was charged for the shooting last September).

Lester Murad said she has received an unsigned letter in the mail trying to intimidate her and has notified the Newton police and Middlesex District Attorney Marian Ryan’s office.

Hayes’s X account is full of rants against Palestinian supporters and about his own court case. He lashes out against ADL New England and praises Betar USA for “checking in on” him throughout the case.

And he posted what he calls his “official statement” about his court case on X, too, the day his case was resolved with a couple months of probation (the charges will be dropped in September if he obeys probation conditions).

“Today’s agreement was the second best option,” that post reads. “The first would have been a full dismissal of the charges immediately but the DA played politics with my case instead of following the law. The commonwealth brought a very weak case weak case that in most states wouldn’t have made it this far along the process.”

Hayes claims the prosecution’s case relied entirely on old social media posts. He had created a name for himself as a pro-Israel agitator, posting photos of Palestinian supporters with insults about their weight, clothes, etc., as well as a photo of a gun with the caption reading “Hey Jew Haters. Bring it.”

On Sept. 12, Hayes was in Newton at a pro-Israel rally when Caleb Gannon, a Newton man, walked by and argued with the rally participants about Israel. Gannon is seen on video running across the street and getting into a physical altercation with Hayes before a gunshot is heard.

“I know that what I did on 9/12/24 was right,” Hayes’s statement on X continues. “I have no regrets for my actions that day as it saved my friends [sic] lives. My attacker was actively trying to take my firearm and I am sure he would have committed murder if he had succeeded.”

Gannon was also charged with assault after the incident.

Hayes is also not a fan of Mayor Ruthanne Fuller. In another post, he calls her an “asajew” for not reacting strongly enough to last weekend’s recent murder at an Israeli embassy and for allowing Gannon to remain free after the Sept. 12 incident.

Mayors do not decide criminal sentencing, and nor do mayors decide who is or is not allowed to be in a city.