A Cook County Judge on Friday ordered a Pilsen woman held pending trial on charges that she twice attacked and threatened people who tried to stop her from defacing a neighborhood mural of a Mexican man and a Palestinian man resting in a field.

Danielle Wasserman, 37, faces four counts of aggravated battery, two counts of hate crime and a single count of criminal damage. Prosecutors said at Wasserman’s first court appearance Friday afternoon that she had approached people who were painting the mural as early as April 30 and said she knew the mural would be anti-Semitic because the people painting it were wearing Palestinian scarves called keffiyehs. Wasserman’s attorney didn’t immediately return a phone call requesting comment.

On May 9, Wasserman was allegedly dumping trash next to the

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