On Friday, 26-year-old Hamas supporter Zaid Mohammed Mahdawi found out, and a judge sentenced him to 10 days in a federal pen for vandalizing historic monuments and covering them in red paint with slogans like “Hamas is Comin.”

Hamas is not coming, and they’re not going to break you out, Zaid:

Zaid Mahdawi defaced a national monument with hate-filled graffiti and now faces the consequences. Vandalism in the name of extremism won’t be tolerated. If you come to D.C. to destroy, you’ll pay. Literally. Make D.C. Safe AND Beautiful. pic.twitter.com/CfksiDLJvM

— U.S. Attorney Ed Martin (@USAEdMartin) April 4, 2025

He’s also going to have to perform a whole bunch of community service:

Zaid Mohammed Mahdawi, 26, the president of the Richmond, Va., chapter of American Muslims for Palestine, will also have to pay $1,500 in restitution and serve 80 hours of community service following his release, US District Judge James Boasberg ruled Friday.

Mahdawi pleaded guilty to destruction of government property, a misdemeanor, for his actions during July protests against visiting Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

Weirdly, the judge in the case was none other than James Boasberg, the jurist who seemingly considers himself the arbiter of federal policy in the United States. He’s the one who in March ordered the Trump administration’s deportation of violent illegal gangbangers to El Salvador to stop, and he went so far as to order that a plane carrying them immediately turn around (Team Trump ignored him and the flight proceeded as planned). Boasberg’s feelings were hurt and there’s been endless legal back and forth since.