The dad of the victim in a brutal anti-Semitic attack lashed out Monday at Jewish Democratic leaders Jerry Nadler and Chuck Schumer, accusing them during a contentious House Judiciary Committee field hearing of ignoring his son’s plight while permitting Manhattan DA Alvin Bragg’s soft-on-crime policies.

Barry Borgen told Nadler, the committee’s ranking member, that he was “disappointed” with his fellow “Jewish New Yorker” over his response to the attack on Joseph Borgen, who was brutally beaten while walking to a pro-Israel rally near Times Square in May 2021.

“I called Mr. Schumer’s office, another Jewish New Yorker, numerous times. No one called us back,” Borgen told Nadler, who reps Midtown Manhattan as well as the Upper West Side and Upper East Side, of his treatment by the Senate’s majority leader.

“You have Jewish roots here, and behavior like this enables DA Bragg to just do whatever he wants to do,” the elder Borgen added. “We wouldn’t vote for Mr. Schumer again. … And if I lived in Manhattan, I wouldn’t vote for you, either.”

Joseph Borgen, 30, who was wearing a yarmulke, was attacked and pepper-sprayed by a pack of men who allegedly hurled anti-Semitic slurs at him. The beating left Borgen with a concussion, an injured wrist, a black eye and bruises all over his body.

Bragg triggered widespread outrage after offering one of Borgen’s assailants, 24-year-old Waseem Awawdeh — who allegedly called the victim a “dirty Jew” — a plea deal allowing Awawdeh to serve just six months in prison.

Two of the other defendants in the case, Mohammed Othman and Mahmoud Musa, were offered sentences of three-and-a-half to 15 years in prison and released on bonds of $150,000 and $50,000, respectively. A fourth suspect, Faisal Elezzi, is out on $15,000 cash bail. All three are still facing felony charges of assault as a hate crime in connection with the beating.

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