Jewish man in New York accused of harassing Muslim neighbor for months, trying to kill him

A Jewish man is charged with attempted murder and hate crimes in connection with a monthslong harassment and violence campaign against a neighbor who is Muslim, authorities said. Izak Kadosh, of Brooklyn, is charged with more than 40 counts, including second-degree attempted murder, second-degree attempted murder as a hate crime, first-degree assault as a hate crime, second-degree burglary and second-degree burglary as a hate crime, according to a criminal complaint from the Brooklyn district attorney’s office. The motivation behind Kadosh’s attacks is his religious and ethnic differences with his neighbor, according to the complaint. Kadosh told his neighbor that he would break into his apartment and kill him because Kadosh is Jewish and his neighbor is Muslim, the complaint says. Ahmed Gaber / The New York Times via Redux Kadosh was arrested Saturday, two days after he was accused of breaking into his neighbor’s apartment, destroying items inside, covering walls with blue paint and oil and smearing a Quran with feces, the complaint said. The same day, Kadosh also struck his neighbor in the head with a mallet, causing him to be hospitalized and to get staples in his head and a chest tube because of internal bleeding, the complaint says. The neighbor, identified in the complaint as Ahmed Chebira, told The New York Times that the harassment started after he moved into the building in October. Kadosh is accused of slashing his neighbor’s tires, pouring a white substance on his door, punching him in the head and pushing him to the ground, breaking several of his ribs and repeatedly threatening his life, according to the complaint. “Everyone deserves to feel safe in New York, and we will continue to stand up to Islamophobia and all forms of hate,” Hochul wrote on X. A 22-year-old man was arrested and charged with multiple hate crimes this week after, police said, he yelled “Free Palestine” before he slashed a Jewish man in the torso near a synagogue in Brooklyn. – This Summarize was created by Neural News AI (V1). Source: https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/jewish-man-new-york-accused-harassing-muslim-neighbor-months-trying-ki-rcna166839