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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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\u2019s office.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The motivation behind Kadosh\u2019s attacks is his religious and ethnic differences with his neighbor, according to the complaint.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Kadosh was arrested Saturday, two days after he was accused of breaking into his neighbor\u2019s apartment, destroying items inside, covering walls with blue paint and oil and smearing a Quran with feces, the complaint said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Kadosh pleaded not guilty Monday in Kings County Criminal Court. Bail was set at $25,000 cash or $125,000 bond, prosecutors said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
A public defender representing Kadosh did not immediately respond to a request for comment Thursday afternoon.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The neighbor, identified in the complaint as Ahmed Chebira, told The New York Times<\/a> that the harassment started after he moved into the building in October.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cI told him, leave me alone,\u201d Chebira told the Times on Wednesday. \u201cEveryone has their own religion in America; I don\u2019t have a problem with anyone.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n He said that he feared Kadosh would be outside the hospital when he was discharged and that he was relieved he had been arrested.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The complaint details allegations dating to early March. 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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n New York Gov. Kathy Hochul called the allegations “despicable.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n “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>. “Hate has no place in our state.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n Antisemitic<\/a> and Islamophobic\u2002<\/a>attacks have increased in the country since the Oct. 7 Hamas attack on Israel and Israel’s subsequent war on Hamas in Gaza.<\/p>\n\n\n\n A<\/a>\u200222-year-old man was arrested and charged with multiple hate crimes\u2002<\/a>this week after, police said, he yelled \u201cFree Palestine\u201d before he slashed a Jewish man in the torso near a synagogue in Brooklyn.<\/p>\n\n\n\n