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WASHINGTON, June 19 (Reuters) – The New York City Police Department said on Thursday its hate crime unit was probing anti-Muslim threats against mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani, and in another incident U.S. Representative Max Miller of Ohio said he was “run off the road” by a driver with a Palestinian flag.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
These marked the latest U.S. incidents to raise concerns about a rise in hate against Americans of Muslim, Arab<\/u><\/a>, Jewish, Israeli<\/u><\/a> and Palestinian heritage<\/u><\/a> since the start of Israel’s war in Gaza<\/u><\/a> in late 2023.<\/p>\n\n\n\n An NYPD spokesperson said police received reports that on Wednesday at 9:45 a.m., Mamdani, a Democratic state assembly member and mayoral candidate, reported that he “received four phone voicemails, on various dates, making threatening anti-Muslim statements by an unknown individual.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n There have not been any arrests so far and an investigation remained ongoing, the NYPD said. The New York Daily News reported a man threatened to blow up Mamdani’s car. Mamdani’s campaign said he was participating in the police probe.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Separately, Republican U.S. Representative Max Miller from Ohio said on X he was “run off the road” in the city of Rocky River on Thursday, while he and his family were threatened by a person with a Palestinian flag. He said he had filed a police report.<\/p>\n\n\n\n “Today I was run off the road in Rocky River, and the life of me and my family was threatened by a person who proceeded to show a Palestinian flag before taking off,” said Miller, who is Jewish and pro-Israeli. He labeled the incident, which was also condemned by top congressional Democrats, as antisemitic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Recent incidents that raised alarm over antisemitism and anti-Israel attitudes in the U.S. include a fatal shooting<\/u><\/a> of two Israeli embassy employees in Washington and a Colorado attack that left eight people wounded<\/u><\/a> when a suspect threw incendiary devices into a pro-Israeli crowd.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Incidents raising alarm about anti-Muslim and anti-Palestinian prejudice include the fatal stabbing<\/u><\/a> of a 6-year-old Palestinian child in Illinois, the attempted drowning<\/u><\/a> of a 3-year-old Palestinian American girl in Texas and a violent mob attack<\/u><\/a> on pro-Palestinian protesters in California.<\/p>\n\n\n\n New York City Mayor Eric Adams said on Thursday, opens new tab<\/u><\/a> a suspect was taken into custody and “charged with multiple counts of assault and aggravated harassment as hate crimes” in an alleged attack against a Muslim woman who was beaten on a subway train.<\/p>\n\n\n\n