Suspected New Jersey jihadi fantasized about killing Jews with swords in alleged ISIS plot: feds
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Federal authorities have revealed that a 21-year-old individual from New Jersey transitioned from online hate speech to elaborate visions of attacking Jewish people with swords. This alarming development was part of a broader ISIS-inspired terror scheme that the FBI successfully intercepted just before Halloween.

Prosecutors have charged Milo Sedarat among six suspects across three states, following the discovery of plans for mass shootings in Michigan and intentions to travel to Syria to join Islamic State forces.

According to a federal criminal complaint, Sedarat allegedly boasted to an unknown associate, “I’m the biggest anti-Semite in America.” Following the surge of anti-Israel protests on college campuses in April, sparked by the Israeli government and Hamas conflict, he reportedly messaged the same friend, expressing, “[b]ro everyone hates the Jews now…I hope a second holocaust happens to them.”

Sedarat is also accused of expressing to alleged accomplices his desire to murder his mother’s Jewish acquaintances.

A black and white image that allegedly shows a masked Milo Sedarat posing with swords

Federal investigators claim to have found several videos purportedly showing Sedarat masked and brandishing swords, further implicating him in the terror plot.

“Bro my moms Jewish friends r brainwashing her…Into being a Zionist,” Sedarat allegedly wrote to the friend in January, using shorthand. “I wanna kill her friends….I’m gonna stab them with my sword.”

“Lowkey say the state of Israel…Instead of Israel,” the friend, who is not identified in court documents, told him. “Cuz prophet Joseph is also Israel.”

LISTEN: Court unseals audio of suspected Halloween plotter

She was apparently concerned about his threats, according to the complaint, and hid one of his swords. But a few weeks later, he allegedly shared images of himself holding multiple knives and swords.

A black and white combination image allegedly shows Milo Sedarat posing with swords

These black and white images are stills taken from video that federal investigators allege show Sedarat posing with swords after allegedly fantasizing about killing Jews with similar weapons. (Obtained by Fox News Digital)

In another conversation, the friend said he saw an Israeli protest nearby.

“I’m gonna drive into the protest and run over like 10 Jews,” came Sedarat’s alleged reply.

“FBI HES JOKING,” the friend wrote back.

A black and white combination image allegedly shows Milo Sedarat in ISIS-inspired garb and making an ISIS hand gesture while holding a sword, on the left, and swearing a face mask and holding a knife on the right

Milo Sedarat allegedly sent these images to a friend over social media in January 2025. (Obtained by Fox News Digital)

And in another exchange, he allegedly fantasized about lining up and executing 500 Jewish men in front of their families, then taking their wives as slaves.

Sedarat allegedly claimed he was willing to get shot or go to prison if he could kill a rabbi on the streets of New York, and argued that Hezbollah militants are “so lucky” because they launched “missles (sic)” at Israel.

“It’s not the same tho…Even a gun…I wanna kill them with [a s]word,” he allegedly wrote. “Look them in the eyes…As I take their women and stab them.”

A combination of black and white images allegedly showing Milo Sedarat at a shooting range with a rifle and him again wearing a facemask and holding two crossed swords

In addition to the sword videos, federal investigators recovered videos from a shooting range, according to court documents. (Obtained by Fox News Digital)

Federal agents also allegedly gained access to a cloud storage account that contained videos of Sedarat firing at a gun range and text messages in which he wrote to another person that he was going to strap a bomb to his chest and blow up an unnamed company headquarters in Palo Alto, California.

Federal agents arrived at his father’s house in Montclair, New Jersey, on Tuesday in tactical gear and armored vehicles to arrest him.

Detroit Halloween terror plot foiled professor

Roger Sedarat walks outside of his home in Montclair, NJ, on Thursday, November 6, 2025. Sedarat’s son, 21-year-old Milo Sedarat, was arrested on Tuesday as a suspected accomplice in the thwarted plot to shoot up LGBT bars in suburban Detroit on Halloween. (Rashid Umar Abbasi for Fox News Digital)

He did not enter a plea at his first appearance in federal court Wednesday.

His father, an Iranian-American poet and English professor at Queens College in New York City, has not responded to requests for comment.

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