Professor’s son fantasized about mass execution of Jews, prosecutors allege
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Federal agents say a 21-year-old from New Jersey went from online hate to elaborate fantasies about killing Jews with a sword; it’s part of a larger ISIS-inspired terror plot that the FBI busted before Halloween.
Prosecutors said Milo Sedarat was one of six suspects charged in three states after authorities uncovered plans for a mass shooting in Michigan and plans to travel to Syria to fight on behalf of the Islamic State terrorist group.
“I am the biggest anti-Semite in America,” he allegedly wrote to an unidentified friend, according to the federal criminal complaint. And after widespread anti-Israel protests broke out on college campuses in April due to conflict between the Israeli government and Hamas terrorists, he allegedly wrote to his friend: “[b]”Everybody hates the Jews now…I hope a second genocide happens to them.”
He also allegedly told suspected collaborators that he wanted to kill his mother’s Jewish friends.
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Federal investigators said they found multiple videos purportedly showing Sedarat wearing a mask and wielding a sword. (Obtained by Fox News Digital)
“Brother, my mother’s Jewish friends are brainwashing her… directing her to become a Zionist,” Sedarat allegedly wrote to her friend in January, using shorthand. “I want to kill his friends…I will stab them with my sword.”
“Lowkey is saying the state of Israel instead of Israel,” the friend, who is not named in court documents, told him. “For the prophet Joseph is also Israel.”
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He was apparently concerned about their threats and hid one of his swords, according to the complaint. However, a few weeks later he allegedly shared photos of himself holding multiple knives and swords.
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These black-and-white images are from video that federal investigators allege Sedarat posed with swords after fantasizing about killing Jews with similar weapons. (Obtained by Fox News Digital)
In another conversation, his friend said he saw an Israeli protest nearby.
“I will join the protest and crush like 10 Jews,” came Sedarat’s alleged response.
“The FBI IS JOKING,” the friend wrote.
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It is alleged that Milo Sedarat sent these images to a friend on social media in January 2025. (Obtained by Fox News Digital)
According to another claim, he dreamed of lining up and executing 500 Jewish men in front of their families, then taking their wives as slaves.
Sedarat allegedly claimed that he was prepared to be shot or imprisoned if he could kill a rabbi on the streets of New York, and argued that Hezbollah militants were “very lucky” to be firing “missiles” at Israel.
“It’s not the same but…even with a gun…I want to kill them [a s]word,” he allegedly wrote. “Look into their eyes… While I take their women and stab them.”
In addition to the sword videos, federal investigators found videos from the shooting range, according to court documents. (Obtained by Fox News Digital)
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Federal agents also allegedly gained access to a cloud storage account that contained videos of Sedarat shooting at a range and text messages to another person in which he wrote that he was going to strap a bomb to his chest and blow up an unnamed corporate headquarters in Palo Alto, California.
Federal agents arrived at his father’s home in Montclair, New Jersey, on Tuesday, wearing tactical gear and armored vehicles, to arrest him.
Roger Sedarat walks outside his home on Thursday, Nov. 6, 2025, in Montclair, NJ. Sedarat’s 21-year-old son, Milo Sedarat, was arrested Tuesday as a suspected accessory to the thwarted plot to open fire at LGBT bars in suburban Detroit on Halloween. (Fox News Digital’s Rashid Umar Abbasi)
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He did not enter a plea at his first appearance in federal court Wednesday.
His father, an Iranian American poet and professor of English at Queens College in New York City, did not respond to requests for comment.
