<p>An 18-year-old man has been arrested for allegedly making <a href="https://nypost.com/2022/11/04/fbi-identifies-suspect-in-threat-against-nj-synagogues/" _mce_href="https://nypost.com/2022/11/04/fbi-identifies-suspect-in-threat-against-nj-synagogues/">broad threats against New Jersey synagogues</a> earlier this month, warning online that he planned to act on his “hatred toward Jews,” federal prosecutors said Thursday.</p>
<p>Omar Alkattoul, 18, has been charged with sharing “a manifesto containing threats to attack a synagogue and Jewish people” on social media, <a rel="noreferrer noopener" href="https://www.justice.gov/usao-nj/pr/middlesex-county-man-charged-communicating-threat-attack-synagogue" _mce_href="https://www.justice.gov/usao-nj/pr/middlesex-county-man-charged-communicating-threat-attack-synagogue" target="_blank">the Department of Justice said</a>.</p>
<p>Alkattoul allegedly shared the document, titled “When Swords Collide,” with someone, telling them he wrote it “in the context of an attack on Jews.”</p>
<p>“I am the attacker and I would like to introduce myself … I am a Muslim with so many regrets but I can assure you this attack is not one of them,” he said, according to federal prosecutors.</p>
<p>Alkattoul sent the document to at least five other people, and allegedly described his motivation in the planned attack as “hatred towards Jews and their heinous acts.”</p>