After allegedly threatening to murder Jewish and Israeli residents of New York City, a Queens man was indicted on Tuesday for making terroristic threats, according to the Queens County District Attorney’s Office.
Rosedale neighborhood resident Nathan White allegedly claimed on social media to have beaten an Israeli on the NYC subway and threatened that if he ran “into another Israeli in NYC alone in the dark, you are dead.”
“Imma [sic] kill all you filthy Zionist[s]! I curse all of you, and death will come to you soon by me,” White reportedly said on X/Twitter in a series of posts from November 7 to 9.
“Israel, the Zionist, the Jews must pay with their lives for their barbarism, people.” White also allegedly threatened to kill all federal agents and New York Police Department officers.
The statements attributed to White matched a social media handle known as “Abdullah,” who joined X in November 2023 and described himself as “a soldier of Allah.”
The account primarily focused on Israel and Jews, describing Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu as “Satanyahu” and calling for the Mossad to get out of NYC before he “splattered” all “you filthy Zionist scum.”
The X account, which also had the tag “BXSniper,” also expressed animosity toward white people and US President Donald Trump, who was described as a devil and pedophile.
White’s reported arrest on November 10 is the same date that the Abdullah account ceased to post on X.
Suspect charged with making terroristic threats
The 54-year-old suspect was charged with making a terroristic threat as a hate crime, making a terroristic threat, and aggravated harassment in the second degree. He is set to face trial on February 19, and if convicted of the top charge, faces up to 15 years in prison.
“As alleged, the defendant used his social media accounts to issue explicit threats targeting Jewish and Israeli New Yorkers, in addition to members of the NYPD and federal law enforcement,” District Attorney Melinda Katz said in a statement.
“At a time when antisemitic vitriol is rising at an alarming rate, we know that words of hate often escalate into real-world violence.”
The news of White’s indictment came as the NYPD released statistics that showed that in 2025, Jews were targeted more than every other demographic combined in reported hate crime statistics.
Total incidents were down by three percent compared to 2024, but still increased as a share of all hate crime incidents by 5.7 percentage points and by an 11% relative increase.
Fifty percent of all reported hate crimes in 2025 were against Jews, according to the NYPD.