GOP lawmaker says he was ‘run off the road' by man with Palestinian flag
Rep. Max Miller said on Thursday that he was 'run off the road' by an aggressor with a Palestinian flag in his home state of Ohio, drawing condemnations from across the aisle.
The Ohio Republican recounted the incident in a post to his account on X on Thursday afternoon, saying that a driver ran his car off the road and threatened the congressmember and his family, before he 'proceeded to show a Palestinian flag' and drove away.
'The deranged hatred in this country has gotten out of control. 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,' Miller wrote in the post, saying that he had filed a police report with both the Capitol Police and the local Ohio station.
'We know who this person is and he will face justice,' Miller added but did not identify the alleged assailant.
Miller, who is Jewish and is a self-described 'staunch defender of Israel,' decried the incident as an act of antisemitism.
'We will not hide,' Miller said in a video appended to the post. 'And I will continue to fight against antisemitism, Islamophobia and all other forms of hate.'
The incident comes as tensions run high amid an increasing number of politically motivated attacks across the political spectrum. Just last weekend, two Democratic Minnesota state lawmakers and their spouses were shot in their homes, leaving two dead and two seriously injured.
House Democratic leadership was quick to denounce the incident, tying it to a 'rise in political violence' in the country.
'We condemn in the strongest possible terms the attack on Congressman Max Miller and his family and are thankful they are safe,' the statement by Reps. Hakeem Jeffries, Katherine Clark and Pete Aguilar read. 'The rise in political violence in this country is unacceptable.'
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