A Brooklyn man’s anti-vegan grudge led him to threaten a mass taking pictures and stabbing at the upstate Woodstock Fruit Competition if its organizers didn’t cancel the party or prevent individuals he hated from attending, the feds say.

William Swift, 32, is “a self-explained ‘incel,’ or involuntarily celibate,” federal prosecutors mentioned in a memo filed Tuesday in Brooklyn Federal Courtroom. “Members of this movement have increasingly been concerned in violent functions,” Assistant U.S. Legal professional Gilbert Rein wrote in the memo.

Swift is accused of creating his threats in e-mails and audio recordings to a person of the 7 days-lengthy festival’s organizers, telling her in 1 chilling message, “The perfect issue would be to go up to Woodstock to shoot up…the Jewish meet up. That would be ideal,” in accordance to court filings.

Federal authorities arrested Swift on Tuesday morning, and a Brooklyn Federal Courtroom justice of the peace later on in the day ordered him held with no bail.

The competition, which operates from Aug. 21 by way of Aug. 28 at Camp Walden in Diamond Point, N.Y., costs itself as a lakeside “vegan well being retreat” and “an all-out celebration of overall health, fruit-dependent eating plan and particular development.”

Swift started off his campaign versus the lady who operates the festival in February by warning her in an e-mail not to permit two adult men related with the occasion to go to, in accordance to a federal complaint.

The messages escalated just after that, court docket files state.

“Yeah none of them can go to Woodstock, if I see them at Woodstock on line I’ll go to Woodstock with a gun and just shoot them or whoever else is in my way…not you, I’ll under no circumstances shoot you, yet,” Swift said in a single concept.

“I hope they all do occur so I get to go up and shoot all people,” he said in an additional.

He also threatened to stab folks “with my lawful pocketknife” if the festival went on as prepared, and threatened to “do a f—ing Ted Bundy” to the organizer, who’s determined in court documents as…