The Biden administration is on alert for a lone wolf terrorist attack in the United States as war between Israel and Hamas rages thousands of miles away.

The Department of Homeland Security and the Federal Bureau of Investigation are on particular alert for hate crimes, including against Jewish Americans, according to DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas.

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"The Department of Homeland Security, along with the FBI and all of our partners, are constantly evaluating the threat landscape. We remain very concerned about the lone wolf — the individual incited to violence by an ideology of hate," Mayorkas told Jewish leaders at a "Unity in Crisis: Emergency Solidarity Mission for Israel” event Tuesday.

Mayorkas was scheduled to speak at the department's annual awards ceremony at the DHS headquarters in Washington Tuesday morning but instead attended the pro-Israel event with leaders from the Conference of Presidents and Jewish Federations, where top Democratic and Republican lawmakers in Congress spoke in defense of Israel.

Hate crimes aimed at Jewish individuals in the United States increased 25% from 2021 to 2022, Mayorkas said. Last year, antisemitic acts made up more than half of all reported religion-based hate crimes, according to new FBI statistics released Monday.

"There is no such thing as a small act of hate — a swastika graffitied on an elevator wall impacts so many more than just those who step in or off that elevator," said Mayorkas, whose mother was a Romanian Jew who escaped the Holocaust with her family and fled to Cuba during the 1940s.

Over the weekend, a 6-year-old Muslim boy and his mother were stabbed in Illinois in what the Department of Justice has determined to be a hate crime that stemmed from the Israel-Hamas conflict. The suspect arrested in the boy's death and woman's injuries has been charged with first-degree murder.

"There is no humane world that can and should tolerate the murder of an innocent child because of his identity," Mayorkas said in a string of posts to X on Monday. "The tragic events in the Middle East, begun by the brutal terrorist attacks by Hamas, have brought ideologies of hate to the fore across the world — notably antisemitism and Islamophobia. This must end. The diversity and inclusiveness that define America must prevail. Our Department condemns violence, including and especially violence born of hate, and we will continue to work every day to prevent it."

Mayorkas implored all Americans to be on alert, remain vigilant, and prepared given the "highly charged environment" the world is in since the Hamas terrorist attack against Israel on Oct. 7.

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Local, state, and federal law enforcement have been on high alert since the attack, particularly after last week's "Day of Rage" that a former Hamas leader had called for sympathizers to carry out around the world.

Mayorkas was slated to return to the DHS campus and attend a reception for award winners following his appearance at the conference.