Former Miss Slovakia says Uber driver kicked her out on busy intersection for being Jewish

A Toronto exemplary was allegedly kicked retired of her Uber thrust aft the operator learned that she was Jewish.

News of the incidental was archetypal reported by the National Post, a Canadian-English newspaper.

Miriam Mattova, 33, told Fox News Digital successful an interrogation Monday that she got into an Uber connected Dundas Street successful Toronto connected November 30 and was FaceTiming a friend, telling her astir a caller ngo travel she took to Israel.

Mattova said the pistillate operator past abruptly slammed connected her brakes and told her to get retired of the car astatine a engaged intersection.

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Miriam Mattova during her ngo travel with Israel Friends connected Sunday, Nov. 9, 2025. (Miriam Mattova)

"I instantly ended my telephone and asked, like, wherefore they're stopping. And they told maine that they consciousness uncomfortable with maine successful the car," Mattova said. "So I asked why, due to the fact that I didn't bash thing wrong. And past I got an reply that they don't thrust Jewish people."

An Uber spokesperson told Fox News Digital that the institution has reached retired to some parties arsenic portion of its reappraisal of the incident.

"We’re atrocious for the acquisition this rider reported. Discrimination has nary spot connected our platform, and we instrumentality concerns similar this precise seriously. We’ve been successful interaction with some the rider and the operator to recognize from each of them what happened and person taken due action."

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The erstwhile Miss Slovakia and Canadian nationalist said she and the person who booked her Uber filed elaborate complaints with the institution aft the incidental unfolded.

"Canada has ever been a spot I believed in. That's the crushed wherefore I moved backmost here. And welcoming, diverse, respectful. And we each stock work to guarantee it stays that way. And speaking up isn't astir maine playing a unfortunate role. I conscionable privation to marque that precise clear. It's astir drafting a enactment and lasting successful our information and inspiring that hatred against immoderate religion oregon community, not conscionable the Jewish people," said Mattova. "And I deliberation that each incidental similar this should person consequences, successful this lawsuit for the operator and for the ample company, called Uber."

Miriam Mattova attends the Yorkville Jewish Center Appreciation Gala connected Tuesday, Oct. 28, 2025. (Miriam Mattova)

Her lawyer, Howard Levitt, told Fox News Digital that his lawsuit is seeking an apology, the driver’s termination, a donation to an Israeli foundation of her choosing, and a request that each Uber drivers admit a no-discrimination argumentation going forward.

"We've demanded they terminate the narration with the driver, and they've refused to respond to that astatine all. They assertion privacy, which is implicit nonsense," Levitt said. "First of all, nary 1 adjacent knows the driver's name, truthful there's nary privateness issue. And secondly, astir decent companies are anxious to archer the satellite that they would occurrence idiosyncratic similar that."

Miriam Mattova visits a memorial astatine the Nova euphony festival tract successful November 2025. (Miriam Mattova)

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Mattova traveled to Israel successful aboriginal November to witnesser the horrors of the Oct. 7, 2023, Hamas-led violent attacks successful confederate Israel. She visited Kibbutz Be'eri and spoke with erstwhile hostage Ofir Engel, who was kidnapped on with his girlfriend's father.

She told Fox News Digital that this is not the archetypal antisemitic incidental she has faced successful Canada, and wants radical to "stand gangly and code modern antisemitism."