Five people hurt in mass stabbing attack at rabbi’s home in New York

[Noachide]

https://www.timesofisrael.com/multiple-injuries-reported-in-stabbing-at-synagogue-in-monsey-new-york/

This is terrible. Same as in Nazi Germany.

[briann]

https://www.timesofisrael.com/multiple-injuries-reported-in-stabbing-at-synagogue-in-monsey-new-york/

This is terrible. Same as in Nazi Germany.

Looks like he is a proud afrocan.  Lets see how quickly the media burries this.

[Mishmaat]

Looks like he is a proud afrocan.  Lets see how quickly the media burries this.

I knew the suspect was a schvartze once I heard a machete was used.

[ChaimBenMordechai]

Da schvartze..he be named Grafton E. Thomas.. MMMM HMMMMMMM!

He dindu niffin...

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[Ulli]

This is too much! What is going on in New York?

[Ben Yehuda]

This is too much! What is going on in New York?

Unfortunately, it is the same thing that is going on in Europe- a little behind, but the same. I believe it will get worse as the the demographics become darker.

[ChabadKahanist]

I knew the suspect was a schvartze once I heard a machete was used.

I thought that they used spears after all they don't call them spear chuckers for nothing!!!!

[Joe Gutfeld]

I won't be surprised if this guy gets a medal for what he did.  It's OK to attack Jews but not any other group.

[Ulli]

I won't be surprised if this guy gets a medal for what he did.  It's OK to attack Jews but not any other group.

There is a hierachie of victims. Jews are moving down the ladder and others moving up. In the lefties mind the crime is second. First is who does it to whom. Martin Lichtmesz has written about it. Btw he is the only author of the right that is worth reading. His analysis are always to the truth.

I liked from him very much for "I am not Charly". (A statement for the real feelings of religious people)

[briann]

There is a hierachie of victims. Jews are moving down the ladder and others moving up. In the lefties mind the crime is second. First is who does it to whom. Martin Lichtmesz has written about it. Btw he is the only author of the right that is worth reading. His analysis are always to the truth.

I liked from him very much for "I am not Charly". (A statement for the real feelings of religious people)

Dems only become outraged if the perpetrator is white.... if the perpetrator is black, like the last 15 violent attacks... they either burry the news, or focus on the weapon that was used.

[briann]

here's a picture of the animal:


Apparently his last google search on his computer was 'Why did Hitler hate the Jews?'

[Kahane-Was-Right BT]

The perpetrator's lawyer is so perplexed and confused by the Black Hebrew Israelite ideology and theology, that he is calling his client's explanations the ramblings of mental illness.  That's how dumb they are.  But it's not mental illness, it's what they teach and what he believes!

https://apnews.com/b8cf2a50b8b5085a8677a6c6df9f8360
Officials: Hanukkah attack suspect researched Hitler online

MONSEY, N.Y. (AP) — A man charged with federal hate crimes Monday in a bloody attack on a Hanukkah celebration had handwritten journals containing anti-Semitic references and had recently used his phone to look up information on Hitler and the location of synagogues, authorities said.

Grafton Thomas, 37, was held without bail after appearing in federal court in White Plains on five counts of obstructing the free exercise of religious beliefs by attempting to kill with a dangerous weapon. Five people were stabbed and slashed in the Saturday attack north of New York City.

A blood-stained 18-inch (45-centimeter) machete was recovered from his car, along with a knife smeared with dried blood and hair, prosecutors said in a criminal complaint.

Thomas, his ankles shackled, shuffled into the courtroom in a prison jumpsuit, telling a judge who asked him if his head was clear that he was “not clear at all” and needed sleep. But he added: “I am coherent.”

His court-appointed attorney, Susanne Brody, said Thomas has struggled with bipolar disorder and schizophrenia. Another attorney retained by his family, Michael Sussman, said Thomas had been hearing voices and may have stopped taking psychiatric medications recently.

The stabbings on the seventh night of Hanukkah came amid a series of violent attacks targeting Jews in the region that have led to increased security, particularly around religious gatherings.

A criminal complaint said journals recovered from Thomas’ home in Greenwood Lake included comments questioning “why ppl mourned for anti-Semitism when there is Semitic genocide” and a page with drawings of a Star of David and a swastika.

A phone recovered from his car included repeated internet searches for “Why did Hitler hate the Jews” as well as “German Jewish Temples near me” and “Prominent companies founded by Jews in America,” the complaint said.

On the day of the stabbings, the phone’s browser was used to access an article titled: “New York City Increases Police Presence in Jewish Neighborhoods After Possible Anti-Semitic Attacks. Here’s What To Know,” the complaint said.

Sussman told reporters he visited Thomas’ home and found stacks of notes he described as “the ramblings of a disturbed individual” but nothing to point to an “anti-Semitic motive” or suggest Thomas intentionally targeted the rabbi’s home.

“My impression from speaking with him is that he needs serious psychiatric evaluation,” Sussman said. “His explanations were not terribly coherent.”

Thomas’ family said he was raised to embrace tolerance but has a long history of mental illness, including multiple hospitalizations.

“He has no history of like violent acts and no convictions for any crime,” his family said in a statement. “He has no known history of anti-Semitism and was raised in a home which embraced and respected all religions and races. He is not a member of any hate groups.”

Thomas served in the Marines and was president of his class at a high school in Queens, Sussman said. He attended William Paterson University between 2005 and 2007, the university confirmed, where he played football as a walk-on running back.

Thomas’ family said his mental health deteriorated over the years. He would hear voices and have trouble completing sentences at times. Thomas said a voice talked to him about property that was in the rabbi’s house, according to Sussman.

In court papers filed in a 2013 eviction case in Utah, Thomas said he suffered from schizophrenia, depression and anxiety and his “conditions are spontaneous and untamed.”

Thomas was arrested within two hours of the Saturday night attack in Monsey. When police pulled his car over in Manhattan, he had blood all over his clothing and smelled of bleach but said “almost nothing” to the arresting officers, officials said.

Thomas’ aunt told The Associated Press that he had a “germ phobia” and obsessively washed his hands and feet with bleach.

She said Thomas grew up in the Crown Heights neighborhood of Brooklyn and “lived peacefully” among Jewish neighbors. She said Thomas had not been taking his medication and recently went missing for a week.

The woman spoke on the condition of anonymity out of fear she would lose her government job for speaking publicly.

“They’re making him look like this monster,” she said in a telephone interview. “My nephew is not a monster. He’s just sick. He just needs help.”

According to the complaint, Thomas, a scarf covering his face, entered the rabbi’s home next door to a synagogue and said “no one is leaving.” He then took out a machete and started stabbing and slashing people in the home packed with dozens of congregants, the complaint said.

The five victims suffered serious injuries — including a severed finger, slash wounds and deep lacerations — and at least one was in critical condition with a skull fracture, the complaint said.

On Sunday, Thomas pleaded not guilty to charged including five counts of attempted murder. He was detained on $5 million bail.

In a release, U.S. Attorney Geoffrey S. Berman said Thomas “targeted his victims in the midst of a religious ceremony, transforming a joyous Hanukkah celebration into a scene of carnage and pain.”

Thomas’ criminal history includes an arrest for assaulting a police horse, according to an official briefed on the investigation who was not authorized to discuss the matter publicly and spoke to the AP on condition of anonymity. A lawyer representing Thomas at the arraignment said he had no convictions.

The criminal complaint said one passage in Thomas’ journals stated that the “Hebrew Israelites” took from the “ebidnoid Israelites.” The FBI agent who wrote the complaint said that appeared to be a reference to the Black Hebrew Israelite movement, some branches of which have been associated with anti-Semitism.

The attack was the latest in a string of violence targeting Jews in the region, including a Dec. 10 massacre at a kosher grocery store in New Jersey. Last month in Monsey, a man was stabbed while walking to a synagogue. No arrest has been made in that stabbing.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo, a Democrat, said Saturday’s savagery was the 13th anti-Semitic attack in New York since Dec. 8.

Monsey, near the New Jersey state line about 35 miles (56 kilometers) north of New York City, is one of several Hudson Valley communities that has seen a rising population of Hasidic Jews in recent years. At a Sunday celebration that was planned before the attack, several members of the community stood guard armed with assault-style rifles.

“The Jewish community is utterly terrified,” Evan Bernstein, the regional director of the Anti-Defamation League of New York and New Jersey, said in a statement. “No one should have to live like this.”

In New York City, the Rev. Al Sharpton appeared Monday with Jewish and other faith leaders at his Harlem headquarters and said he was disturbed and upset that several of the suspects in recent attacks on Jews have been black.

“We cannot remain silent as we see a consistent pattern of attacks on people based on their faith and who they are,” Sharpton said. “You can’t fight hate against you if you aren’t willing to fight hate against everybody else.”

___ Mustian and Neumeister reported from New York. Associated Press writer Michael Balsamo in New York contributed to this report.

The lawyer is trying to whitewash his client's antisemitism.  It is shameful!

[Israel Chai]

Calling out black racism.

[briann]

The perpetrator's lawyer is so perplexed and confused by the Black Hebrew Israelite ideology and theology, that he is calling his client's explanations the ramblings of mental illness.  That's how dumb they are.  But it's not mental illness, it's what they teach and what he believes!

ok, that's absurd.  So that means that if a Klans-member lynched a black person, the defense would be that the KKK's ideology is nonsensical, therefore the Klans-member isn't hateful, he's just mentally ill.

[Israel Chai]

ok, that's absurd.  So that means that if a Klans-member lynched a black person, the defense would be that the KKK's ideology is nonsensical, therefore the Klans-member isn't hateful, he's just mentally ill.

Right. But they'd be white, so the media would say "an example of Protestant fundamentalism" and say he knew what he was doing.

[Ulli]

At least he was sane enough to
1. look for targets:

A phone recovered from his car included repeated internet searches for “Why did Hitler hate the Jews” as well as “German Jewish Temples near me” and “Prominent companies founded by Jews in America,” the complaint said.

2. do research to avoid the police:

On the day of the stabbings, the phone’s browser was used to access an article titled: “New York City Increases Police Presence in Jewish Neighborhoods After Possible Anti-Semitic Attacks. Here’s What To Know,” the complaint said.

3. have a motive:

A criminal complaint said journals recovered from Thomas’ home in Greenwood Lake included comments questioning “why ppl mourned for anti-Semitism when there is Semitic genocide” and a page with drawings of a Star of David and a swastika.

Sounds like a BDS guy or Palestinan activist as well as

The criminal complaint said one passage in Thomas’ journals stated that the “Hebrew Israelites” took from the “ebidnoid Israelites.”

black Hebrew perhaps. Or both.

The lawyers statement is if you look at the facts nonsense. The evidence prove clearly the opposite.:

Sussman told reporters he visited Thomas’ home and found stacks of notes he described as “the ramblings of a disturbed individual” but nothing to point to an “anti-Semitic motive” or suggest Thomas intentionally targeted the rabbi’s home.

Btw this statement seems incorrect:

In New York City, the Rev. Al Sharpton appeared Monday with Jewish and other faith leaders at his Harlem headquarters and said he was disturbed and upset that several of the suspects in recent attacks on Jews have been black.

I think all were black. At least on the videos on youtube you see only black people attacking. I can be wrong, but not seen there kaukasians or east asians.

[Israel Chai]

Btw this statement seems incorrect:  I think all were black. At least on the videos on youtube you see only black people attacking. I can be wrong, but not seen there kaukasians or east asians.

There are some Jews that are white in Crown Heights. Everyone else was black or Mexican. If a white guy attacks a Jew in Crown Heights, he's dumb because there's like 2 and we know where they live.

[briann]

'Ebidnoid Israelite'

Wow, it sounds so scientific.

[Israel Chai]

'Ebidnoid Israelite'

Wow, it sounds so scientific.

To quote Nietzsche, "they muddy the waters to make them seem more profound".

[Kahane-Was-Right BT]

'Ebidnoid Israelite'

Wow, it sounds so scientific.

 

[Nachus]

                                                                            

Demented, sick animal, successful candidate for Gehennom!