The man suspected of a knife attack at a New York rabbi’s home on Saturday night made references to Jews and antisemitism in journals found at his home.
Federal prosecutors have now filed hate crime charges against Grafton Thomas in addition to earlier charges of attempted murder and burglary.
Five people were wounded during the incident in Monsey, a village with a large Jewish population around 55 kilometres northwest of New York City. One of the five victims remains critically ill.
The filing says the journals included references to Adolf Hitler and “Nazi Culture” on the same page as drawings of the Star of David and a Swastika, as well as comments such as “why ppl [people] mourned for anti-Semitism when there is Semitic genocide”.
