The stabbing was so brutal, police thought the victim had been hit by a car, but still they did not think it a “hate crime.”
Monsey stabbing suspect may be linked to earlier attack
Authorities investigating whether Grafton Thomas is tied to a recent stabbing near a local synagogue.
Israel National News, December 29, 2019:
Authorities are investigating whether Grafton Thomas, the man charged in Saturday night’s machete attack on Hanukkah celebrants in Monsey, is tied to a recent stabbing near a village synagogue, a law enforcement official told The New York Post on Sunday.
Details of the incident under investigation were unclear, but a 30-year man was beaten and repeatedly knifed while walking to the Mosdos Meharam Brisk Tashnad religious center in Monsey around 5:30 a.m. on November 20, the Journal News reported at the time.
The victim, a father of four, was so badly brutalized that cops were initially told he’d apparently been hit by a car, officials said.
Ramapo Police Chief Brad Weidel told reporters that the man was “approached from behind by one or more individuals” and stabbed with an unidentified weapon that wasn’t immediately recovered.
Shortly after the November 20 incident, Ramapo police said they do not believe that the stabbing was a hate crime.
The FBI joined that investigation and authorities were working to enhance low-quality surveillance video shot from afar, according to The New York Post.
Saturday night’s attack took place at approximately 9:50 p.m. while congregants gathered a Hasidic synagogue operated by Rabbi Rottenburg in Monsey, New York.
Some 50 to 60 people had gathered to light Hanukkah candles when the assailant, who was covering his face with a scarf, burst into the synagogue brandishing a machete, and began stabbing congregants.
Some congregants hurled chairs and a small table at the assailant, forcing him to flee.
The attacker drove off, making his way to New York City. Police found him roughly two hours later, at around midnight, after identifying his car via the license plate number.
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we all knew the pos was a muslim the minute it was reported. if he was a white christian, the democrat-muslim media would have said so within 5 seconds
Whether that thing was a moslem, or not … it’s simply a continuation of negroes … just bein’ negroes.
Well I’m sure Angolan Christians don’t shoot up synagogues. Or Ethiopian Jews. Or Eritrean Christians. Or Nigerian Christians.
Achmed, does Jeff Dunham have his hand up your ass?
Hi, little plusaf. I do know that you love it when he places another part of his anatomy up yours. Moreover, you love to lick it clean. Don’t you little one?
But I’m kinda confused, there’s no info about how we know he’s a muzzrat. I don’t doubt Pam, ever, but usually she includes that stuff. It’s probably just an oversight. Even Pam isn’t God, tho’ Heaven knows she’s very close to Him given her courage and love for all of is-slime’s victims…
Going to check on Bare Naked Islam and other links.
Nice boy… bet his uncle was plying with his zipper when he was young
UPDATE 1:30PM: A highly credible law-enforcement source tells YWN that the Monsey stabbing attack suspect ,Thomas E. Grafton, is a RECENT MUSLIM CONVERT. https://www.theyeshivaworld.com/news/general/1814985/and-so-it-begins-family-of-suspect-says-he-is-mentally-ill-latest-updates-on-monsey-attack-updated-635pm.html
And dumb Left/Liberal including Jews support Demonrats who support jihadi immigration.
Left/Liberals invite Muslim immigrants and they payback with fecal diversity cuisine
http://offtrade.net/cnmnews/coffee-chains-with-fecal-bacteria/
LOL !
Left/Liberal pro-jihadi deserve it and worse.
Does this rule also apply to Erin Biba the radical leftist Bolshevik jewish propagandist?
Does it apply to Robert the nazi wannabe?
I don’t understand what you mean by that, could you expand on your emotional outburst?
Since you are a happy jew willing to respond, albeit not very intelligently, perhaps you can redeem yourself by answering this : judeo-bolshevism up against atheist nazism – who killed the most innocent human beings?
Islam has killed the most.
Atheist Communism and Nazism trail behind
Judaism believes in self improvement and sharing your gifts with the World.
yes on Islam; wrong on actual question, Judeo-Bolshevism: just in 20th century- 30 million Russian christians, 6 million Ukrainian christians – what’s more, their actions in 1918-1920+ Germany provoked the reactive rise of Hitler and the National Socialist far left Fascists; to your cognitive wishful thinking distortions, mythology is not history, it’s a certain form of magic. History always bubbles to the surface, archives spilling inconvenient facts. Truth and reconciliation is possible for jewish crimes, but they must come clean and ask for forgiveness, nobody is dupe, the world awaits.
“Judeo-Bolshevism”, bwahahahahahahahaahahahahaah, as if Marx and Engel’s writings had anything to do with Judaism.
Trotsky and the head of the NKVD both had Jewish ancestry, but could hardly be called practicing Jews and being Jewish hardly saved them from being killed by paranoid Stalin.
I don’t understand first part of your sentence, seems unhinged. But Judeo-Bolsheviks were educated and raised Jewish and that is undeniable, as were their horrendous crimes. “The Communist soul is the soul of Judaism.” Rabbi Harry Waton
Thank you for this enlightening exchange.
With such bloody hands of injustice and crime, Jews have much for which their souls must atone. Let there be peace and reconciliation.
Go DIAF.
You speak to us from the pit of this fire it seems. Remember: Judeo-bolshevism is a dangerous cult, go and repent for your sins. The world knows your crimes. May your cult find a path towards the light, may you find forgiveness, and cleanse your blood drenched hands. Ask forgiveness of african americans for your crimes against their unique and beautiful culture, and the russians, and germans, and the spanish, and christians and ukrainians and chinese and americans where you live and the arabs you kill in Palestine. And the millions who died so you could have israel. Ungrateful people! Your war against the world must end. Nobody wants your poisoned gifts we want to stop your insane hatred. Just ask for forgiveness, peace and reconciliation.
Nazis and muslums — as dumb as fence posts but unfortunately considerably more dangerous.
I reckon I’m on the ball.
In 1400 years, Islam has killed some 280 million people. Before Islam came out of the Arabian Peninsula there were 250 archdioceses in North Africa and it was European, according to one historian. The Great Library in Alexandria took six months to burn. An Egyptian Christian, Usama Dakdok, has said that the Crusades came only 300 years too late.
Your delusions that the Jews controlled the USSR is nowhere more apparent than in the fact synagogues and churches were unilaterally closed by the authorities in the USSR and Jews persecuted from Stalin’s time to the present.
Incorrect. The facts. Jews around the world celebrated 1917 when the Bolsheviks (Communists), led by Lenin (using schiff, warburg and rothschild gold) and Trotsky, seized power in Moscow. The first legislative act that passed by the new legislature was the “anti-semitism act” This law, according the traditions of men, made it a criminal offense to defame Jews and Judaism. Even a joke about the Jews was classified as a hate crime punishable by ten years in prison. Not only Lenin and Trotsky, but also Stalin and Beria spoke Yiddish fluently, as well as leaders of Chekists and NKVD (Holodomor) – wonder why? Sources? Russian and Chinese communist archives. Propaganda is incompatible with facts.
Um Trotsky was drummed out of power and had to flee the USSR for his life to Mexico — where he was killed by a fellow Communist.
If the Jews controlled the USSR then why were synagogues UNIVERSALLY and UNILATERALLY closed by the USSR?
Even still, these people being attacked while in synagogue has very little to do w/the atrocities you’ve highlighted. Please don’t tell me that you’re somehow suggesting that brutal attack is justified? Whether it’s racial, religious or just the guy being mentally deranged, what he did was wrong (horrible!). And using this attack to highlight acts of wickedness that happened in the past doesn’t make you appear as an agent of truth. Right is right & wrong is still WRONG.
Oh, Judas … Little robi, the Somali muslima, rears her exceedingly poorly educated head, once again. You poor, poor little thing.
And then one day Mordechai cried wolf and… nobody came to help; and in the towns across the lands the people rejoiced, esp. the children & young maidens, as finally the tricksters‘ fate, their wicked perverted ways, lies, hatred of all people & deceptions could now make way for an age of honesty, truth & peace.
Unfortunately, you being a clitless somali muslima, you have neither the intellect, or education, to be a trickster. Do you, little one? You poor, poor little thing.
the link doesnt say he is a muslim, says he may be mentally ill
that´s the same thig….
yes, but you know what I mean. Geller is the only report on this on the web, even her reference doesn’t have it.
The picture shows that it’s a negro. Seemingly, all of the recent attacks, against the Jewish people, have been by negroes.
Although, considering that OVER 80% of all violent street crime, in San Francisco, has been negro perpetrators against those of East Asian descent victims … it’s simply keeping with … negroes …. just bein’ negroes.
Wrong. The worst killings against Jews have been committed by white Christians. The killers at the synagogues in Pittsburgh and Poway, Ca were white Christians.
Your racism is showing.
What is it about your ilk that forces you to spout lie, upon lie, upon lie? The vile attack, in Poway killed one person, injuring two others. The vile Pittsburgh mass murder killed eleven. Neither of the perpetrators claimed being a Christian.
THE worst mass murder of Jews, outside of Israel, was the AMIA bombing, wherein the prime perpetrators were negro and Sand Negro (ayrahbs) moslems. Brutally murdering 84.
Your racism is showing, little janbn.
Your racism
My racism? There has been racism all over this comment thread. The attack on the rabbi’s home was horrendous but you seem to forget that the other attacks on Synagogues caused people to die.The perpetrators of those killings weren’t Muslim. They weren’t black. They were white as has been every other mass killer in this country who with but one exception was white. The Poway shooter identified as a white nationalist as was the shooter at the Tree of Life Synagogue. White nationalism, a racist ideology, has grown since the racist trump came into office. I am certainly aware of the fact that there have been worse murders of Jews but I was talking just about this country.
Maybe you don’t value the lives of people who aren’t Jews but I value all lives. I don’t denigrate people because of their race, religion or the color of their skin. I don’t call them vile names.
You said something about my ilk. My ilk, as you call it, is Jewish. Long ago I was taught in my Jewish home that all lives have value and that no one people are any better than any other people. I would bet that you don’t share that value, do you?
What is it with your ilk that insists upon telling lie, upon lie, upon lie. As the DOJ defines a “mass shooting”, wherein four or more people are killed or wounded … OVER 75% of ALL perpetrators of “mass shootings” are of African descent. From the New York Times: https://www.amazon.com/Comprehensive-Yiddish-English-Dictionary-Solon-Beinfeld/dp/0253009839/ref=asc_df_0253009839/?tag=bingshoppinga-20&linkCode=df0&hvadid=&hvpos=&hvnetw=o&hvrand=&hvpone=&hvptwo=&hvqmt=e&hvdev=c&hvdvcmdl=&hvlocint=&hvlocphy=&hvtargid=pla-4583726540799477&psc=1
I can furnish links to many other sources. Cruise around the USDOJ’s site. You’ll find it all right there.
TOO funny, little one. Do you actually expect to find human beings STUPID enough to believe your lies?
Yes. She does 🙂
Thought he was a Muslim
Imagine my surprise
Absolutely. Hacking a stabbing people, with a machete, is not violent. It’s only confused.
When he was arrested in his car drenched in BLOOD
and desperately using BLEACH to destroy evidence,
he claimed he was INNOCENT!
What is his MUSLIM name?
Dumbazz Nee-grow Muuhamed.
“They don’t believe the November 20 incident was a hate crime” because everyone knows you only come up behind someone and brutally stab them out of pure love.
He sure was sane enough to stop to clean his clothes with bleach.
“Police tracked a fleeing suspect to Manhattan and made an arrest within hours of the attack Saturday night in Monsey. Grafton E. Thomas had blood all over his clothing and smelled of bleach when officers stopped him, prosecutors said.”
AFAICT, no mention of the fact the f’ing attacker was a muslum in the televised enemedia.
Don’t look or sound surprised, Mu… neither am I, but the Geller Report announced it within a few days… https://p.feedblitz.com/r3.asp?l=168299621&f=26412&c=6778083&u=24908775
MY first reaction, which I shared on FB and was probably censored (haven’t checked yet) was to take one look at the crime, one look at the Islamic Fundamentalist beard and one look at his black skin and wonder, “which penitentiary was he in when he was “converted” and how recently was he released or escaped?
The f’ing 9-11 attackers didn’t have “fundamentalist beards” that didn’t make them any less dangerous. The muslums who run CAIR similarly don’t have “fundamentalist beards” but that doesn’t make them or the rest of the muslum world, any less the fascists they are.
now yeshiva world says he may be mentally ill, does not report his is a muslim convert
I had to look that one up, but now I understand… it’s not necessarily Irritable Bowel Syndrome, though that might provoke her irritability, too, but here’s the definition I’d go with…
https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=IBS
Dov Hikind identifies the problem African Americans https://www.minds.com/media/1058101808699588608
Is this a sign of the Apocalypse? Jewish leaders actually call out the Fellas for black violence against Jews. A new podcast from Colin Flaherty
http://whitegirlbleedalot.com/is-this-a-sign-of-the-apocalypse-jewish-leaders-actually-call-out-the-fellas-for-black-violence-against-jews-a-new-podcast-from-colin-flaherty/
Carry concealed, and end this madness. Lawyers won’t be using public funds to defend these animals.
Strange. `Someone did something` is becoming a mantra among muslim protectionist and apologists. This is an Islamic terror attack carried out by Jew haters not a `domestic` as this idiot Cuomo suggests.
This is what you get when you allow a country to be run by the West hating UN and allow Islamic extremists like Omar to spout anti American rhetoric from a position of power.
What did you call the massacres committed by white Christian men at the synagogues in Pittsburgh and Poway? Just boys being boys as long as they weren’t Muslim?
I have followed those stories. I have yet to find one source that the perpetrators claimed to be Christian. However, that’s to be expected from your ilk. Claiming that most, if not all, mass shootings were perpetrated by those of European descent. When, the facts show that OVER 75% of ALL mass shootings are committed by those of African descent. Why do you, and your ilk, insist upon telling lie upon lie, upon lie?
NO, IT’S NOT A HATE CRIME BECAUSE THEN ISLAM WOULD HAVE TO BE IDENTIFIED AS A HATER CREED AND THE POLITICALLY CORRECT CULTURE COULDN’T HAVE THAT DEGREE OF HONESTY! THE REFERENCE TO GRAFTON BEING A MUSLIM CONVERT WON’T PUBLICLY BE SAID JUST LIKE MASS MURDERERS’ ETHNICITIES AREN’T BEING ALLOWED TO BE REPORTED BY THE PC DEM-RAT MEDIA INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX BECAUSE IT WOULD TEND TO UNDERLINE THE REALITY THAT THE VAST MAJORITY OF VIOLENT OFFENDERS WHO BELONG TO THE DEM-RAT PARTIES’ VOTING BASE DON’T BELONG TO THE ETHNICITIES OF THE VICTIMS WHO HAPPEN TO BELONG TO THE REPUBLICANS’ MAJORITY VOTING GROUP! DON’T WANT REPUBLICANS THINKING CRITICALLY AND NOT FEELING GUILTY! HAPPY 2020!
I am a humble student from China: me and my friends are fascinated, according to the Judeo-Bolshevik Fascist lefty Erin Biba, the culprit was a “white supremacist” – yet the attacker looks non-white and is in fact Jewish. What could be the reason for her hate speech against an innocent ethnic group? Why have jews also alienated african-americans? Thanks for your answers.
If you’re a humble student from China, I’m Genghis Khan.
I am a humble student from China: me and my friends are fascinated, according to the Judeo-Bolshevik Fascist lefty Erin Biba, the culprit was a “white supremacist” – yet the attacker looks non-white and is in fact Jewish. What could be the reason for her hate speech against an innocent ethnic group? Why have jews also alienated african-americans? Thanks for your answers.
The trend is becoming quite obvious. It’s the intention the Jew-haters to drive the Jews from New York and its environs. This Muslim like the rest of the attackers is a soldier of DeBlasio and his Bolshevist cadre who nurtures and encourages these attacks. Civil War appears to be the only way we will be able to rid ourselves of these vermin.
A slave of islam.
WATCH: Children at Muslim School in Philadelphia Sing Jihadist Songs
https://www.breitbart.com/national-security/2019/05/05/muslim-school-philadelphia-jihad
Passing more laws will not stop this.
Designating acts such as these as “hate crimes” will not stop this.
It will not be stopped until islam is no longer recognized as a religion and proclaimed as the violent ideology that it is.
Islamic immigration to this country should be stopped, mosques closed down and any muslims who came here illegally should be deported and the paper work for those who came her legally should be re-examined.
Here’s a man that followed the law. Funny how that law
Wonder how that will work out in the States?
Here we go! EXCUSES for Islam.
He was so “mentally ill” he was using bleach to destroy evidence when arrested.
Suspect in Hanukkah attack outside New York City has history of mental illness, family says
By Edmund DeMarche | Fox News 12/30/19
The family of the suspect in the brutal attack at a rabbi’s home during a Hanukkah celebration on Saturday night said in a statement that he has suffered from a long history of mental illness and has no known history of anti-Semitism.
…
“Grafton Thomas has a long history of mental illness and hospitalizations,” the statement read. “He has no history of like violent acts and no convictions for any crime. 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.”
…
https://www.foxnews.com/us/suspect-in-hanukkah-attack-outside-new-york-city-has-history-of-mental-illness-family-says
Well islamic fundamentalism is like rabies in a dog so…..
Outlaw islam worldwide, lock up moslem regimes, padlock mosques and impound all moslem literature and korans.
Remember the UN is made of one largest voting block, the OIC.
The Organization of Islamic Cooperation, made up of 57 nations, advocates making Islamophobia illegal world wide. The Saudis are paying for all those mosques being planted in Europe and North America.
DeBlasio is a ‘recent convert to islam’ !
This is still the poison fruit of the obama who used the wealth and prestige of America to promote and encourage islam the world over!
He’s mentally so he’s not guilty. BS! Every Muslim claims mental illness after an atrocity. They should not be allowed to live among us. We have rules about quarantining animals that come into the country. The same should apply to wild humans. Muslims are the kudzu of the human race.
A recent muslim “convert.” He’ll be described as being “radicalized” by violent “extremists” or maybe he has “mental illness.” Picked on in school or lost his job by a mean cracker. It’s not his fault. Next…
I thought he was doing homage to Jussie Mullet also.
You know, the bleach thing.
NYC needs Guilliani.
Of course this savage is a muzscum.
Were the white Christians who murdered Jews in Pittsburgh and Poway, CA savages? Or do you give them a pass because they were white and Christian?
Nazis were called Christians during WWII, but a real Christian Dietrich Bonhoeffer warned German Christians what would happen if they supported him. His radio broadcast was cut off. The fact is that the Nazis were not Christians they were actually environmentalists. Yep,
You can call yourself a tree, but that does not make you one.
It’s taken this long to get around to mentioning muslim convert….so typical.
Anyone remember the terrible killings at the synagogues in Pittsburgh and Poway? You wouldn’t have been able to blame a Muslim for those massacres. The killers were white Christians.
New it was a Muslim the minute I heard the news!!! What else!!! Wouldn’t be surprised if the one in Texas is too!
I’m waiting to repost your article about the machete wielder being a recent Muslim convert. Do you have more verification of this?
Go into America’s prisons … since the early 90’s it has been a recruiting ground for Muslims. Do you find the recruits there to be gentle, love-filled men? How and why are they recruited in astounding numbers? They are easily persuaded to join because they are promised preferential treatment inside the walls and are protected by state and federal laws. This is not only an American problem, but Australian and the UK also. This from Wikipedia:
In 2016, the total Muslim population in the United States
reached approximately 3.3 million (0.9% of the U.S. population). Yet in
the years between 2001 and 2014 it has been estimate that one quarter
of a million U.S. convicts converted to Islam in the U.S. prison system,[1]
making prison converts to Islam just from those years (not counting
prison converts to Islam before or since then) account for a significant
proportion of all Muslims in the United States overall.
In 2011, Pew Research Center
data estimated that Muslims made up 9% of the 1,598,780 United States
inmates in state and federal prisons despite Muslims being only 0.8% of
the general U.S. population in the year prior.[13]
In US federal prisons
alone, “tens of thousands of federal prison inmates have converted to
Islam while serving time[… While m]ost do not subscribe to a violent
interpretation of the faith, […] it takes only a few to create a
threat, according to Mark Hamm, a professor at Indiana State University who specializes in the field of prison radicalization.
“It is not the sheer number of prisoners following extremist
interpretations of religious doctrines that poses a threat,” Hamm told
FoxNews.com. “Rather, it is the potential for the single individual to
become radicalized.”[14]