Assailant who stabbed five people attending a party at a rabbi's home pleads not guilty to attempted murder
Suspect in Hanukkah celebration stabbings Thomas Grafton, 37 years old from Greenwood Lake, leaves the Ramapo Town Hall in Airmont, New York after being arrested on December 29, 2019.
President Donald Trump tweeted that Americans "must all come together to fight, confront, and eradicate the evil scourge of anti-Semitism." "Everyone was screaming and panicking and shouting 'out out out.' It was chaos," Joseph Gluck, 30, told reporters.Last year a white supremacist shot dead 11 people at a Pittsburgh synagogue – the deadliest attack against the Jewish community in the United States.
As he did Sunday, Trump denounced anti-Semitism after previous attacks but critics blame him for stoking racial hatreds with comments about Muslims and Latin migrants that some white nationalists have taken as confirming their position. "I was praying for my life," said Aron Kohn, 65, another witness to Saturday's attack who compared the assailant's knife to "the size of a broomstick.""I saw him stabbing people," he added. "He injured a guy.
New York Senator Chuck Schumer demanded "a thorough federal investigation by the FBI of this specific attack and other anti-Semitic attacks in recent days."
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