AFP, NEW YORKUS authorities on Monday laid federal hate crimes charges against a man who referenced Adolf Hitler in his diaries and allegedly stabbed five people at a rabbi’s house. “We have made it a habit when the Jewish community is attacked anywhere in the world to reinforce key Jewish community locations in New York City,” he said. The New York Times quoted Taleea Collins, a friend of the suspect, and his pastor, Wendy Paige, as saying that Thomas struggles with mental illness. He also searched for “Zionist temples” in the New York area, according to the complaint, which was first reported by the New York Times. In 2018, a white supremacist shot dead 11 people at a Pittsburgh synagogue — the deadliest attack against the Jewish community in the US.

Source: Taipei Times December 31, 2019 16:41 UTC