Will New York authorities investigate this possibility and its implications? Of course not. As far as they’re concerned in the city of 9/11, jihad terror and Islamic antisemitism do not exist, and anyone who thinks otherwise is the real problem.
More on this story. “Monsey Stabber: A Halachic Analysis,” by Rabbi Yair Hoffman, 5TJT.com via Vos Iz Neias?, January 2, 2020 (thanks to Andrew Bostom):
He had an 18 inch Ozark Trail machete, and he tried murdering Jews. Grafton Thomas is also 6”5 and over 200 pounds. The journals that Thomas left behind mention the Black Hebrew Israelites, Adolf Hitler, and some more anti-Semitic references. His former stepfather, Joe Kennedy informs us that Grafton Thomas, age 37, identifies as a Muslim. During the attack he told everyone, “No one is leaving.”
Someone threw a table at him. After he tried entering the shul next door and was blocked – he eventually escaped into his car and another person memorized his license plate….