Man arrested for Hanukkah machete attack pleads not guilty to hate crimes

The man who was arrested in connection to a machete attack at a Hanukkah celebration pleaded not guilty to 10 federal hate crime charges.

Grafton Thomas, 37, was hit with the charges after allegedly wounding five Hasidic Jews in the home of a rabbi in New York on the seventh day of Hanukkah. Authorities uncovered journals layered with anti-Semitic cartoons and references to Adolf Hitler, prompting prosecutors to add federal hate crime charges last week. He already faced charges on the state level for attempted murder and burglary.