The man accused of injuring five after breaking into a rabbi’s home in New York kept journals that contained anti-Semitic views and referenced Adolf Hitler.

Grafton Thomas, 37, allegedly broke into the home of Rabbi Chaim Rottenberg and stabbed five people with a machete on Saturday night as the group gathered to celebrate the seventh night of Hanukkah. On Monday, prosecutors filed hate crime charges against Thomas, according to the New York Times.

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