It turns out that even anti-Semites who attack Chassidic Jews on Chanukah with a machete have mothers, and the mother of Grafton Thomas, 37, Kim, 55, told the press on Wednesday that her “was born in a Jewish neighborhood in Crown Heights,” and “grew up going there on a Friday afternoon to turn off the lights for them,” the NY Post reported.
OK, so she didn’t get the whole Shabbos goy thing right – his job is to turn on the lights on Shabbat, and only then turn them off again. He also does air conditioners, ovens, and stove tops.
Kim Thomas, who shares a home in Greenwood Lake, upstate NY, with Grafton, said that “If he goes down there,” meaning the old neighborhood in East New York, “anyone that sees him on the block, in the neighborhood, hugs him, welcomes him.”
So the NY Post went asking and couldn’t find any Jewish local in the old neighborhood who recalled the machete guy.
Kim works as a nurse, and claims her son suffers from schizophrenia and that she had begged a judge that heard the case of his assault of a policeman last May, to have him committed to a mental hospital. She claimed the entire incident that time had begun when she called 911 asking for mental health assistance, but cops showed up instead and got into a clash with Grafton.
