Union Minister for Minorities Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi said that "immediate action should be taken against the police officer" if the allegations are true. He stressed that the government would respond if police or officials were found to have carried out "atrocities on the people."

In a video that went viral on social media and was shared by local news outlets, a senior police officer in Meerut, Uttar Pradesh confronts a group of Muslims rallying against the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA).

"If you don't want to live here, go to Pakistan," the cop told the group. He also threatened to "throw them all in jail" and "destroy them," according to translations provided by Indian media.

He later told reporters that some young men were hurling stones at police and shouting pro-Pakistan slogans during the protest. "I asked them if they love Pakistan so much, then they should go there."

Meerut Additional Director General (ADG) Prashant Kumar defended the incendiary comments, claiming the policeman was trying to control a protest that was turning violent. "The officer only asked them to stop pelting stones and [said] they can go there [Pakistan] if they wanted to," Kumar said.

Meerut has been the scene of violent clashes amid nationwide unrest over the CAA. Five people died there last week, and relatives reportedly claim they were shot dead by police.

Officers denied killing anyone, saying they opened fire only to control the crowd. They also suggested that violent armed protesters might be responsible for the deaths, as their shots went astray. Police released CCTV footage purportedly showing demonstrators with firearms.

The result is a multi-layered cake of excuses and fear at confronting a wider range of perpetrators of antisemitism in New York. If violent antisemitism that sees Jews controlling the police and being responsible for slavery and white supremacy, is growing in the African American community in America then confronting it requires asking a minority community that is also a victim to be self-critical. In the US there tends to be pass for minority groups who are homophobic or racist. Society can only confront one kind of racism. This is largely because those driving the agenda of confronting racism either have blinders on regarding all forms of racism and antisemitism or are unaware of it because they don't conduct surveys and polls regarding the prevalence of antisemitism in places like Brooklyn. When the perpetrators and victims do not fit a convenient model, it is easier to just excuse the attacks or see them as random. Unfortunately, in the US these attacks are not random, and there is rising violent antisemitism coming from a broad spectrum of communities, including white supremacists and from African Americans. Confronting it requires the same broad spectrum to step up the struggle.

"This is intolerance meets ignorance meets illegality," Cuomo told reporters on Sunday, calling the attack the 13th incidence of anti-Semitism in recent weeks. "This is violence spurred by hate, it is mass violence, and I consider it an act of domestic terrorism."

Police have arrested the alleged perpetrator, though his possible terrorist motives are unknown. The man was arrested without struggle in Harlem shortly after midnight.

The attack took place during the Jewish holiday of Hanukkah, as Rabbi Rottenberg was hosting around 100 people in his home for the lighting of the candle marking the seventh night of the holiday. The rabbi's home is located in Rockland County, which has the highest per-capita population of Jews of any US county.

The New York Police Department's counterterrorism unit said it is "closely monitoring" the incident. Prior to the attack, Mayor Bill de Blasio announced that the NYPD would step up patrols in Jewish neighborhoods of New York City, citing a string of recent anti-Semitic attacks.

Witness Aron Kohn described the moment the suspect walked into the Rabbi's residence and began attacking with a knife he described as almost as big as "a broomstick."

"I saw him walking in by the door. I asked who was coming in in the middle of the night with an umbrella. While I was saying that, he pulled it out from the thing and he started to run into the big room, which was on the left side. And I had thrown tables and chairs, that he should get out of here. And the injured guy, he was bleeding here, bleeding in his hand, all over," Kohn said. "I ran into the other room to save my life. I saw him running this way, so I ran the other way to save my life. He said something but I could not understand what he said. I saw him pull out the knife from the holder, the case."

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