Harmeet Dhillon, the assistant attorney general for civil rights, tweeted that she was instructing prosecutors to open a civil rights investigation into the ramming. “Antisemitism does not appear to be a factor in this,” Rabbi Mordechai Lightstone, who runs social media for Chabad, wrote in a tweet. A spokesperson for Chabad, Motti Seligson, also noted that the motivations behind the ramming were “unclear.” This was not a perfunctory comment. (Curiously, hours after Chabad officials began saying that the ramming was not motivated by antisemitism, U.S. Of course, there was ample reason to assume that this ramming was indeed an antisemitic attack.