With the reports came the commentary, tying the event to rising antisemitism generally and, more specifically, to New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s anti-Israel rhetoric and fraught relationship with the Jewish community. The satirical Twitter account “Rabbi Linda Goldstein,” which lampoons progressive antisemitism with sarcasm, wrote in a tongue-in-cheek post that “there is no evidence the car ramming attack at 770 Chabad HQ was an anti-Semitic attack. “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. Of course, there was ample cause to assume that this ramming was indeed an antisemitic attack.