he intended to commit a hate crime but didn't commit a hate crime
In other crimes you might be able to make this distinction (for instance, if someone shoots someone with a gun but does not kill that person, it would be attempted manslaughter or attempted homicide, depending on the intent).
But for hate crimes, a different set of criteria would apply. An "intent to commit a hate crime" would be one where a person puts a bomb at a religious building, for instance, but the bomb fails to go off and then they catch the criminal.
In this case, the guy specifically attacked someone based on an ethnic or religious (or both) basis. That is the definition of a hate crime. Whether or not the person actually was that ethnicity or religion becomes entirely irrelevant. ESPECIALLY when you have witnesses and possibly video recording of the person specifically targeting Jews.
all thats fine but at the end of the day he didn't commit a hate crime so how can you be charged with a hate crime
if i say i wanna attack a black person then rob a store is that a hate crime?
before you cry about the analogy, my intent (desire to attack black people) caused the crime no? ---