I’m the writer of this story, if you get blocked by the paywall you can use this free link to read!

Will you also write about Palestinian suffering in Occupied Territories or anti-African racism in Israel or the ultranationalist, openly Anti-Arab politician being chosen as national security minister in Netanyahu’s new government?

You’re an extreme ignoramus. The Forward runs stories about that kind of thing all the time.

As a pro-Palestine person, this is one of the most tone deaf comments I've ever read.

Will you please write an article about all of the oppressed people you forgot to mention? Because you forgot about a lot of them. And if you didn't write an article about them, you shouldn't say anything, ever. Please write that article or delete your account. Thank you.

This is an awesome thing to do, thank you!

I’m a generally pro-Palestinian Jew from Essex County and this comment is very not cool. What does Palestinian suffering have to do with the murder of American Jews? Why do those two things have to be discussed together?

Not for nothing but a Latino employee was murdered as well in this incident and I find it a little bizarre he barely gets mentioned in these headlines/comments just because he wasn’t Jewish. It wasn’t just “American Jews” who were murdered that day.

That was not my intent. Have you looked at this website? Please browse through forward.com OP writes for. It has Israel section in it. I didn’t say to discuss together but when only suffering mentioned is Jewish one and not the hispanic male who was murdered in same day as an example. How about human rights violations of minorities in Israel that needs some coverage as this news site that claims to be “independent”.

I’ve triggered you for simply asking OP to write about suffering of minorities in Israel on a self claimed “independent” website that has a separate Israel section. How sensitive are you?

Agreed.

Let’s listen to the guy who calls himself a “liberal Zionist” on this one ya’ll. We got an unbiased perspective in the house.

Oooooh triggered. So cool.

Edit: you removed the term "triggered" because you realized it sounded bad, when you should have just removed your first comment all together.

Not as cool as you

How braindead does someone have to be think all jews = Israel

Dummy doesn't even realize that Israel = united states

Why don't you look closer to home toxic liberal wannabe who cannot formulate their own ideas.

The Forward runs many great articles from a wide range of perspectives, including by and about Palestinians.

Example: The op-eds here — https://forward.com/authors/muhammad-shehada/

Implying that The Forward never tries to present the Palestinian perspective is like implying that Haaretz doesn’t try to present the Palestinian perspective and that Al Jazeera doesn’t try to present the Jewish or Israeli perspectives.

Those are publications where people make heroic efforts to show the world how it is as well as they can. If folks want to look at how they fall short of their ideals and still end up being biased, great. But to imply that any of these three publications isn’t making an effort to present “the other side” reflects a lack of familiarity with those publications.

I can't believe it's already been three years. I remember being so confused and scared as this went on. This was also the event that introduced me to Black Hebrew Isrealites. It's sad to see that the movement has only seemingly gained more attention since then.

Why do you think the Latino employee isn’t mentioned as much in the headlines?

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I have no idea that’s why I find it bizarre.

No thanks. I’d rather support your work and pay the cost. Writers deserve it, and thats your hard work.

Edit: downvoted for wanting to show the OP/writer support. 🤷‍♂️

Al Jazeera has been blindly promoting Qatar as a tourist destination and the World Cup in general while completely ignoring all the human rights violations that have and continue to occur there so I guess you could say they probably do have a lot in common with Forward as a publication!

This type of accidentally anti Semitic whataboutism is why folks don’t take BDS seriously. Israel/Palestine has nothing to do with members of a black supremacist cult murdering Jewish and non-Jewish Americans solely due to their identity. Next you’re going to pin violence in Greenville on the KKk.

It’s pretty obvious the person who left the comment’s issue was that the story was being shared by a pro-Israel news source. It’s not antisemitic to criticize Israel.

Israel has nothing to do with a hate crime in JC.

No one is saying it did. Relax. You can get the same story from a news source that isn’t pro-Israel was the point.

The Forward is not a pro-Israel or anti-Israel news source, it was founded the same year as the Zionist Congress but actually descends from the Bundist community of European Jews.

You’re not going to find any mention of Israel in its mission statement, but yes we absolutely do report on Israel because it’s of great interest to the American Jewish community!

thanks for your support!