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Airing dirty laundry: A Republican running to represent a New York congressional district that includes suburbs of Buffalo took to the airwaves last year to express admiration for Adolf Hitler’s leadership style. During a February 2021 radio appearance, Carl Paladino, a businessman whose campaign has been endorsed by Rep. Elise Stefanik, the third-ranked Republican in…
Last Tuesday, the Forward published an article originally headlined, “The Buffalo shooter targeted Black people. But his screed focuses on Jews.” After feedback from several Black Jews, the Forward changed the headline, to address concerns that the article focused on the Jewish community rather than the Black community that suffered the loss of life. Even…
My mother taught me that a shiva is not a party. We are not there for the food. We are not there to catch up with our friends. We are there for a specific purpose: to comfort the mourners. To tend to the needs the grieving cannot do for themselves. To be a presence and…
The recent shooting in Buffalo has revived America’s dialogue around the “great replacement theory,” the conspiracy that the alleged gunman — and many others who have targeted racial minorities, immigrants, Jews, Muslims and queer people — have cited as inspiration. The theory, which originated in the early 20th century but has been prevalent in white…
This is an adaptation of Looking Forward, a weekly email from our editor-in-chief sent on Friday afternoons. Sign up here to get the Forward’s free newsletters delivered to your inbox. Download and print our free magazine of stories to savor over Shabbat and Sunday. On Tuesday, three days after the horrific Buffalo supermarket massacre targeting Black…
After a gunman murdered 10 African Americans at a Buffalo grocery store Saturday, two of the social media websites the alleged killer used to plan and promote the attack — Twitch and Discord — announced quick action in response. The 18-year-old suspect identified by police appeared to have used Twitch to livestream a video of the shooting as it…
A mass shooting at a Tops Friendly Market in Buffalo, N.Y. killed 10 and wounded three, and opened a national conversation about the insidiousness of the racist and antisemitic conspiracy theories that appear to have motivated the suspected shooter. It also deprived a predominantly Black neighborhood of its primary grocery store. Beyond the Tops, the…
When an 18-year-old gunman entered a supermarket in Buffalo and opened fire Saturday, killing 10 people, he was targeting Black people. In the diatribe he published to explain his motivations, though, he focuses more on another group: Jews. In a Q&A in which he both poses and answers the questions, the suspect, Payton S. Grendon,…
