Contextualizing the Jersey City Shooting

Two days after a heavily armed couple engaged in a violent standoff with Jersey City police, killing four people at a small kosher market in a growing Hasidic neighborhood before they themselves were killed, law enforcement and elected officials labelled the shooting “terrorism.” New Jersey Attorney General Gurbir Grewal said the two perpetrators had a documented “hatred of the Jewish people, as well as a hatred of law enforcement,” based on the suspects’ social media posts. Amid the subsequent news coverage, the ideological motivation of the shooters has become a central focus of discussion.