Hateful antisemitic messages have been scrawled outside The Free Press headquarters – days after founder Bari Weiss labeled the Hamas terror attack “the greatest massacre of Jews since the Holocaust.”
Weiss — the author of “How to Fight Anti-Semitism” who famously resigned as a New York Times star columnist in 2020 because of bias — tweeted a photo Sunday of graffiti including “F–k Jews” and “F–k Israel.”
“If the antisemite who did this thought it would scare me and the journalists [The Free Press]they don’t know me, they don’t know us, and they don’t know what we stand for,” Weiss wrote in a message that was viewed more than 2.4 million times by early Monday.
Its independent news channel has offices in New York City and Los Angeles. It’s not clear from Weiss’s post which of the two locations was damaged.
The incident comes just weeks after Weiss, 39, appeared on Fox News and declared the Oct. 7 attack on Israel by Hamas terrorists “the greatest massacre of Jews since the Holocaust.”
This was written outside our office this week.
If the antisemite who did this thought it would scare me and the reporter @TheFPthey don’t know me, they don’t know us, and they don’t know what we stand for. pic.twitter.com/2CsIqrqz5V
— Bari Weiss (@bariweiss) October 22, 2023
Its main objective now is to shed light on the fate of the Jews who were attacked in the slaughter of more than 1,400 people, mostly civilians, with more than 200 others also taken hostage, he said.
“That’s what I focus on,” he said. “Try to tell their story and demand that the world wake up. Try to help the world understand that what is happening here is not just another war in Israel. It was an unspeakable massacre.”
Journalist Geoffrey Cain, who has covered the war for The Free Press in Israel, responded to Weiss’s post on Sunday, denouncing the hateful act of vandalism as “a sad sign of the times in the US.”
Weiss called the October 7 attack on Israel by Hamas terrorists “the greatest massacre of Jews since the Holocaust.”University of Austin
In her resignation letter to the Times, Weiss stated how it took her “courage” to show up at work where she was attacked for “writing about Jews again.”
Antisemitic attacks have been on the rise in the US and around the world since Israel began pounding Gaza with retaliatory airstrikes ahead of a planned ground offensive aimed at eliminating Hamas.
Synagogues in Massachusetts, Pennsylvania and Rhode Island have been targeted with fake bomb threats and prank calls over the past two weeks.
The US Department of Homeland Security has warned in a new intelligence assessment that hate crimes targeting Jews, Muslims and Arabs are on the rise amid the escalating conflict in the Middle East.
In London, two Jewish primary schools were splashed with red paint, and in Tunisia and the Spanish region of North Africa, two synagogues were attacked by pro-Palestinian protesters.
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