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Dead attackers identified themselves as Black Hebrew Israelites, a movement known to rail against whites and Jews. Fears that a deadly shooting at a Jewish market in Jersey City was an anti-Semitic attack mounted as authorities recounted how a man and woman deliberately pulled up in a stolen rental van and got out shooting. Mayor Steve Fulop said surveillance video of the attackers made it clear they targeted the kosher market, and he pronounced the bloodshed a hate crime against Jews, as did New York's mayor and governor. Investigators say the two dead attackers - who were thought to be a couple - identified themselves in the past as Black Hebrew Israelites, a movement whose members have been known to rail against whites and Jews, according to a l...