Jersey City’s mayor called on Tuesday for a school board member to resign over a Facebook post in which she called Jews who had moved to the city “brutes” and suggested a deeper “message” to the deadly attack at a kosher market there last week.

The mayor, Steven Fulop, was reacting to remarks posted online over the weekend by the board member, Joan Terrell-Paige, who is black. In her post, she questioned the outpouring of fellowship and support for Jersey City’s Jewish residents in the wake of the Dec. 10 attack.

“Where was all this faith and hope when Black homeowners were threatened, intimidated, and harassed by I WANT TO BUY YOUR HOUSE brutes of the jewish community,” Terrell-Paige wrote in the post, which has since been deleted. Terrell-Paige was elected to the school board in November 2018.

Such an attitude, Fulop wrote on Twitter, was unacceptable.

“My opinion is she should resign,” he wrote. “That type of language has no place in our schools and no place amongst elected officials.”

The mayor also characterized Terrell-Paige’s remarks as well outside the mainstream.

“Her comments don’t represent Jersey City or the sentiment in the community at all,” he wrote in a separate post. He did not respond to requests for further comment.

The president of the school board, Sudhan Thomas, said that Terrell-Paige’s statements did not reflect the Board of Education’s “outlook or value system.”

“There is no room for any kind of hate or bigotry in Jersey City,” he said in a statement.

Terrell-Paige ended her post by saying that she was “speaking as a private citizen not as an elected member of the Jersey City Board of Education” and that “these beliefs are mine and mine alone.”

Terrell-Paige could not immediately be reached for comment. Asked by Politico whether she regretted her Facebook post, she said, “No, I don’t.”

Late Tuesday, Gov. Phil Murphy of New Jersey also called on Terrell-Page to resign. “We will not let anti-Semitism and hate go unchallenged in our communities,’’ he wrote on Twitter. “In light of Ms. Terrell-Paige’s comments, I urge her to immediately resign from the Jersey City Board of Education.

The uproar over Terrell-Paige’s remarks came a week after Jersey City was plunged into a panic after two people fatally shot a police officer before mounting the deadly assault on the kosher market. It also coincided with the funeral for the slain officer, Detective Joseph Seals, a grim occasion for a city still reeling from one of the most violent days in its recent history.

Elsewhere in her Facebook post, Terrell-Paige included references to other ways that, she suggested, Jewish interlopers had wronged black residents of the largely African American Greenville section.

The store that was attacked, the JC Kosher Supermarket, opened in Greenville about three years ago. It caters to a small, but growing, number of about 100 Hasidic families who have arrived in recent years after being priced out of the Williamsburg section of Brooklyn.

Relations between the newcomers and longtime residents have sometimes been tense. Fulop, a grandson of Holocaust survivors, said in a 2017 interview that while Jersey City took pride in its diversity, there had been some “very aggressive solicitation.”

“They literally go door to door and can be very pushy trying to purchase someone’s house,” he said. “It’s not the best way to endear yourself to the community, and there’s been a lot of pushback.”

Elsewhere in her remarks, Terrell-Paige, who lives in the area, invoked the man and woman identified by law enforcement authorities as the assailants in the attack, David N. Anderson and Francine Graham.

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Officials have said that the two, both African American, were driven by anti-Semitism to attack the kosher store and that they had expressed interest in the Black Hebrew Israelites, a fringe group.

After storming the store with guns drawn, they engaged in a protracted firefight with the police. When the standoff ended after several hours, they were found dead inside the store, along with three other people, two of them Jewish and one a Latin American immigrant.

“I believe they knew they would come out in body bags,” Terrell-Paige wrote of Anderson and Graham. “What is the message they were sending? Are we brave enough to explore the answer to their message? Are we brave enough to stop the assault on the Black communities of America?”