Thursday, May 22, 2025
Brendan O'Neill: The pogrom comes to Washington
Two Israeli embassy staffers gunned down in the prime of their lives. Young lovers shot to death for the ‘crime’ of taking pride in Jewish heritage. He had bought a ring and was planning to propose to her next week in Jerusalem, the capital of the Jewish people’s homeland. We need to speak frankly about the vile slaying of Sarah Lynn Milgrim and Yaron Lischinsky in Washington, DC last night. It was, in President Trump’s words, ‘obviously based on anti-Semitism’. It was an act of racist savagery that speaks to the anti-civilisational delirium that pumps in the veins of Israelophobia. It was the pogrom come to Washington.Melanie Phillips: Blood on their hands
Ms Milgrim and Mr Lischinsky were staff members at the Israeli Embassy in DC. Last night, they were shot dead as they left an event at the Capital Jewish Museum. It was a cocktail-fuelled reception for ‘young diplomats’ aimed at ‘fostering unity and celebrating Jewish heritage’. The suspect in this sick crime was reportedly wearing a keffiyeh. ‘Free Palestine’, he hollered as he allegedly put bullets into the embassy staffers. ‘Globalise the intifada’, the drones of the Israelophobic mob have been shouting since Hamas’s pogrom of 7 October 2023. Well, here it is, being globalised: Hamas-style savagery in the beating heart of the Western world.
America’s politicians are not mincing their words. This was a ‘deadly act of anti-Semitic violence’, says Hakeem Jeffries, the Democratic leader in the House of Representatives. It’s hard to see what else it could be. If you lurk with a gun outside an event at a Jewish museum devoted to celebrating Jewish heritage, and callously butcher those who come out, it’s pretty clear what your motives are. That the suspect was allegedly wearing a keffiyeh and yelling about Gaza is not surprising: Jew hate comes gussied up in the Palestine colours these days. The fascist imagination disguises itself in faux-progressive talk about Palestine.
We await more information about the suspect. It remains to be seen if he worked alone or with others. So far as we know, one man bears responsibility for this savage act: the person who pulled the trigger. But it would be wrong, catastrophic in fact, to overlook the context in which this crime against the Jewish people unfolded. We cannot close our ears to the mood music in our societies – the screeching surround sound, in fact – that at the very least makes outrages like this one that bit more likely. We are living through the most ruthless, most relentless demonisation of the Jewish State in the entire 77 years of its existence. And it is hard to see last night’s double slaughter as anything other than the militarisation of that fashionable spite, the armed wing of a loathing for Israel that long ago crossed the line from political critique into neo-medieval hysteria.
The United Nations is the world’s principal engine of these falsehoods and distortions. It routinely pumps out Hamas statistics that turn out to have no basis in reality; it both draws upon and feeds in turn the malevolent untruths issued by bodies such as the International Criminal Court, the International Court of Justice, and the big NGOs like Amnesty and Human Rights Watch.Seth Mandel: Extinguish the Gaslight Forever
The consequences of this behavior go far beyond harming the State of Israel to put every Jew at risk and to trap the West inside a sinister mindset that undermines civilization itself.
As has often been noted, the reason liberals hate Israel is because they think that Zionism is a colonialist ideology and that Israel oppresses the indigenous people of the land.
Israel, where the indigenous people are, in fact, the Jews, is actually the historic victim and current target of Arab colonialism, and Zionism is the ultimate decolonization movement. Nevertheless, Israel is deemed to be colonialist and white. That’s because it’s thought of as a Western nation and is therefore inescapably mired in the West’s original sins of colonialism, racism and whiteness, even though the majority of Jews have moved there from other Middle Eastern countries that they were forced to leave and are dark-skinned.
It’s an article of progressive faith that the Western nation is the source of division, oppression and war. Its institutions and laws should therefore be trumped by transnational institutions such as the United Nations and international courts that represent the world, and are thus assumed to possess a moral legitimacy that the Western nation lacks.
Given these institutions’ appalling attitudes towards Israel and Zionism, however, this has helped drive the West off its moral compass.
Moreover, since Zionism is the self-determination of the Jewish people in their historic homeland of Israel, and since Judaism fuses the religion with the people and the land, anti-Zionism is unarguably anti-Judaism.
But there’s even worse.
To those who believe that Israel is a colonialist occupier that’s driven out the rightful inhabitants of the land and that it’s committing war crimes in Gaza, it follows that Israel and Zionism are evil. So, too, therefore, are those Jews who support Israel and Zionism.
If something or someone is evil, it’s not only permissible to loathe, detest and try to destroy them. It’s a moral obligation to do so. If Israel, Zionism and the Jews are evil, then it’s a moral obligation to loathe, detest and try to destroy them.
To the Western liberal, for whom Zionism is racism and Israel starves babies to death, antisemitism is therefore not just the shield behind which the Jews sanitize Israel’s crimes. It’s no longer a uniquely murderous and deranged creed that all people of conscience must oppose. Horrifyingly, for the Western liberal, antisemitism has become a moral obligation.
We’ve gone through the looking-glass into a nightmarish landscape where evil is being embraced as virtue. The shocking murders in Washington, D.C., are the result.
From the French revolutionary terror in the 18th century through the mind control of communism to the tyranny of fascism, a desire to bring about the perfection of the world has led instead to tyranny and mass slaughter. Today, Western liberals have become the accomplices of Islamo-Nazism through their own misguided fantasies about the brotherhood of man.
So it has come to pass that the global humanitarian establishment of transnational institutions and human-rights law that was established after the defeat of Nazism to ensure that such a terrible evil should never arise again, has itself become a monstrous force inciting the conditions for a second Holocaust.
No one ever shouts “Free Palestine” while holding up a copy of the Declaration of Principles on Interim Self-Government Arrangements Including Its Annexes and Its Agreed Minutes.Eitan Fischberger: Blood Libels Lead to Bloodshed
The Oslo accords, as they are better known, are not of much interest to the Palestine movement in the West. When activists in this movement hold maps, they do not look like the one Ehud Olmert offered Mahmoud Abbas, a detailed illustration of every demand Abbas made that shows Israel and Palestine living side by side.
“Free, free Palestine” were the words shouted last night by the anti-Zionist who was arrested for the murder outside the Capital Jewish Museum of Sarah Milgrim and Yaron Lischinsky, a young couple who were about to travel to Jerusalem and get engaged to be married. It is the chosen phrase for a great many people, none of whom—not one—envisions a peaceful outcome to this conflict. Yaron and Sarah were the opposite—budding diplomats with a bone-deep desire for peace and coexistence. There is no room for such people in “free, free Palestine.” They worked for the Israeli embassy, where there is always room for such people.
What we owe ourselves, as a community, after this monstrous act is to stop playing along with the gaslighting of those forever trying to wipe us off the face of the earth. May we stop saying or hearing the endlessly insulting formulation that “many Jews interpret” various Hamasnik slogans as threats or incitement or justification for violence against innocents. They are not ambiguous. We don’t interpret these slogans at all. We simply hear them.
“Globalize the intifada” cannot be “interpreted by some Jews as a call for violence.” It simply is. We do not say that when Elias Rodriguez allegedly pointed a loaded gun at Sarah Milgrim and Yaron Lischinsky, his actions were “interpreted by some Jews as a threat.” When he allegedly squeezed the trigger, it was not “interpreted by some Jews” as murder. What he was doing at that moment was globalizing the intifada, just as he’d been told to do for the better part of two years by everyone with a Ph.D.
We Jews can have granular Talmudic discussions on just about anything. The reason we don’t have such debates over “from the river to the sea, Palestine will be free” is because there’s nothing to discuss. Contrary to what you might read in mainstream newspapers, there is no disagreement over what it means. Everyone knows what it means—it is a slogan explicitly (the original phrasing, changed to rhyme in English, is “Palestine is Arab”) calling for genocide. It’s true that some people lie about what it means, or might mean. But that’s not the same thing as there being a genuine debate.
Sarah Lynn Milgrim and Yaron Lischinsky were murdered in cold blood this week in Washington, D.C. The young Israeli diplomats — a couple planning to get engaged — were gunned down outside a Jewish museum by a man radicalized by Hamas propaganda.
Their killer, Elias Rodriguez, didn’t flee or hide. He left behind a manifesto — not inspired by ISIS or al-Qaeda, but by Hamas. More specifically, by Hamas propaganda: the kind funneled through its “health ministry,” broadcast by its “information office,” and repeated uncritically by a willing chorus of Western journalists, activists, and NGOs.
Rodriguez cites the now-standard menu of disinformation: 53,000 killed, 10,000 trapped under rubble, an imminent famine, burned corpses of children, and mass death allegedly ignored by the West. Virtually all of these claims originate from Hamas-run institutions, fabricated or grossly exaggerated for shock value. And yet, these lies are repeated endlessly — not just by fringe radicals but by UN officials, Ivy League students, and legacy media outlets.
Just one day before the murders, the a top UN humanitarian official lied that “14,000 babies” were at risk of dying in Gaza within 48 hours — a fabricated statistic that went viral worldwide. The number was baseless, unverified, and retracted under pressure — but not before it had reached billions of people. That’s the information ecosystem we’re living in. Hamas invents it, the UN amplifies it, and the consequences are real.
This isn’t misinformation. It’s incitement.
Yaron Lischinsky and Sarah Milgrim identified as victims in Jewish museum shooting
The two Israeli embassy staffers who were shot to death outside the Capital Jewish Museum in Washington, D.C., on Wednesday night have been identified as Yaron Lischinsky and Sarah Milgrim.My Friend Yaron
“Yaron and Sarah were our friends and colleagues. They were in the prime of their lives,” the Embassy of Israel in the United States posted on social media. “The entire embassy staff is heartbroken and devastated by their murder. No words can express the depth of our grief and horror at this devastating loss.”
The embassy shared a photo of the couple together that Lischinsky had posted on Twitter earlier in the month. It appeared to have been taken during an event at the embassy to mark Israel’s 77th Independence Day.
The couple both said they were working toward peace in the Middle East.
Lischinsky was a German immigrant to Israel who served in the Israeli army before studying international relations and diplomacy at multiple Israeli universities, according to his LinkedIn profile. He had worked at Israel’s embassy to the United States since September 2022 and was currently a research assistant focusing on Middle East and North African affairs, according to the profile.
“I’m an ardent believer in the vision that was outlined in the Abraham Accords and believe that expanding the circle of peace with our Arab neighbors and pursuing regional cooperation is in the best interest of the State of Israel and the Middle East as a whole,” Lischinsky wrote on LinkedIn. “To this end, I advocate for interfaith dialogue and intercultural understanding.”
Lischinsky was a Christian whose support for Israel was entwined with his religious identity, according to his own social media posts and that of a friend after his death. (He said on his LinkedIn page that he made aliyah, or immigrated to Israel under the Law of Return, at 16; aliyah is open to Jews and the children and grandchildren of Jews who do not subscribe to religions other than Judaism.) “Israel is the only place in the ME where Christians can thrive,” he tweeted in 2021. “Not perfect, but livable (speaking as a Christian myself).”
Milgrim graduated from the University of Kansas in 2021 and earned two master’s degrees, in international affairs from American University and from the United Nations’ University for Peace, before beginning a role in the embassy’s Department of Public Diplomacy in 2023, according to her LinkedIn profile.
“My passion lies at the intersection of peacebuilding, religious engagement, and environmental work,” she wrote on LinkedIn, noting research that she had conducted research on behalf of a nonprofit, Tech2Peace, that trains Palestinians and Israelis to work together in the tech sector.
Milgrim grew up in the Kansas City suburbs, where her family has been affiliated with Reform synagogues, and was a teenager when a white supremacist shot and killed three people at Jewish institutions in that city. In her senior year of high school, she was active in responding after swastikas were painted at her high school. “I worry about going to my synagogue and now I have to worry about safety at my school and that shouldn’t be a thing,” she told a local news station at the time.
On Wednesday evening, Yaron Lischinsky and his girlfriend, Sarah Lynn Milgrim, were shot and killed outside the Capital Jewish Museum in Washington, D.C., by an anti-Israel militant. Soon to be engaged, Lischinsky and Milgrim both worked at the Israeli embassy. The Free Press is honored to publish this piece by Lischinsky’s friend Mariam Wahba.Father Of Murdered Israeli Embassy Staffer Says Daughter Was Dedicated To Peace-Building
I first met Yaron Lischinsky almost two years ago, at McCormick & Schmick’s steakhouse on K Street in Washington, D.C. I was new to the city and looking for new friends when we connected on X. I ordered a gin and tonic. He got nothing.
In typical Washington intro-meetings fashion, we began that awkward dance of “So what do you do?” I launched into the usual spiel about my work covering the Middle East for the Foundation for Defense of Democracies. But soon enough, the conversation veered, sharply and inevitably, toward my favorite subject: Christians in the Middle East, a community we were both members of.
Yaron sat quietly, listening more intently than most people ever do. “Then there was the First Council of Nicaea in 425 AD. . . ” I began. “325,” he gently corrected me, with a small, amused smile. Then he ordered a drink too.
That moment told me all I needed to know about Yaron. He was precise, but never performative. He loved truth, not triumph.
He told me how his family lived in Israel before they moved to Germany, about moving back when he was 16, and knowing, early and without hesitation, that he wanted to be a diplomat and peacemaker. Language came easily to him: Hebrew, Japanese, English, and of course, his native German. He moved through the world with care and thoughtfulness, as if everyone and everything he touched might break.
We became fast friends. A month later, he came to my birthday dinner and quickly smoothed over a heated debate between two friends without anyone realizing he’d done it. That was Yaron’s way—you could feel him, but never notice him.
The father of 26-year-old Sarah Milgrim, an American Jew who was murdered Wednesday night, said his daughter was dedicated to peace-building.Israeli Embassy victims remembered as ‘the perfect diplomat’ and ‘committed to peace’
Milgrim was murdered by 30-year-old Elias Rodriguez, a keffiyeh-wearing gunman with ties to radical leftist groups, who later shouted “Free Palestine” while in police custody. The shooter said he “did this for Gaza” in the moments after the shooting, according to Sky News.
Robert Milgrim, 73, told the New York Post that his daughter was attending an event about getting more humanitarian aid to Gazans.
“Last night, she was attending an affair to figure out how to get more aid into Gaza,” Milgrim said. “The night she was killed, she was trying to help the situation – that’s the irony.”
Milgrim, who grew up in the Kansas City suburbs, was a full-time employee at the embassy’s Department of Public Diplomacy. She got her Master of Arts at American University and was also a graduate of the University for Peace.
Her “About” section on her LinkedIn says her “passion lies at the intersection of peacebuilding, religious engagement, and environmental work.”
Robert reportedly said his daughter spent multiple summers in Israel working with “peace-building groups” to mend the divide between Israelis and Arabs.
Milgrim, who was Jewish and originally from Kansas, moved to Washington to receive a master’ s degree from American University. She graduated in 2023 with a degree in International Affairs. “I am deeply saddened by this senseless act,” Jonathan Alger, the university’s president, said in a statement. “Sarah was only beginning her life’s journey, and it is anguishing that her light was taken away because of hate.”Full remarks: Sa’ar speaks after terrorist murder of DC embassy staffers
“Antisemitism is a scourge that must be stopped,” Alger said.
Growing up, Milgrim was active in the small, tightknit Jewish community of Overland Park, Kan. In high school, she participated in the Orthodox Union-run Jewish youth group NCSY’s Jewish Student Union network of public school clubs. “Sarah was one of ours. And we will not forget her,” Micah Greenland, director of NCSY, said in a statement.
“We were privileged to witness Sarah’s passion for Israel and the Jewish people firsthand through her involvement in the Senator Jerry Moran Israel Scholars program,” Greenland said, referring to the Kansas senator.
Those who knew both of the young victims echoed that the theme of Wednesday night’s event — “Turning Pain Into Purpose,” discussing humanitarian aid initiatives, including in Gaza, and working to counter the rising tide of “us versus them” narratives — was among the topics the two were most passionate about.
Paige Siegel, who was a guest at the event, told JI that she heard two sets of multiple shots ring out, and then an individual, who police have since identified as suspected shooter Elias Rodriguez, a 30-year-old man from Chicago, entered the building appearing disoriented and panicked, seconds after the shooting ended.
Siegel recounted that she spoke to the man, asking him if he had been shot. He appeared panicked and was mumbling and repeatedly told bystanders to call the police. Siegel, who attended the evening with her girlfriend who is not Jewish and was attending a Jewish event for the first time, said that she felt the man was suspicious. He was sitting in the building in a state of distress for approximately 10 to 15 minutes, according to Siegel who engaged him in conversation, informing him that he was in the Jewish museum.
After Siegel said that, she said the man started screaming, “I did it, I did it. Free Palestine. I did it for Gaza,” and opened a backpack, withdrawing a red keffiyeh before being detained by police. Security footage later confirmed that the man was Rodriguez, the shooter.
Jewish communities around the U.S. remained on high alert Thursday. Several D.C.-based Jewish organizations directed their employees to work from home. In New York, the state with the largest Jewish population, Gov. Kathy Hochul said enhanced security measures were implemented. New York City Mayor Eric Adams ordered increased NYPD presence at Jewish sites across the city, calling the murders “exactly what it means to globalize the intifada.”
Below is the full text of the remarks delivered by Israeli Foreign Minister Gideon Sa’ar during a press conference at his Jerusalem office following the May 21 murder of two Israeli embassy staffers in Washington, D.C.:
Yaron Lischinsky and Sarah Lynn Milgrim, two young representatives of the State of Israel, were murdered a few hours ago in a horrific terrorist attack in Washington.
My condolences go to their families and to the staff of the Israeli embassy in Washington, D.C.
I spoke this morning with Daniel, Yaron’s father. I told him that his son was a warrior on our diplomatic front who fell just like a soldier on the battlefield.
Yaron and Sarah were murdered at a Jewish conference of the AJC.
This is the direct result of toxic antisemitic incitement against Israel and Jews around the world that has been going on since the Oct. 7 massacre.
Recently, we have witnessed an unprecedented wave of terror attacks and attempts against Israeli missions around the world, with an emphasis on Europe.
Israeli missions and representatives around the world are targets of antisemitic terrorism that has crossed all red lines.
I spoke about this recently on our Remembrance Day at a ceremony for fallen foreign service members.
I have been worried for the past few months that something like this would happen, and it did. And the list of fallen foreign service members has grown today.
The Foreign Ministry in Jerusalem and Israeli missions around the world will lower our flags to half-mast following the murder of our workers.
Earlier, Prime Minister Netanyahu spoke with US Attorney General Pam Bondi, who promised that the murderer, and everyone who cooperated with him, would be brought to justice, and that the American administration would continue to fight vigorously against antisemitism.
— Prime Minister of Israel (@IsraeliPM) May 22, 2025
.@AGPamBondi on the murder of two @IsraelinUSA staffers last night: "Everyone in Washington, D.C., state, local, and federal agencies — and our great @USAttyPirro, who will be prosecuting this case — will be doing everything in our power to keep all citizens safe." 🙏 pic.twitter.com/Ef9GwlQWgs
— Rapid Response 47 (@RapidResponse47) May 22, 2025
According to this witness, Elias Rodriguez confessed to the double homicide. Another witness says that the victims were executed from behind. pic.twitter.com/3jqUpARmnp
— Marina Medvin 🇺🇸 (@MarinaMedvin) May 22, 2025
I am shocked and heartbroken by the brutal murder of two members of the Israeli delegation in an antisemitic shooting attack in the heart of Washington, D.C. My thoughts are with the families of the victims, the embassy staff, and the entire people of Israel at this painful hour.…
— עמיחי שיקלי - Amichai Chikli (@AmichaiChikli) May 22, 2025
We condemn in the strongest possible terms the murder of two staff members from the Embassy of Israel in Washington, DC. Our prayers are with their loved ones.
— Secretary Marco Rubio (@SecRubio) May 22, 2025
This was a brazen act of cowardly, antisemitic violence. Make no mistake: we will track down those responsible and…
Yaron and Sarah— working together at the Israeli Embassy in Washington D.C.— were murdered in a terrorist attack outside the Jewish Museum.
— Ambassador Ron Prosor (@Ron_Prosor) May 22, 2025
A young couple with a bright future planning their life together.
Yaron, born in Nuremberg, wasn’t just a colleague.
I had the privilege of… pic.twitter.com/0fu3usprAF
— Manhattan Institute (@ManhattanInst) May 22, 2025
John Podhoretz: Terrorist Attack on Jews in Washington
This is a different kind of event from the attacks on synagogues in Pennsylvania and California in 2018, which were the work of white supremacists. It happened at a secular Jewish site, and targeted an event sponsored by the American Jewish Committee for young diplomats. And it was self-evidently an act of anti-Semitic terror in the nation’s capital—which raises similarities to the 2015 attack on the Hyper Casher supermarket in France’s capital, Paris. The only analogue here I can think of was the invasion of the headquarters of the B’nai Brith in D.C. in 1977 by Hanafi Muslims, during which 104 staffers at the Jewish organization—including my wife’s cousin, William Korey, an expert on Soviet Jewry—were held hostage for three days and repeatedly threatened with execution and torture. Two other buildings in D.C. were invaded as well, and a security guard at one of them was shot in the head and killed.Terror in DC: Where We Go From Here
The terrorist leader was a convert to Islam critical of the Nation of Islam whose family was murdered in 1973—and who chose to blame the “Jewish judge” in charge of the conviction of the Farrakhanites who actually committed the killngs. He also demanded the suppression and burning of a movie called Mohammed, Messenger of God on the grounds that any depiction of the founder of Islam was a sacrilege—an eerie foreshadowing of the killing of the staffers at Charlie Hebdo magazine for publishing cartoons making fun of Muhammad, which took place in Paris two days before the attack on the supermarket in 2015. The leader gave up after three days; Bill Korey told me 30 years later that he still had nightmares about his captivity, a classic case of PTSD.
What we’re going to see over the next couple of days is predictable. Jewish institutions are going to scramble to increase security, as Jews huddle together for comfort. And as the hours and days pass, the shooting will be analyzed by the mainstream with an eye toward “explaining” the root causes of the crime and the criminal’s motivations—which is to say, a search for a way to excuse. We’ll hear that the real danger in the wake of this monstrous act will be a rise in Islamophobia rather than that this event is the culmination of the past 18 months of open anti-Semitic and Jew-hating action in the streets of major cities and on the campuses of our most prestigious academic institutions.
And we Jews will be arming ourselves.
The domestic terrorism unleashed in the nation’s capital is just a foretaste of what we can expect if universities and law enforcement, both local and federal, don’t change their approach. Indeed, one of the discontinuities between today’s wave of campus unrest and that of the 1960s has been the absence of widespread political violence across the country.Trump expresses ‘deep sorrow’ for Israeli embassy staffers killed in D.C. in call with Netanyahu
In the period of peak radicalism from the late 1960s into the 1970s, shootings, bombings, and hijackings perpetrated by leftwing groups were commonplace, with supporters of "Palestine" playing a prominent role. Between 1968 and 1972, 130 American planes were hijacked. Bobby Kennedy was assassinated on the campaign trail by a Palestinian radical. The Weather Underground terror group bombed targets, including the Capitol in 1971 and the State Department in 1975. In 1970 alone, there were over 450 incidents of domestic terrorism.
The terrorist who gunned down the Israeli embassy staffers Wednesday night before shouting "Free Palestine!" and "I did it for Gaza!" has ties to today’s wannabe versions of those groups, Black Lives Matter and the Party for Socialism and Liberation. He also worked at a left-wing nonprofit funded by the Ford and MacArthur foundations, themselves backers of a panoply of fringe political endeavors.
Jews are merely the most prominent targets. Businessmen like United CEO Brian Thompson have also become prey, as have law enforcement officers and janitors. The ultimate target of this movement is America and Western civilization.
Americans of good conscience, including those in the federal government, can act now—pressing for the death penalty in this case and scrutinizing every group with which the perpetrator was affiliated—or live to regret it later. We can’t say we weren’t warned.
In a call with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Thursday, U.S. President Donald Trump expressed “deep sorrow” over the antisemitic attack that killed two Israeli embassy staffers in Washington, D.C., on Wednesday night.
Netanyahu, in turn, thanked Trump for his administration’s efforts to combat antisemitism in the United States, according to the Prime Minister’s Office.
The victims, Yaron Lischinsky and Sarah Milgrim, were fatally shot as they were leaving an American Jewish Committee event at the Capital Jewish Museum.
“Yaron and Sarah weren’t the victims of a random crime. The terrorist who cruelly gunned them down did so for one reason and one reason alone—he wanted to kill Jews,” Netanyahu stated in a separate address.
The alleged shooter, Elias Rodriguez, was filmed shouting, “Free, free Palestine,” as he was taken into custody.
“For these neo-Nazis, ‘Free Palestine’ is just today’s version of ‘Heil Hitler,’” Netanyahu continued. “They don’t want a Palestinian state. They want to destroy the Jewish state.”
In his statement, Netanyahu also censured world leaders—primarily, French President Emmanuel Macron, Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney and U.K. Prime Minister Keir Starmer—for “proposing to establish a Palestinian state and reward these murderers with the ultimate prize.”
“These leaders may think that they’re advancing peace. They’re not,” he said. “They’re emboldening Hamas to continue fighting forever.”
“These horrible D.C. killings, based obviously on antisemitism, must end, NOW! Hatred and Radicalism have no place in the USA. Condolences to the families of the victims. So sad that such things as this can happen! God Bless You ALL!” —President Donald J. Trump pic.twitter.com/Z30bjAQOpZ
— The White House (@WhiteHouse) May 22, 2025
The First Lady Melania Trump rarely gets involved in matters of State. She has called for unity and deep reflection in response to the horrific 'Free Palestine' terror attack in Washington. 🇺🇸 pic.twitter.com/gZhUh9k6QN
— Ron M. (@Jewtastic) May 22, 2025
Terror forces at work at UN while blood of Israeli embassy staffers ‘not yet dry,’ Danon says
Danny Danon, the Israeli ambassador to the United Nations, slammed forces in the U.N. Security Council for “facilitating terrorism.”Arsen Ostrovsky: This is what 'globalize the intifada' looks like
“While the blood of Israeli representatives is not yet dry on the sidewalk in Washington, the Security Council is meeting to condemn Israel,” he stated. “This is a moral disgrace. Instead of condemning terrorism, it has become a tool serving those who carry it out.”
Algeria published a draft of an anti-Israel resolution “less than 24 hours after the brutal terror attack, in which two employees of the Israeli embassy in Washington were murdered,” Danon stated.
The Security Council will put the resolution to a vote on May 28.
“The draft demands the lifting of restrictions on the entry of humanitarian aid into Gaza, the release of prisoners and a complete withdrawal from Gaza—without mentioning Hamas or the terror attacks waged against Israel on Oct. 7, 2023,” the Israeli mission to the United Nations stated.
According to a copy viewed by JNS, the resolution draft in part expresses “grave concern over the catastrophic humanitarian situation and the latest developments in the Gaza Strip following the breach of the ceasefire agreement.”
This relentless campaign to isolate, sanction and vilify Israel does not occur in a vacuum. It clearly sends a message. A message that Israeli lives are worth less, that Jewish self-defence is unacceptable and that terrorism against Israelis may not only be tolerated, but tacitly justified.The murder of this young couple is what globalising the intifada means
And this message is being received loud and clear — by violent extremists on the streets of London, Paris, Montreal and now Washington, D.C., by radicalized students chanting genocidal slogans to “free Palestine” and to “globalize the intifada” on western campuses, and yes, by the killer who walked up to Israeli diplomats in Washington and ended their lives in cold blood.
Perhaps when the murderer from Washington and the jihadists from Gaza are shouting the same slogans as leaders from Europe and Canada, it might be time to rethink your policy?
What began in the halls of the United Nations, with its endless stream of one-sided resolutions condemning Israel, and the media, which has echoed one blood libel after another, has now metastasized into the language of western foreign ministries and international courts. The result is the normalization and mainstreaming of antisemitism and incitement, under the guise of diplomacy. And now, the consequences are being paid in blood.
This is certainly not the first time that the dehumanization of Jews has led to violence. But it is perhaps the first time in recent memory that it has been so directly aided and abetted by Israel’s supposed allies.
If the international community truly wishes to honour these two murder victims, it must begin by taking a long, hard look in the mirror.
It must start by ending the incessant double standards and opprobrium applied only to Israel — the sole democracy in the Middle East and the only state expected to fight a war against genocidal terrorists with one hand tied behind its back.
It must include a full-throated condemnation not just of the act of murder, but of the poisonous rhetoric and policy decisions that led to it.
This tragedy should be a wake-up call to every western leader. Appeasement of terror and appeasement of those who hate Israel does not bring peace. It brings more violence, more extremism and more death.
Because if your silence continues, if your condemnation remains reserved for Israel alone, then Wednesday night’s tragedy will sadly not be the last.
When one is engaged in the incessant demonisation of a nation fighting for survival, as is often the case at the United Nations, they run the risk not just of propagating hatred and intolerance, but licensing violence.FBI: “Pro-Palestinian” DC Shooter Continued Firing Into Victims As They Were On Ground
Elias Rodriguez, the 30-year-old suspected terrorist behind this slaughter, who was affiliated with a US-based Marxist group that lionises Hamas, shouted “free Palestine” on Wednesday evening as he was detained. He did so not as a cry for liberty, but as a clarion call for murder.
This depraved act of domestic terrorism also did not occur in a vacuum, nor was it an isolated outburst of violence. This past December, the FBI arrested a Virginia-based student for attempting a mass casualty attack on the Israeli consulate in New York.
Wednesday’s senseless act of violence is a painful reminder that there are very real consequences to murderous chants we have heard on our streets and college campuses, including “From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free” and “There is only one solution: intifada revolution”.
It is an unfortunate, terrifying reality that when antisemitic, anti-American movements repeatedly chant in support of “resistance by any means,” lunatics will heed those calls and innocent people will die. When antisemitism and anti-Israel incitement reach extreme heights, violence unfortunately follows. These are the same vile chants we heard in the aftermath of October 7, the deadliest day in Israel’s history.
We mourn this loss of life and our thoughts and prayers are with Yaron and Sharon’s families and loved ones.
While we are scarred and shaken, we will not stop fighting antisemitism in all its insidious manifestations. Terrorism will not deter us, and no violent organisation or individual seeking to “globalise the intifada” will stop us from proudly representing the State of Israel in the United States or anywhere else in the world.
The Feds have filed a Criminal Complaint and Supporting Affidavit against Elias Rodriguez for the shooting murder of two Israelis Embassy staffers killed outside an American Jewish Committee event at the Jewish Museum in DC. The Supporting Affidavit provides much more detail than has been reported, including how Rodriguez finished off his victims Yaron Lischinsky and Sarah Lynn Milgrim execution style after they already had been shot and were on the ground trying to crawl away.
Here are the charges:
18 U.S.C. § 1116 – Murder of Foreign Officials
18 U.S.C. § 924(j) – Causing the Death of a Person Through the Use of a Firearm
18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(1)(A)(iii) – Discharge of a Firearm During a Crime of Violence
D.C. Code § 22–2101 – First Degree Murder (two counts)
Here are excerpts from the Supporting Affidavit (emphasis added):
3. This affidavit is intended to show merely that there is sufficient probable cause for the requested complaint, and it does not set forth all of my knowledge about this matter.
6. On May 21, 2025, RODRIGUEZ shot and killed two individuals outside of 575 3rd St., Northwest, Washington, DC, which is site of the Capital Jewish Museum (“the Museum”). The Museum was hosting an event related to Jewish diplomatic and business relations, hosted by the American Jewish Committee, that aimed to “bring together Jewish young professionals and the D.C. diplomatic community.” The event was attended by several members of the United States based Israeli diplomatic mission.
8. Decedent-1, identified as Sarah Milgrim, was employed by the Embassy of Israel in Washington, D.C. The preliminary review of Decedent-1’s remains showed that she suffered multiple gunshot wounds to the body. Decedent-1 was transported from the scene by the District of Columbia’s Fire and Emergency Medical Services (DCFEMS) to the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner for the District of Columbia (OCME). Decedent-1 was pronounced dead at 9:35 pm by DCFEMS members under the authority of DCFEMS Dr. Vitburg. The results of the autopsy of Decedent-1 are pending.
9. Decedent-2, identified as Yaron Lischinsky, was employed by the Embassy of Israel, in Washington, D.C. Decedent-2 was pronounced deceased dead by DCFEMS members on the scene under the authority of DCFEMS Dr. Vitburg at 9:14 pm. Decedent-2 remained on the scene during the initial processing and until members of the OCME conducted their preliminary investigation of his remains. The results of the autopsy of Decedent-2 are pending.
10. Decedent-2 was an Israeli citizen. According to the Department of State, Decedent-2, based on his official visa, was an “official guest” of the United States government.
11. Upon arriving at the scene, MPD Officer-1 canvassed the area for cameras and observed several affixed to the Museum. Officer-1 and his partner (Officer-2) entered the building to inquire about the cameras and identify witnesses. Once inside, RODRIGUEZ asked to speak with the officer. RODRIGUEZ then stated that he “did it” and that he was unarmed. RODGRIQUEZ was taken into custody and identified by Illinois Driver’s license and Firearms Owner’s Identification Card as Elias A Rodriguez.
12. RODRIGUEZ spontaneously stated on scene to MPD, “I did it for Palestine, I did it for Gaza, I am unarmed.” RODRIGUEZ was holding a red scarf identified by one witness as a “Kaffiyeh.” As MPD officers were escorting RODRIQUEZ from the Museum, he shouted “Free Palestine.”
13. On scene, multiple witnesses were identified and interviewed. Witness-1 (W-1) stated that W-1 was outside of the Jewish Museum sitting in a car when W-1 saw a male, later identified as RODRIGUEZ, wearing a blue hooded raincoat and a backpack, attempting to light a cigarette in the rain. W-1 found the Defendant’s behavior strange, and it captured W-1’s attention. Prior to the shooting, W-1 saw four people walking out of the Jewish Museum and, soon after, W-1 heard gunshots. W-1 ducked down and, after the gunshots ceased, looked again. W-1 saw that RODRIGUEZ motioning as if he was attempting to shoot the firearm, but it was not firing. RODRIGUEZ then ran away. W-1 observed RODRIGUEZ motion with his arm as if he was throwing an object. W-1 later explained that Police located a firearm in the vicinity of where W-1 observed RODRIGUEZ make the throwing motion
The Affidavit then describes surveillance video:
15. On scene, MPD officers were able to review surveillance video from immediately before and during the shooting that captured the exterior of the Museum. In summary, the video shows a slim build person, wearing a blue jacket with a hood, a large dark-colored backpack, blue pants, and light-colored shoes, consistent with the clothing worn by RODRIGUEZ, walking across F Street, Northwest, in the direction of the Museum, and where the decedents were standing, preparing to enter the crosswalk. Once RODRIGUEZ walked past the decedents and two witnesses, he turned to face their backs and brandished a firearm from the area of his waistband. RODRIGUEZ is captured on the video extending both his arms in the direction of the decedents and firing several times, as indicated by the muzzle flashes. Once the decedents fell to the ground, RODRIGUEZ is captured on the video advancing closer to the decedents, leaning over with them with his arm extended, and firing several more times. As Decedent-1 attempted to crawl away from RODRIGUEZ, he followed behind her and fired again. After a brief moment, RODRIGUEZ appeared to reload his firearm. At the same time, Decedent-1 sat up. Once he reloaded, RODRIGUEZ fired several times at Decedent-1. RODRIGUEZ is then captured jogging back in the direction of 3rd Street, NW, and southbound in the direction of where the entrance to the Museum is located.
Rodriguez was inspired by the self-immolation of Aaron Bushnell:
18. During an interview with MPD detectives, after having been advised of his Miranda rights and after waiving them, RODRIGUEZ expressed admiration for the actions of an individual who self-immolated in front of the Israeli Embassy in Washington, D.C., on February 25, 2024, as a form of protest intended to draw attention to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. RODRIGUEZ described this person’s actions as courageous and labeled him a “martyr.” Rodriguez also stated that he had purchased a ticket to the event at the Museum approximately three hours prior to its commencement.
Here are his charges:https://t.co/nAqrgTYtA4
— Marina Medvin 🇺🇸 (@MarinaMedvin) May 22, 2025
Apparent manifesto of alleged DC shooter found, FBI raids Chicago home
The FBI raided the Chicago apartment of Elias Rodriguez on Thursday, searching for clues in their investigation of the 30-year-old, who is accused of shooting and killing two Israeli embassy employees in Washington on Wednesday night, as they left an American Jewish Committee young professionals event at the Capital Jewish Museum.Suspected Israeli Embassy Shooter Worked for Woke Education Group Backed by Ford, MacArthur Foundations
“FBI Chicago is conducting court-authorized law-enforcement activity in the Chicago area in relation to yesterday’s tragic shooting in Washington, D.C.,” the bureau stated.
“Last night’s act of terror has the full attention of the FBI. Targeted antisemitic violence is an attack on our core values and will be met with the full weight of federal law enforcement,” Kash Patel, the FBI director, stated. “The individual responsible will be held accountable, and the bureau will continue pursuing every lead until justice is served.”
The Anti-Defamation League said on Thursday that it had connected Rodriguez “with a high degree of certainty” to a manifesto that was circulating on social media that is titled “Escalate for Gaza, Bring the War Home.”
“The text of the manifesto stated that non-violent protests against Israel’s actions in Gaza have been insufficient, and states that the ‘perpetrators and abettors’ of genocide have ‘forfeited their humanity,’” the ADL stated. “It also praises Aaron Bushnell, the 25-year-old active-duty U.S. Airman who died after setting himself on fire outside the Israeli embassy in Washington, D.C., on Feb. 25, 2024.”
The 30-year-old suspect in the slaying of two Israeli embassy staffers in Washington, D.C., was, until the middle of 2024, an employee of a left-wing nonprofit underwritten by some of the country’s largest philanthropic foundations that claims to be devoted to chronicling the lives of "historically significant Black Americans."
Elias Rodriguez, an anti-Israel radical and longtime left-wing activist, was arrested on Wednesday evening at Washington, D.C.’s Capital Jewish Museum shortly after shouting "Free Palestine!" and "I did it for Gaza!" Moments earlier, Israeli embassy staffers Yaron Lischinsky and Sarah Milgrim were gunned down at close range, witnesses told police.
According to his LinkedIn profile, Rodriguez worked as an oral history researcher from March 2023 to July 2024 at The HistoryMakers, a nonprofit that claims to be "committed to preserving and making widely accessible the untold personal stories of both well-known and unsung African Americans." His biography was removed from the organization’s website Thursday morning.
The HistoryMakers’s website warns that the "achievements of historically significant Black Americans are at risk of going unpreserved, as important figures die without documenting their stories for future generations."
Though touted in a 60 Minutes profile as a "nonpartisan, nonprofit organization," the group’s work suggests a left-wing political bent. Its digital archive of "first person video oral testimony," for example, includes a number of left-wing heroes but ignores America’s most famous black conservatives. Clarence Thomas, the second black Supreme Court justice, is omitted, but Anita Hill, who accused him of sexual harassment, is included. The renowned economist Thomas Sowell is omitted, but Al Sharpton is present. Its biography of Nation of Islam chief Louis Farrakhan omits any mention of his long history of anti-Semitism, noting instead that he’s "at times a controversial figure" who pushes a "message of a unified community."
The organization’s praise for noxious figures like Farrakhan hasn’t proved an impediment to its ability to raise money. The HistoryMakers is underwritten by left-wing philanthropies, including the Ford Foundation, which has provided at least $1 million to the nonprofit since 2024, $500,000 of which was awarded in March. The MacArthur Foundation has also provided the group nearly $1 million since 2003, including $500,000 last year. A partnership with PBS resulted in several hours of programming aired on the publicly funded network.
What we know so far about Elias Rodriguez, the shooter who murdered two Israel Embassy staffers last night:
— StopAntisemitism (@StopAntisemites) May 22, 2025
- he was affiliated with the Chicago branch of Party for Socialism and Liberation (PSL)
- PSL glorifies terror, praises armed resistance, & promotes intifada
- his… pic.twitter.com/tKBC2RTFaH
Here’s PSL current president - Claudia De la Cruz - posing with terrorist Leila Khaled, who she openly celebrates.
— StopAntisemitism (@StopAntisemites) May 22, 2025
De la Cruz also praised the October 7th Hamas massacre of innocent Israelis. pic.twitter.com/9EkidT3hqV
StopAntisemitism's Exec Director @LioraRez joined @FoxNews @BillHemmer @JacquiHeinrich discussing DC shooter Elias Rodriguez's ties to the radical left group Party for Socialism and Liberation (PSL) and their calls to "Exterminate Zionists". pic.twitter.com/vfiMXPB5JN
— StopAntisemitism (@StopAntisemites) May 22, 2025
🚨All you need to know about the horrific antisemitic terror attack that murdered Yaron Licshinsky and Sarah Milgrim in Washington, D.C. pic.twitter.com/mfYp5q8MTg
— StandWithUs (@StandWithUs) May 22, 2025
Two Israeli embassy staffers were murdered outside DC’s Jewish Museum—during a Jewish event—by a gunman shouting “Free Palestine.” Headlines skipped those facts. When media sanitizes antisemitic violence, hatred spreads and real people pay the price. pic.twitter.com/3GJN0cUVmL
— HonestReporting (@HonestReporting) May 22, 2025
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu:
— Prime Minister of Israel (@IsraeliPM) May 22, 2025
“Last night in Washington something horrific happened.
A brutal terrorist shot in cold blood a young beautiful couple – Yaron Lischinsky and Sara Milgrim.
»https://t.co/R87pmEBeil pic.twitter.com/mWBX3IcT2g
‘Magnify, multiply’ efforts to end this hate, Leo Terrell says, after Israeli embassy staffers killed in DC
Leo Terrell, senior counsel to the assistant U.S. attorney general for civil rights, spoke with JNS on Thursday near the Capital Jewish Museum—the site where two Israeli embassy staffers were shot and killed the prior night, as they left an American Jewish Committee event for young professionals.
“Unfortunately, this is something that you’re afraid that it’s going to happen, and it happened,” Terrell told JNS, as he stood in the rain. “It’s something that we have to address, and it just underscores the magnitude of antisemitism.”
The U.S. official thinks that the focus must be on Yaron Lischinsky and Sarah Milgrim, who “lost their lives needlessly because of hate.”
“We’re trying to put a halt to it, and I recall the question that many people keep asking, ‘Are we too aggressive?” Terrell said of Jew-hatred. “Here’s an example where we’re not aggressive. Two young people lost their lives, and we got to make sure we do everything possible to stop the hate.”
All of the haters will be brought to justice, according to Terrell.
The Trump administration will then “magnify, multiply our efforts to end this hate,” and that’s why U.S. President Donald Trump, Attorney General Pam Bondi, Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights Harmeet Dhillon and others, including Terrell, are “working together to end antisemitism,” he told JNS.
“First of all, you got to end the hate by focusing on the source of the hate,” he said. “This isn’t something overnight. This has been almost a 10-, 15-, 20-year project of hating Jews.”
Terrell thinks that the Jew-hatred is being financed “from overseas.”
This goes far beyond the murder of two individuals. It reflects a systemic crisis of antisemitism—seen in the shooter’s hatred, the failure to enforce hate crime statutes, the institutions that helped shape him, and the media narratives that normalize or excuse antisemitism. This…
— Leo Terrell (@LeoTerrellDOJ) May 22, 2025
To my Jewish brothers and sisters: I know many of you are scared. How could you not be? Two Jews were gunned down in cold blood while visiting a museum. Know this: The U.S. Department of Justice and I have your back.
— Leo Terrell (@LeoTerrellDOJ) May 22, 2025
We will do everything in our power to crush the antisemitism…
Czechia condemns the vile antisemitic attack outside the Capital Jewish Museum in Washington, D.C., which claimed the lives of two young Israeli Embassy staff. Our heartfelt condolences go to the families and loved ones of the victims.
— Czech Ministry of Foreign Affairs (@CzechMFA) May 22, 2025
UAE Condemns Killing of Israeli Embassy Employees in Washingtonhttps://t.co/gpcBVq7qY9 pic.twitter.com/9NdRTISBP0
— MoFA وزارة الخارجية (@mofauae) May 22, 2025
‘There’s Tremendous Antisemitism’: Auburn’s Bruce Pearl Mourns Loss of Murdered Israeli Embassy Staffers
Auburn Tigers men’s basketball coach Bruce Pearl mourned the murders of the two Israeli embassy staffers who were killed Wednesday night after a Capital Jewish Museum event.
Pearl lamented the rise of antisemitism in the United States and the propaganda that led to the deaths of the two embassy employees.
“There’s a tremendous rise in antisemitism. We’re going to overcome it,” Pearl said, according to Fox News. “This was just a young couple, two diplomats just getting ready to start their life. The young man had a ring and was just getting ready to ask this beautiful girl to marry him and start a family. And that’s all gone right now because of, quite frankly, just the lies. Just the lies and incredibly awful propaganda.”
He went on to blast the “free Palestine” nonsense as just an extension of antisemitism and not any help for Palestinians.
“When they say, ‘free Palestine’ – what they mean is free Palestine of the Jews. Free Palestine of your friend coach, Bruce Pearl. … That’s what this is all about,” he explained. “If you were to sit there and call for an intifada or if you were going to be calling for the death to the Jews, just replace the Jews with the word ‘Christians’ or ‘Blacks’ or ‘women’ or anybody, where in the world do you get to get out there on a street … I believe in free speech so you know what, you get to do that here in this country. But we got to take them seriously now. We got to take them at their word. Just terrible to see that tragedy in D.C. last night.”
He also said that he does not think the murders on Wednesday will help the anti-Israel supporters.
Sarah Milgrim, 26, was a passionate peace activist.
— Hen Mazzig (@HenMazzig) May 22, 2025
She held a Master’s in International Studies from American University, and a second Master’s in Natural Resources and Sustainable Development from the United Nations University for Peace.
At the Israeli Embassy in Washington… pic.twitter.com/A5aSIsb58q
“I’m an ardent believer in the vision that was outlined in the Abraham Accords and believe that expanding the circle of peace with our Arab neighbors and pursuing regional cooperation is in the best interest of the State of Israel and the Middle East as a whole.
— Hen Mazzig (@HenMazzig) May 22, 2025
To this end, I… pic.twitter.com/3CM8LpTOIG
Yaron's final repost on X warned that the "14,000 children" hoax is blood libel that will get innocent people killed.
— 𝗡𝗶𝗼𝗵 𝗕𝗲𝗿𝗴 ♛ ✡︎ (@NiohBerg) May 22, 2025
He was then killed. pic.twitter.com/2yzXmxUGtJ
Commentary PodCast: The Terrorists Are Here
Noah Rothman joins the podcast this morning to talk about the horrors in DC last night and how they connect to the increasing embrace of violence on the left after 2015—which accelerated after the George Floyd killing and is now manifesting itself not only in the assassination of a health-care executive by new radical folk hero Luigi Mangione but now in the deliberate targeting of a Jewish event at a Jewish site by a berserk far leftist.
Yaron & Sarah fought, & were murdered, on the 8th front of a raging war - to demonize, delegitimize, & apply double standards to 🇮🇱’the Jew’ among nations - in int’l institutions, academia, online…mainstreaming anti-Zionism, a ‘modern’ strain of an ever-mutating lethal hate.… pic.twitter.com/njwO0uIgW3
— מיכל קוטלר-וונש | Michal Cotler-Wunsh (@CotlerWunsh) May 22, 2025
Anti-Israel propaganda leads to murder of Israeli couple in Washington DC
UN Watch Executive Director Hillel Neuer says demonisation of Israel is “fanning the flames of hate” after two Israelis were murdered in Washington, DC.
“Today we had a stark reminder of where this kind of demonisation and fanning the flames of hate leads to in Washington, DC,” Mr Neuer told Sky News host Chris Kenny.
“Two innocent people, Israeli staffers, a couple, that were about to get married … were attending a Jewish diplomacy event … a murderer came and went up to them in close range and shot them.”
Washington murderer was a ‘product’ of the Free Palestine movement
Executive Council of Australian Jewry Co-CEO Alex Ryvchin says the person who shot and killed two people outside a Jewish Museum in Washington DC is a “product” of the Free Palestine movement. “Everything that’s transpired in the last 18 months has been deeply shocking, yet at the same time utterly predictable,” Mr Ryvchin told Sky News host Caleb Bond.
“The person who did this was a product of a movement.”
Jonathan Tobin on NewsNation: The Rise of Antisemitic Rhetoric and the Israeli Embassy Shooting
Fleur Hassan-Nahoum on FOX 13 Seattle: Addressing Israeli Embassy Shooting and Rising Antisemitism
Ruthie Blum on NewsNation: Analyzing the Tragic Israeli Embassy Shooting in D.C.
MEMRI: Prior To Washington D.C. Murder Of Israeli Embassy Staffers At Jewish Event, Hamas Had Called For Attacks On Israeli, American Targets Worldwide
Just hours after Elias Rodriguez, from Chicago, shot and killed a young couple, Israeli Embassy staffers Yaron Lischinsky and Sarah Milgrim, outside a Jewish event at the Capital Jewish Museum in Washington, D.C. on the night of May 21, 2025, a Hamas-affiliated X account hastened, on May 22, 2025, to label the murder an "heroic act" and to praise the shooter.MEMRI: Palestinian Factions, Iran-Backed Iraqi Militias, Jihadi Clerics Celebrate Deadly Shooting At Jewish Event In Washington DC By Pro-Palestinian Activist Who Yelled 'Free Palestine!'
This attack did not occur in a vacuum; just a week ago, on May 15, 2025, Sami Abu Zuhri, head of Hamas's political department abroad, had explicitly called for attacks on Israeli interests worldwide. It was not the first time; previously, he had on several occasions incited attacks against Israeli and American targets around the globe, calling on anyone with a weapon to act and "spare no IED [improvised explosive device], bullet, knife, or stone." Other Hamas officials, as well as Hamas supporters and Hamas-affiliated media outlets, likewise incited "jihad operations" against Israeli, American, and Western targets, and some even threatened to carry out such attacks.
This report reviews Hamas's praise of the May 21 murder, as well as recent calls by Abu Zuhri and other Hamas officials for attacks against Israeli and American targets:
Hamas Praises Murderer Of Two Members Of Israeli Embassy Staff In Washington
A few hours after the murder of the two Israeli Embassy staffers in Washington, the Telegram account of the Hamas-affiliated Shehab News Agency posted a photo of suspect Elias Rodriguez, writing: "[Soar] high like an eagle."[1]
Expressing similar sentiments, the X account of the Gaza Now website – Gaza Now was sanctioned by the U.S. Treasury Department as a "key financial facilitator involved in fundraising for Hamas" in March 2024[2] – also praised Rodriguez. One post referred to him as "a resistance fighter," and stated: "In a moment of courage, he decided to raise his voice to the world and to bravely confront the murderers. He fired, killed one of the Israeli clerks [sic], stood and issued his challenge while restrained, and in so doing raised the flag of justice against the oppressor..."[3]
Another post on the Gaza Now X account compared Rodriguez to slain Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar, with photos of them side by side and stating: "Even though he isn't a Muslim, he has an active conscience, like the conscience of Yahya Sinwar. He carried out his brave act in the heart of the Israeli Embassy in Washington, to avenge the children of Gaza. He killed two Zionist terrorists and then sat down resolutely and crossed his legs. He proved that conscience has no religion, but [takes] a stand."[4]
On May 21, 2025, a shooting attack took place outside the Capital Jewish Museum in Washington, D.C., where the American Jewish Committee was holding an event for young professionals. The attack resulted in the deaths of two Israeli Embassy employees. [1] Various jihadi outlets and groups published posts celebrating the incident and lauding its perpetrator.MEMRI: Party For Socialism And Liberation, Linked To Perpetrator Of Terror Attack On DC Jewish Event For Young Professionals That Killed Two Israeli Embassy Employees, Was Among The Endorsers Of The May 2024 3-Day 'People's Conference For Palestine' In Detroit Where Speakers Openly Praised 'Heroic' October 7 And Called For Escalating Armed Resistance; Conference Was Largely Overlooked By Dearborn And Detroit Media, Despite The Participation Of U.S. Rep. Rashida Tlaib, Dearborn Mayor Hammoud, High-Profile Jihadi Members Of Designated Terror Groups
Palestinian Mujahideen Movement Claims Attack Is Response To Israeli Crimes In Gaza; Pro-Hamas 'Gaza Now' Telegram Channel Glorifies Attacker
On May 22, the Palestinian Mujahideen Movement issued a statement in response to the attack, claiming that it reflected "growing global anger" over Israel's "barbaric crimes" in Gaza and declaring Israel's "ongoing impunity" a "threat to international stability and peace." The group urged the international community and global institutions to "rein in" Israel and bring an end to its war against "innocent" civilians.[2]
On the same day, the pro-Hamas Gaza Now media outlet wrote a post on its Telegram channel, glorifying the suspected attacker, Elias Rodriguez, claiming that although he is not a Muslim, he couldn't ignore what's happening in Gaza "while the world remains silent." The post concluded that "in a moment of courage, he decided to make his voice heard and boldly confront the killers. He opened fire, killing an Israeli employee, and stood defiantly, handcuffed, to raise the banner of justice in the face of injustice" as he shouted "free Palestine."[3]
Telegram Channel Affiliated With Iran-Backed Militias In Iraq Describes Attack As 'Heroic'
On May 21, "unit 10000," a Telegram channel affiliated with Iran-backed militias in Iraq, shared a video showing the arrest of the suspect, describing the shooting as a "heroic attack" against "the Zionist entity."[4]
Anti-Hay'at Tahrir Al-Sham (HTS) Telegram Channel Lauds Perpetrator For Supporting Palestine; Syrian Cleric Urges Muslims To Follow His Example
On May 22, the "Al-Suri Al-Muhajir" Telegram channel, which opposes Syrian jihadi group Hay’at Tahrir Al-Sham (HTS), published a post celebrating the attack and lauding its perpetrator, who reportedly carried it out in support of Gaza and Palestine. The post included a photo of the suspect. In a subsequent post, the channel stated: "When a communist takes revenge for the people of Gaza, you wish all Arab rulers would be crucified and then their skins flayed!"[5]
On May 22, Syrian jihadi cleric Abu Yahya Al-Shami published a post on Telegram praising the the shooter, and urged Muslims to follow his example. The post also criticized Muslim "indolence" in waging jihad, blaming Islamic preachers for diminishing interest in jihad and asserting that "infidels" are now carrying out such attacks while Muslims remain "inactive."[6]
On May 21, 2025, a shooting attack took place outside the Capital Jewish Museum in Washington, D.C., where the American Jewish Committee was holding an event for young professionals. Two employees of the Israeli Embassy were shot dead in the attack. The accused suspect, Elias Rodriguez, who yelled "Free Palestine!" as he was apprehended, has been linked to the anti-U.S. extremist Party for Socialism and Liberation.
Against this backdrop, MEMRI is re-releasing its October 29, 2024 Inquiry & Analysis report on the "People's Conference for Palestine," held in Detroit, Michigan on May 24-26, 2024, an event closely tied to U.S.-designated Palestinian terrorist Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP). The conference was endorsed by the Party for Socialism and Liberation, among many other pro-jihadi groups, and featured an in-person speech by U.S. Representative Rashida Tlaib (D-Mich), along with a pre-recorded video message by Dearborn, Michigan Mayor Abdullah Hammoud. The Party for Socialism and Liberation was listed as an endorser on the conference website.[1] For the full list of endorsers, see Appendix below.
The Party for Socialism and Liberation was listed as an endorser on the conference website.
Notably, on May 22, the Party for Socialism and Liberation published a post on X denying any connection to the DC shooting.[2] It wrote: "We reject any attempt to associate the PSL with the DC shooting. Elias Rodriguez is not a member of the PSL. He had a brief association with one branch of the PSL that ended in 2017. We know of no contact with him in over 7 years. We have nothing to do with this shooting and do not support it."
The following is the MEMRI Inquiry and Analysis report on the conference, originally published on October 29, 2024.
Another Jihadi Coverup In Michigan: The 3-Day 'People's Conference For Palestine' In Detroit – Sponsored By Pro-Jihadi U.S. Muslim Groups, Livestreamed, And Widely Shared Online – Where Speakers Openly Praised 'Heroic' October 7 And Called For Escalating Armed Resistance – Is Largely Overlooked By Dearborn And Detroit Media, Despite The Participation Of U.S. Rep. Rashida Tlaib, Dearborn Mayor Hammoud, High-Profile Jihadi Members Of Designated Terror Groups
The "People's Conference for Palestine," held in Detroit, Michigan on May 24-26, 2024, was closely affiliated with the U.S.-designated Palestinian terrorist Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP). It featured an in-person speech by U.S. Representative Rashida Tlaib (D-Mich), along with a pre-recorded video message by Dearborn, Michigan Mayor Abdullah Hammoud.
The conference's keynote speaker was Sana' Daqqa, widow of terrorist Walid Daqqa who died of a terminal illness while serving a life sentence in an Israeli prison.[3] Daqqa was a member of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) cell of Arab Israelis that in 1984 kidnapped IDF soldier Moshe Tamam, gouged out his eyes, and castrated him before shooting him dead. Also speaking at the conference was current PFLP member Wisam Rafidee.[4]
Many of the conference speakers openly lauded the Palestinian armed resistance and the "heroic" scenes of October 7, calling for its global escalation to "involve the whole of society on all levels." Taher Herzallah of American Muslims For Palestine (AMP) was cheered loudly when he stated that "some people here today will not be here next year, because liberation struggle requires sacrifices." Another speaker read a poem honoring the slain PFLP spokesman.
The Party for Socialism and Liberation: what they really stand for: pic.twitter.com/yBoUWur8uX
— StandWithUs (@StandWithUs) May 22, 2025
Party for Socialism and Liberation Leaders Celebrate in NYC on October 8, 2023: The United States of America Is the Terrorist! We Feel the Palestinian Blood! pic.twitter.com/kowjePzH8y
— MEMRI (@MEMRIReports) May 22, 2025
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— texanconstitutionalist (@texanconstitut1) May 22, 2025
MEMRI: Leaders Of Designated Terror Organization Samidoun Call Murder Of Young Couple By Pro-Palestinian Activist At Jewish Event In Washington, D.C. 'Only Logical' – Adding 'Yes – To Globalize The Intifada'
Following the murder of a young Jewish couple, both employees of the Israeli Embassy, outside the Capital Jewish Museum last night, the founder and international coordinator of the Samidoun Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network expressed support for the murder and blaming "Israel's crimes in Gaza" for it.
Samidoun is affiliated with the designated terrorist Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) and in October 2024 was designated terrorist by the U.S., Canada, and other countries. It raises funds for the PFLP.
Khaled Barakat, founder of both Samidoun and Masar Badil, the Palestinian Alternative Revolutionary Path Movement, and a member of the latter's executive committee, has been identified by the U.S. government as a senior member of the PFLP. He is also designated terrorist by the U.S. and Canada. A Canadian citizen, Barakat has been residing in Beirut for several months after being designated in Canada in October 2024.
Charlotte Kates, Barakat's wife, is Samidoun's international coordinator. Kates was arrested in May 2024 following her speech at a rally in Vancouver, British Columbia in which she expressed support for Hamas, the PFLP, Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ) and Lebanese Hizbullah and demanded that they be removed from Canada's terror list. In August 2024, Kates traveled to Iran to accept Iran's "Eighth Annual Islamic Human Rights And Human Dignity Award," presented in Tehran on August 4 by the secretary general of the High Council for Human Rights of the Islamic Republic of Iran. The following day in Tehran, she gave a detailed interview to Iran's Ofogh TV, discussing her arrest. Kates traveled to Lebanon to attend the funeral of Hizbullah leader Hassan Nasrallah in February 2025 and so far appears to still be there.
Below are statements by Barakat and Kates about last night's murder:
Samidoun Founder Khaled Barakat: "Israel's Crimes In Gaza Are Responsible For The Killing Of Its Representatives In Washington"; "We Affirm That The Occupation Is The Original Crime, And That Those Who Seek To Criminalize The Reactions While Remaining Silent On The Massacre Are Complicit In The Ongoing Crime"
In a report published on the website of Masar Badil, aka the Palestinian Alternative Revolutionary Path Movement, following the murder, Barakat was quoted as saying: "[T]he shooting incident that occurred in the U.S. capital, Washington, targeting employees of the 'Israeli' embassy, is a natural consequence of the Zionist entity's crimes in the Gaza Strip."
He added: "This explosion of anger in the heart of the U.S. capital is neither isolated nor random, but one of the manifestations of pain and deep rage stemming from the international community's disregard for the suffering of Palestinians, and its complicity in shielding the killers and granting them impunity. We affirm that the occupation is the original crime, and that those who seek to criminalize the reactions while remaining silent on the massacre are complicit in the ongoing crime."
Kates’ husband Khaled Barakat, a member of the PFLP, another US-designated terrorist group) blames Israel for the murder of two young Jews in DC, saying the shooting was a “natural consequence” of Israel’s war against Hamas. pic.twitter.com/jFgbrLBBge
— Israel War Room (@IsraelWarRoom) May 22, 2025
MEMRI: Qatari Media Figures Praise Washington D.C. Terror Attack On Jewish Event For Young Professionals That Killed Two Israeli Embassy Employees
The May 21, 2025, shooting attack that killed two Israeli Embassy employees outside the Capital Jewish Museum in Washington, D.C., was met with a wave of responses on social media, including some by Qatari media figures.
This report reviews some of these responses.
Journalist For Qatari Government Daily: Imagine, Where Would The Zionists Be If There Were A Few More Like Rodriguez In Arab Countries That Maintain Ties With Israel?
Qatari journalist Abdallah Alamadi, a columnist for the Qatar government daily Al-Sharq, called for more attacks targeting Israeli Embassies in Arab countries that maintain diplomatic relations with Israel. On his X account, he shared a photo of the Washington D.C. attacker, Elias Rodriguez, alongside a report on the attack, writing: "Imagine, where would the Zionists be if there emerged an Egyptian Rodriguez, a Jordanian, an Emirati too, a fourth from Bahrain, and a fifth from Morocco?"[1]
Columnist For Government Daily Al-Sharq Responds To Terror Attack: The World Hates You
Egyptian journalist, film producer, and former Al Jazeera presenter Assaad Taha, who has a column in Qatari government daily Al-Sharq, wrote on his X account hours after the attack: "The world hates you."[2]
Al Jazeera Fact Checking Agency Employee: The Attacker Is A Man Who Raised His Voice For Gaza
Adnan Alhussein, a journalist and supervisor at the editing team of Al Jazeera's fact-checking Sanad Agency, wrote on his X account: "The leftist writer [who works] for 'The HistoryMakers' organization, Elias Rodriguez, shot dead two employees of the Israeli Embassy in Washington. He waited for the police and told them it was for Gaza, [and yelled:] 'Free Palestine'. This is the curse of Palestinian blood and the blood of Gaza on the world."[3]
On his Facebook account, Alhussein shared a photo of the shooter, writing: "From here, a distant land, a man emerged who raised his voice for Gaza. Two employees of the Israeli Embassy in Washington were shot to death. Oh, Mighty Allah, ease things for our people in Palestine and Gaza."[4]
On @FoxNews I laid it out: This is a foreign influence op—funded by Iran & Qatar, run through AMP/SJP/MB groups on 220 campuses, in schools & on our streets—to radicalize Americans.
— Mark Dubowitz (@mdubowitz) May 22, 2025
When a keffiyeh-clad extremist guns down two young Jews in D.C., this is the predictable result. pic.twitter.com/SBZfeVPt4P
Ilhan Omar Avoided Reporters When Asked About Jewish Museum Murders: Report
Anti-Semitic congresswoman Ilhan Omar (D., Minn.) on Thursday walked away from reporters who asked about the horrific slayings of two Israeli embassy staffers outside a Jewish history museum in Washington, D.C., only issuing a written statement later online.‘More Elias’: These people are celebrating the Capital Jewish Museum shooting
"I'm going to go for now," Omar said Thursday morning as reporters pressed her for comment on the murders, according to Fox News.
The killer on Wednesday evening gunned down Yaron Lischinsky and Sarah Milgrim as the couple left an event at the Capital Jewish Museum. Authorities have arrested anti-Israel activist Elias Rodriguez, who allegedly shouted "free, free Palestine" after murdering Lischinsky and Milgrim.
Most politicians issued statements expressing horror at the murders and condemning anti-Semitic hate soon after the news broke, with President Donald Trump writing on Truth Social that "these horrible D.C. killings, based obviously on antisemitism, must end, NOW!"
"Hatred and Radicalism have no place in the USA. Condolences to the families of the victims," Trump went on.
Omar, a member of the far-left "Squad," took until noon on Thursday to issue a statement on X, in which she said that she is "appalled" by the incident and that "violence should have no place in our country."
At 12:52 a.m., just minutes after the name of one of the victims of the Capital Jewish Museum attack began to trickle out online, a social media user by the name of Mejd S tweeted a short message: “F— Yaron Lischinsky.”
Ten minutes earlier, Mejd had trawled Lischinsky’s profile on X, where the Israeli embassy staffer had posted a stream of Israeli diplomatic talking points — that Hamas is the main obstacle to aid distribution in Gaza, that the group embeds among civilians, and that international law courts trying Israel are illegitimate.
For Mejd, that was enough to conclude that Lischinsky “loved baby murder.” He added, “Lol I dont feel sorry for this freak rest in piss.”
The post has been shared dozens of times. As of 11:30 a.m. on Thursday, it has 11,000 views.
Mejd’s post may have been one of the first to justify the murder of two Israeli embassy employees at a Jewish event in Washington, DC, Wednesday night, but it was hardly the most popular. Some who have used the “Free Palestine” slogan the shooter repeated, or who once had ties to him, are disavowing him under criticism from pro-Israel activists. But a range of hardline pro-Palestinian social media accounts are praising the attack or paying homage to the man who allegedly committed it, Elias Rodriguez.
“The Israeli embassy workers were not murdered for being Jewish, this is a ridiculous lie to fear monger,” read one tweet that has been reposted hundreds of times. “They were targeted because they are cogs in a genocidal machine. They served a government openly planning to expel 2 million people from their homes.”
Another said: “Anyone who supports or is a party to the injustice, suffering, & genocide that Palestinians have been subjected to deserves zero empathy from me. If they’re put down, I will celebrate it just as I would’ve celebrated in 1945 when Hitler’s brain matter hit the wall of his bunker.”
The name of that X profile is “More Elias, More Rodney, More Luigi.” The latter name is a reference to Luigi Mangione, the man accused of killing a UnitedHealthcare executive in New York City. The “Free Luigi” movement that swelled in the wake of that murder, celebrating it as an act of resistance against an unjust system, is now seeing hints of being replicated for Rodriguez.
“We're all gonna have the same energy for Elias Rodriguez that we did for Luigi,” posted one TikTok user. “No one is untouchable. FREE PALESTINE.”
How far will this hatred go?
— Hen Mazzig (@HenMazzig) May 22, 2025
It could have stopped when our Jewish restaurants were boycotted.
It could have stopped when our synagogues were set on fire.
When the windows of our Jewish schools were shattered.
When mezuzahs were ripped from our neighbors’ doorposts.
When… pic.twitter.com/I3oJXrnM30
🚨 We were investigating, Elias Rodrigues, the perpetrator of the horrific murders of the young Israeli couple last night and we came across his X account where he justifies their murder.
— GnasherJew®גנאשר (@GnasherJew) May 22, 2025
His parting words “I’m glad that today at least there are many Americans for which the… pic.twitter.com/zEBfFAaHi2
Some of the social media posts by far-left shooter suspect Elias Rodriguez ("kyotoleather"):
— Andy Ngo (@MrAndyNgo) May 22, 2025
He went to @bluesky, complaining about X being a "racist, misogynistic cesspool." His profile banner on it is of Palestinian gunmen carrying out a 2024 terror attack on civilians in Tel… pic.twitter.com/Qv43T7BIqb
BREAKING: A Lebanese foreign minister praises the terrorist who murdered a young couple in Washington DC.
— Eyal Yakoby (@EYakoby) May 22, 2025
Islamists are enemies of the West. pic.twitter.com/hcj5aH5nCY
These people try to tell you they care about humanity. They’re all just sociopaths. https://t.co/YkSkRfypeb
— Noam Blum (@neontaster) May 22, 2025
After antisemitic murder by 'Free-Palestine' activist, Guardian attacks Israel
So, the Guardian, whose coverage since Oct. 2023 has been effectively pro-Hamas, and continually publishes incendiary and libelous content about Israel, including anti-Jewish tropes, couldn’t even report on the antisemitism-inspired killing of two by a Palestine supporter in the US without suggesting that Israel’s putative villainy represented vital ‘context’ by which to understand the murders.
Though the Guardian Live Blog entry is appalling, and includes the lie that the IDF “attacks schools, hospitals and shelters” daily, it’s not all surprising given their record on Jews and Israel. The outlet has been gaslighting Jews about antisemitism for years, and insisting, despite overwhelming evidence, that the British Jewish routinely conflates ‘real’ antisemitism with mere ‘criticism of Israel’. Further, especially since Oct. 7, they’ve ignored and whitewashed the anti-Jewish racism and outright terror support that’s pervasive within the pro-Palestinian movement.
Now, after an innocent man and women were shot dead at point blank range by a follower of the cult of pro-Palestinianism, it’s clear their main concern is not the victims of the terror attack, but, rather, protecting at all costs their anti-Zionist ideological project.
This is grotesque. @guardian's @hlivingstone live blog on the murder of two Israelis outside a Jewish museum in DC, by a man who's evidently a pro-Palestinian activist, includes this *important* context.
— CAMERA UK (@CAMERAorgUK) May 22, 2025
When it comes to Jews and Israel, there are clearly no red lines at the… pic.twitter.com/azpHIZifkv
'Is this bad for Palestinians?' pic.twitter.com/xsNpz3tRPg
— Joo🎗️ (@JoosyJew) May 22, 2025
After the shooting, the CNN anchor’s main concern is the optics against anti-Israel protesters, not the safety of Jews. Her guest pushes back. It’s an incredible moment of television. pic.twitter.com/8iBFbQgNAA
— Marina Medvin 🇺🇸 (@MarinaMedvin) May 22, 2025
Absolutely execrable. Can't defund NPR soon enough. pic.twitter.com/PY9gRTBgdn
— Omri Ceren (@omriceren) May 22, 2025
The Gray Lady really struggling here pic.twitter.com/kE5omQCm2S
— Strxwmxn (@strxwmxn) May 22, 2025
No matter how much you hate the media, you don't hate them enough
— Ari Hoffman 🎗 (@thehoffather) May 22, 2025
Is the @NBCNews really trying to convince us that the radicals socialist who killed 2 Jews was a right winger who hated gay people?
He posted his manifesto and shouted Free Palestine. pic.twitter.com/nHntb81VD5
This was on of the last things Yaron reposted before being murdered in cold blood.
— Kosher🎗 (@koshercockney) May 22, 2025
The fact Hamas thanked your government for your statements pic.twitter.com/wQJHowxl2d
This is you visiting a Palestinian national who openly said he “loves killing Jews” and “wants to kill more.” https://t.co/3tLnm3TUVi pic.twitter.com/4A2awO9tJG
— Eyal Yakoby (@EYakoby) May 22, 2025
> spread lies that Jews are about to kill 14,000 babies
— Bad antizionist takes (@antiantizionist) May 22, 2025
>act surprised when people kill Jews
Sure. Let's start by looking at who funds the activist groups the shooter belonged to in Chicago. https://t.co/LJmPZXLTaS
— Stephen L. Miller (@redsteeze) May 22, 2025
Disgusting. The attempt to compare the brutal murder of two Israeli Jews outside a Jewish institution—with a knife attack on a Muslim boy by a mentally unstable landlord—is not just a false equivalence, it’s whataboutism meant to deflect from antisemitism.
— John Spencer (@SpencerGuard) May 22, 2025
One was incited by a… https://t.co/pTjo0K4g3q
Medhi blocked comments on this post because he knows that Jews, Israelis and Zionists had absolutely nothing to do with those heinous attacks. He is engaging in precisely what he accuses others of doing. https://t.co/zt4YXydxhj
— Limited Edition (@L1m1t3dEd1t10n) May 22, 2025
Nobody called for the murder of a six year old.
— Max 📟 (@MaxNordau) May 22, 2025
Nobody celebrated the murder of a six year old.
Nobody chanted "Globalize the murder of six year olds." pic.twitter.com/WxJgd1Eu4a
They were attending a Jewish event that had nothing to do with Israel, and the murderer had no way to know that they worked at the Israeli embassy. The fact that they were embassy staffers is entirely incidental, it was pure antisemitism which pervades what you wrongly call "the… https://t.co/bgALGYRukm
— David Bernstein (@ProfDBernstein) May 22, 2025
The head of the ADL directly blames @hasanthehun for the DC shooting. The full force of the US government is about to come down on him. When these things happen politicians look for a scapegoat to show that they’re doing something. Hasan will be the guy
— Observer (@CharlieSheenGO) May 22, 2025
pic.twitter.com/ra8pvNpAYr
What is most sickening about them using the tragic murder of two Israelis is that two innocent people were murdered in cold blood* pic.twitter.com/nQ3VLivgra
— Eyal Yakoby (@EYakoby) May 22, 2025
The Bronx Anti-War coalition, which has been targeting me since October 7th, has described the murderous targeting of Jews as “the highest expression of anti-Zionism.”
— Ritchie Torres (@RitchieTorres) May 22, 2025
Violence is not a bug but a feature of virulent Anti-Zionism. pic.twitter.com/TzHOSgNH3n
Even by this platform’s notoriously toxic standards, the incitement to murder being posted today is off the charts pic.twitter.com/rtEaeuJfvg
— Eitan Fischberger (@EFischberger) May 22, 2025
Keep leaving that digital footprint. https://t.co/uSVl3btBNn pic.twitter.com/pAnN1lxf8M
— 𝗡𝗶𝗼𝗵 𝗕𝗲𝗿𝗴 ♛ ✡︎ (@NiohBerg) May 22, 2025
On October 8, 2023—just one day after Hamas terrorists brutally massacred over 1,200 innocent people in southern Israel and kidnapped more than 250 others—the Party for Socialism and Liberation made the following post. Now, someone who was a reported member stands accused of… pic.twitter.com/qZR8FvjAut
— StandWithUs (@StandWithUs) May 22, 2025
This is a professor at the University of North Carolina.
— Eyal Yakoby (@EYakoby) May 22, 2025
I don't think I need to provide any other context. America's youth are being indoctrinated to carry out mass acts of violence. American universities are complicit. https://t.co/FziqGVZTLa
I want to be sick.
— Kosher🎗 (@koshercockney) May 22, 2025
This is how the “Free Palestine” movement are celebrating the cold-blooded murder of Sarah Milgrim and Yaron Lichinsky at the Jewish Museum.
Hundreds of comments.
This is who they are. pic.twitter.com/eqQtFnFycu
🚨 Jews Get Executed - And These Psycho Narcissists Turn It Into a Performance
— Shirion Collective (@ShirionOrg) May 22, 2025
⚠️ Before the Blood Even Dried, They Were Calling the Victims “Creatures” and Screaming “False Flag” to Feed Their Own Loser Ego
🛑 QUESTION: Can you imagine bigger waste of space shit bags? I… pic.twitter.com/WxY116UTHn
This guy has a mental health disorder.
— Shirion Collective (@ShirionOrg) May 22, 2025
Absolute trash. pic.twitter.com/aLAKTxNYdP
But of course she first had to share a conspiracy video claiming that the killings were a "false flag" attack pic.twitter.com/A9nOkPgmv6
— The Electronic Uprising (@uprising_1) May 22, 2025
"Leeds Students Against Apartheid Coalition" have decided to post their support for the murder of 2 Israeli diplomats... and just for clarity they shared the manifesto of the killer... @UniversityLeeds pic.twitter.com/dTJ21H4CKl
— The Electronic Uprising (@uprising_1) May 22, 2025
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