Once Again, A Killer Of Jews Is Portrayed As A Victim (Daled Amos) ~ Elder Of Ziyon

Sunday, May 25, 2025

Once Again, A Killer Of Jews Is Portrayed As A Victim (Daled Amos)

On Wednesday night, two young members of the Israeli embassy were shot and killed by a radical pro-Palestinian sympathizer. Yaron Lischinsky and Sarah Lynn Milgrim were attending an American Jewish Committee Young Diplomats reception at the Capital Jewish Museum in Washington, DC. Lischinsky was a German-born evangelical Christian about to be engaged to Milgrim.

Needless to say, these were not the optics the anti-Israel groups were looking for.
We should have known the kind of delusional response to expect on social media.

While AOC did make a reference to antisemitism in the second paragraph of her post, the Jewish identity of Milgrim is erased, as is the fact that the murderer was deliberately targeting those he thought were Jews, in revenge for a war taking place halfway around the world.

One post on X spelled out the left's need to redefine what actually happened. (h/t EOZ)

You see, the murder of two young people who had nothing to do with the war between Israel and Gaza may be tragic, but don't forget the context. In other words, this tragedy is nuanced.

In fact, the real victim is the alleged killer, Mr. Elias:

Elias's actions, while inexcusable, were reportedly driven by his anguish over the daily horrors and crimes against humanity inflicted upon Palestinians, not by hatred towards Jews as a people.

How he knew that the killer was driven by anguish instead of anger and hate is anyone's guess. Of course, to push the "anguish" narrative, the writer here has to paint Israel in the darkest colors--so the same propaganda that the killer fed on is conveniently regurgitated for the benefit of the audience. The word "genocide" is thrown in, independent of its actual, legal definition, along with the usual inflammatory descriptions.

The fact that the killer's actions are blamed on Israel is a nice touch.

And of course, he finishes off with the typical "both sides" flourish.

Oddly enough, what eludes the writer is the hypocrisy that he has fallen into. He carefully avoids mentioning the 1,200 Israelis murdered and the hundreds kidnapped by the Hamas terrorists. But it is exactly that massacre of Jews that led to the war he blames on Israel.

To phrase it in the writer's words: Israel's actions actually are being driven by their anguish over the crimes against humanity inflicted by Palestinians--and Hamas's promise to carry out more such massacres--not by hatred towards Gazans as a people.

Israel has the right to protect its people.

Going a step further, the psychological defense of the killer, based on his alleged anguish that drove him to kill the young couple, is reminiscent of what we have seen in France, where murderers of Jews have avoided justice because of their mental state.

Sarah Halimi Case (2017): Sarah Halimi, a 65-year-old Jewish woman, was beaten and thrown from her apartment balcony in Paris by her neighbor, Kobili Traoré. a Muslim immigrant. He was never tried for murder because a lower court ruled he was not criminally responsible due to a cannabis-induced psychotic episode. Instead, he was committed to a psychiatric hospital with restrictive measures for 20 years.

Mireille Knoll Case (2018): Mireille Knoll, an 85-year-old Holocaust survivor, was stabbed 11 times by Yacine Mihoub and Alex Carrimbacus. The attack was fueled by antisemitic stereotypes about Jewish wealth. Mihoub was sentenced to life imprisonment with no parole. But Carrimbacus was acquitted of murder, in part because the defense emphasized his lesser role and mental state. However, he was convicted of theft with antisemitic motives.

René Hadjaj Case (2022): René Hadjaj, an 89-year-old Jewish man, was pushed from his 17th-floor apartment window by his 51-year-old neighbor. The attack was suspected to have antisemitic motives. The suspect was arrested, but no hate crime charges were initially filed. Early reports suggested consideration of the perpetrator’s mental state.

Have we moved on from using a killer's mental state as an indication of inability to judge right from wrong to their emotional state? How far would the writer have us go in judging the perpetrator as the victim?

If you support Hamas terrorists, these attacks on innocent Jews are the inevitable responses. Own it