The murderer's manifesto is rhetorically identical to that of today's socialist antisemites ~ Elder Of Ziyon

Thursday, May 22, 2025

The murderer's manifesto is rhetorically identical to that of today's socialist antisemites

Elias Rodriguez published a manifesto in his X account before embarking on his murderous rampage.

I see no daylight between his logic and that of the Marxist and other socialist organizations (like Within Our Lifetime, Samidoun, Students for Justice in Palestine) that have dominated the anti-Israel protests.

In other words, all he did was to put their words - like "globalize the intifada" and "by any means necessary" - into action.

An armed action is not necessarily a military action. It usually is not. Usually it is theater and spectacle, a quality it shares with many unarmed actions. ...

A word about the morality of armed demonstration. ...Humanity doesn't exempt one from accountability. The action would have been morally justified taken 11 years ago during Protective Edge, around the time I personally became acutely aware of our brutal conduct in Palestine. But I think to most Americans such an action would have been illegible, would seem insane. I am glad that today at least there are many Americans for which the action will be highly legible and, in some funny way, the only sane thing to do.

There is no daylight between his words and those that are blared out and mindlessly repeated by thousands of people at anti-Israel demonstrations. Most of them don't decide to pick up guns and shoot their ideological enemies, but the constant tsunami of antisemitic incitement had to, inevitably, push some over the edge.

This is not a mentally ill person. This is a sane person who consumed a diet of hate, believed the most absurd anti-Israel accusations (like doubling the death count in Gaza, "tens of thousands now at risk of imminent famine," and that there are 10,000 bodies under the rubble), and acted exactly as the antisemites who promote the propaganda prompted him to act. If all the lies about Israel are true, then acting on them is hardly insane. And in the universe that Rodriguez and thousands of others inhabit, all they can see and believe are the lies.

People who mindlessly repeat the rhyming mantras of "There is only one solution, Intifada revolution!" and "Hey hey, ho ho, Zionists have got to go!" are being taught that killing Zionists/Jews is the moral thing to do. This is how brainwashing works.

And brainwashing works.

This had to happen. And it unfortunately happen again, in no small part due to the performative nature of Rodriguez's act.

While the "progressives" claim to be against murder, they are secretly happy at the prospect of one of their own being given an international forum to spout hate in court.

This was what the leading anti-Israel organizers have been dreaming of. One of their puppets performed their script.