How bloody convenient! 2 Israeli embassy staff killed by man chanting 'free Palestine'
Posted by Ed on May 22, 2025, 6:12 am
Well, this is sure to get all those mildly dissenting msm and political voices back in line!
We can see where this is going...puppy killer, Kristi Noem, says "Please pray for the families of the victims. We will bring this depraved perpetrator to justice." While Israel's ambassador to the United Nations called the incident a "depraved act of anti-Semitic terrorism" and Trump chimes in with "horrible D.C. killings, based obviously on antisemitism". Luckily, The Israeli ambassador was not at the event at the time of the shooting.
Great timing, whatever the full story is.
quote: 2 Israeli embassy staff killed by man chanting 'free Palestine' - police
Two Israeli embassy staff were killed outside a Jewish museum in downtown Washington DC by a man who police say shouted "free, free Palestine" after the attack.
The victims, a young couple, were shot while exiting an event at the Capital Jewish Museum, DC police said, adding that the incident appears targeted.
The shooting happened at 21:05 local time in an area with numerous tourist sites, museums and government buildings, including the FBI's Washington field office.
After the suspect, who has been detained by authorities, opened fire, he walked inside the museum and was stopped by security, Metropolitan Police Department Chief Pamela Smith said.
The suspect, Elias Rodriguez, 30, of Chicago, was seen pacing outside the museum before opening fire on a group of four - killing the couple, Chief Smith said at a news conference.
sraeli ambassador to the US Yechiel Leiter shared at the conference that the couple killed were planning to get engaged.
Mr Leiter said the male victim had purchased a ring this week and had planned to propose on a trip they'd planned to Jerusalem. The victims' names have not been released.
"Two Israeli Embassy staff were senselessly killed tonight near the Jewish Museum in Washington DC," US Homeland Security chief Kristi Noem posted on X. "Please pray for the families of the victims. We will bring this depraved perpetrator to justice."
Israel's ambassador to the United Nations called the incident a "depraved act of anti-Semitic terrorism".
"Harming diplomats and the Jewish community is crossing a red line," Ambassador Danny Danon wrote on X. "We are confident that the US authorities will take strong action against those responsible for this criminal act."
The incident triggered a major police response and shut down several core streets in the city.
A spokesman for the Israeli embassy confirmed that two staff members were shot "at close range" while attending the event at the museum.
"We have full faith in law enforcement authorities on both the local and federal levels to apprehend the shooter and protect Israel's representatives and Jewish communities throughout the United States," said spokesman Tal Naim Cohen.
The Israeli ambassador was reportedly not at the museum event at the time of the shooting, US media reported.
The DC campus of Georgetown University also was temporarily locked down, according to CBS.
"When we went to leave the cops and security were downstairs and told us we can't leave," said one student, who was on lockdown in their building for over an hour.
"And they are still here telling us we can't leave."
President Donald Trump posted on Truth calling for an end to "horrible D.C. killings, based obviously on antisemitism"...
Of fucking course the fraudian has a top of the page, live blog running on this killing of two people, when the murder of thousands in Gaza has not been worth mentioning for months.
With no self-awareness at all, and no doubt quite a lot of spin they report this via AP:
The Associated Press has been talking to two people who were at the scene. It reports:
“This event was about humanitarian aid,” Kalin said. “How can we actually help both the people in Gaza and the people in Israel? How can we bring together Muslims and Jews and Christians to work together to actually help innocent people? And then here he is just murdering two people in cold blood.”
Sure it was. Sure. An "event about humanitarian aid". I bet it was. Right. I'm convinced. It wouldn't have been another Nakba Day celebration by any chance would it given it's the exact right date for the apartheid state's independence day.
All I can find about it so far is this:
"The shooting took place following an American Jewish Committee event for young Jewish professionals and diplomats"
No mention of "humanitarian aid". Lying fucks.
And now the shooter is being named as Eliaz Rodriguez from Chicago....I'm sure the MAGAts won't be making any fuss about that. The corporate media are complicit in the Gaza genocide. Never forget what they did. Never forgive them for it.
Re: How bloody convenient! 2 Israeli embassy staff killed by man chanting 'free Palestine'
I looked at pretty much all of the reports on this because I wanted to know exactly what this event was actually for/about but as you say, could only find the vague "young Jewish professionals and diplomats" stuff. Plenty about the two killed...lovely young couple, he'd just bought a ring, etc etc etc. You know, the sort of heart tugging coverage never afforded to murdered Palestinians.
Of course, that Israeli ambassador to the UN they keep quoting as some sort of voice of reason in all this is none other than the monstrous, racist, genocidal, Danny Danon, who has spent his whole political career spreading hate and lies.
Which, of course, will not be news to any Lifeboaters, but the difference in coverage between two apartheid staters shot dead and THOUSANDS killed by snipers, bombs, missiles, drones, starvation, disease is massive.
The media whores will say this was murder; a man decided to shoot people who have nothing to do with the crimes in Gaza. Well, the only difference is the weapon of choice (pistol,presumably, rather than 2000 bomb) and the location (US rather than Gaza).
As you say, this is very conveniently going to take all the media attention just as some western states are starting to stand up to the apartheid state as they starve the population of Gaza. It's hard not to be cynical about it all.
The corporate media are complicit in the Gaza genocide. Never forget what they did. Never forgive them for it.
Can already see this becoming the new opening salvo "Do you condemn the shooting of..."
...addressed to anyone with the temerity to support the Palestinians.
I can write Piers Morgan's new script now..."Don't worry, I am fair and we come on to Israel's controversial actions in Gaza, but first, do you condemn this brutal, cold blooded murder of this young, soon to be married, lovely Jewish couple who were just enjoying an innocent evening out...it's a simple question, do you condemn..."
And, of course, it will be emphasised that the shooter is a Hamas supporter and that the victims are Jews rather than Israelis.
It can be used to supposedly expose the lie that Hamas is a local resistance movement opposing Zionist occupation. It can be used to suggest that Hamas targets Jews anywhere because they are Jews. That it is part of a global jihadist movement, a threat to Jews but also a wider threat to western civilisation as a whole.
It will be used to try to taint the whole pro-Palestine movement.
This Israeli regime is not going to just wise up and say that they’ve been wrong for 70 years. All attempts to get justice for the Palestinians is going to be accompanied by non-stop accusations of antisemitism, that all Jews will be in danger, that all Israelis will be murdered, etc. And no doubt there will be many more deaths, maimings, and destruction along the way.
The world will have to push through all of that to get to the goal of a free Palestine.
It’s like a toddler in a temper tantrum. You just have to carry on because they are not rational and don’t know what’s good for them.
Ken Klippenstein has the shooter's manifesto. Guess what? It was Gaza...
Confirming what we knew all along - Hamas embeds itself among Gaza’s civilians, even hospitals are not off limits. "...inside the hospital, terrorists distributed grenades and mortars, along with equipment for ambushing IDF troops and tanks. "The corporate media are complicit in the Gaza genocide. Never forget what they did. Never forgive them for it.
Re: and here's one of the "what can we do for the Palestinians?" victim on bombing hospitals
The gunman, named by police as Elias Rodriguez, 30, of Chicago, approached a group of four people leaving an event at the Capital Jewish Museum and opened fire, killing Yaron Lischinsky and Sarah Milgrim, who officials said were in a relationship.
This vigilantism (I'm assuming that is what it is) is not helpful to the Palestinian cause. It just gives Israel supporters more ammunition for their antisemitism scare campaign.
The Guardian's film critic Peter Bradshaw...just ignorant or hasbara tool?
Just read his review and two things jumped out, two things that are casually dropped in, like they so often are in the msm, despite being straight out of the hasbara handbook.
1) "a people haunted by the antisemitic butchery of 7 October." 2) "those who want what they wanted before 7 October – an end to the state of Israel."
Quote: Yes review – a fierce satire of Israel’s ruling classes, radioactive with political pain
Cannes film festival Nadav Lapid’s brilliant, showy set-pieces present a caricature of decadence and heartlessness in a society haunted by 7 October
Nadav Lapid’s Yes is a fierce, stylised, confrontational caricature-satire that invites a comparison with George Grosz, dialled up to 11 in its sexualised choreography and almost radioactive with political pain. With icy provocation, Israel’s ruling classes are presented as decadent and indifferent to the slaughter and suffering of Gaza. But the film is also in some ways a sympathetic study of a people haunted by the antisemitic butchery of 7 October.
It is inspired by the activist group Civic Front, which after 7 October released a new version of Haim Gouri’s classic song Hareut, or Fellowship, with jarring new lyrics calling for wholesale extermination in Gaza. A fictional version of this song features here, with lyrics about attacking the bearers of the swastika (as in the original) but also presents its audience with slick equivalence: the “Nazi” gotcha-comparison is levelled at Israel in a way that it isn’t at other countries. There is an odious Russian fintech bro here, commissioning jingoistic, nationalistic music; the suggested equivalence between Putin and Israel is presented without subtlety, although subtlety is maybe beside the point. One fourth-wall breaking scene has one man list the people who are supposedly anti-Israel: the BBC, CNN, the New York Times – and then turn furiously and directly to the camera: “… and you too are anti-Israel!”
Y (Ariel Bronz) is a musician and composer married to Yasmin (Efrat Dor) whose family’s money and connections promise a comfortable future for them both and their year-old baby in Tel Aviv. They are enjoying an almost frantic high life of partying, booze and drugs, amid people who want to affirm their reality, to show the world and each other that they are not to be cowed by terrorism and by those who want what they wanted before 7 October – an end to the state of Israel.
But Y is traumatised by the recent death of his mother and the reality of the family’s cramped conditions in a tiny flat. He composes a new, aggressively anti-Gaza song, apparently with the patronage of a wealthy Russian (played by Aleksei Serebyakov) and, brought to the edge of some profound emotional breakdown by the strain of processing the agony of 7 October and – perhaps – by the suspicion that the response is futile vengeance, Y abandons his family and heads off to reconnect with his old lover Leah (Naama Preis). Leah, a translator with access to restricted official documents, can give him the authentic details about the 7 October atrocity – details that Y simultaneously fears and demands. And he is seized with a desire to scream his poem, cruelly or cathartically, from Golani Hill, otherwise known as the Hill of Love, which overlooks Gaza City itself.
As before with Lapid, there are brilliant, showy set-pieces: the opening party scene is a marvel of extremity and nightmarish jaded sensuality. The point is evidently to suggest their heartlessness and solipsism – although this approach is not as powerful as the more plausibly real scenes showing Y with Leah. As one character says: “You are devastated by what it is to live in Gaza, but you don’t know what it is to be Israeli.” It is a paradox within which this film lives.
You simply cannot give Israel sympathy. For anything. Ever. No matter what happens. Israel uses any sympathy it's given as a weapon to justify murdering people. If someone uses something as a weapon to hurt people, it's immoral to keep handing them weapons. You must disarm them.
on May 22, 2025, 6:12 am