Two staff members at the Israeli embassy in Washington are shot dead near a Jewish museum.

The shooting took place late Wednesday outside the Capital Jewish Museum, which was hosting an American Jewish Committee event at the time of the incident.

US Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem announced the deaths in an X post, saying, “We are actively investigating and working to get more information to share.”

The suspect, identified as 30-year-old Elias Rodriquez of Chicago, Illinois, “chanted 'Free, free Palestine,’ while in custody,” she added.

  • shadowfax13@lemmy.mlEnglish
    9·
    2 months ago

    shooter’s manifesto. this will be spun as some anti-semitic bs when its clearly a desperate last act given the crackdown on peaceful protests and our politician bribed enough by aipac not giving a fig about them even when public opinion is overwhelming against israel.

    https://www.kenklippenstein.com/p/the-israel-embassy-shooter-manifesto

    no one deserves death for others actions but an israeli delegate is much more complicit than those helpless children and other innocents getting butchered everyday by israel.

    these rich brats had a choice to be not part of the ongoing genocide or even make a stand. the children and families without water and food trapped in gaza have no choice other than to be target practice for idf scum

  • gradual@lemmings.world
    5·
    2 months ago

    Good. Hopeful more happens to zionist scum in the future.

    They need to be afraid to walk the streets.

      • orcrist@lemm.eeEnglish
        2·
        2 months ago

        That depends who and how often, as history has shown time and time again.

        I don’t advocate murder, but saying it’s never effective is arguing with reality.

      • IndustryStandard@lemmy.world
        1·
        2 months ago

        Yeah, what we need to do is ask them nicely. Like 500 times. Hold more peaceful marches. Keep marching and marching and getting beaten up by the police and never ever get any sanctions on Israel. That is surely going to achieve things.

    • nun@lemm.ee
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      2 months ago

      I mean he’s still a civilian and it it’s still murder but yeah hard to feel sad about it

      • geneva_convenience@lemmy.mlOP
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        2 months ago

        He served in the IDF for three years before his current role. Now he worked diplomatically for the Apartheid to aid in ethnically cleansing all Palestinians.

        It is truly terrible that this person who dedicated his life to dispossessing and murdering Palestinians was killed.

        • nun@lemm.ee
          0·
          2 months ago

          Literally the opposite of what I said. How do you go from ‘hard to feel sad about it’ to ‘ it’s truly terrible’?

          • geneva_convenience@lemmy.mlOP
            0·
            2 months ago

            Well he was but a simple innocent civilian enthousiastically participating in the genocide of all Palestinians. Killing such an innocent person is inexcusable.

            • Eugene V. Debs' Ghost@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
              1·
              2 months ago

              “You don’t understand, the people working on the Death Star just had a job to do and to follow its orders. It’s not any one of their fault that it blew up planets. RIP the brave workers on the Death Star I and Death Star II.”

  • TsarVul@lemmy.world
    0·
    2 months ago

    Adventurism sets back this movement of ours. This is what a revolutionary spirit without theory to back it up does. ADL is already using this as casus belli to silence pro-Palestine voices. CIA and Mossad are popping champagne bottles as we speak. And all they lost were two ultimately expendable Zionist bureaucrats. This is a fucking disaster.

      • TsarVul@lemmy.world
        0·
        2 months ago

        At the most immediate level, law enforcement presence will be increased in the DC area. Indirectly, this will further propagate the rhetoric of the Israeli state that antizionism is antisemitism. They’re already trying to spin this guy as a raging antisemite.

          • TsarVul@lemmy.world
            0·
            2 months ago

            Let me give you a hypothetical. Imagine that these murders happened just as they did. But now imagine that Palestine was not brought up. The guy just stayed silent. The 2 Zionists are dead all the same, but there is plausible deniability that this was not done in the name of Palestine. Like I’m saying, there is a more effective way to crash out, if you are going to crash out. Furthermore, you shouldn’t be crashing out on an individual level! When will we have it sink in that there is no individual solution to systemic issues? Organize!

            Learn from your enemy. Many Israeli officials still claim to this day is denying the genocide. It’s not because they think you’ll believe it. It’s about plausible deniability.

    • Tagger@lemmy.world
      111·
      2 months ago

      You’re right they didn’t. Israel need to be seriously looking at the security they provide to their staff members.

      When you become a genocidal terror state you have to accept that people around the world may try to reciprocate your violence against government officials.

      • tflyghtz@lemm.ee
        25·
        2 months ago

        You pay taxes? Then you too are part of the apparatus and deserve death by some even more radical’s reasoning.

        • IndustryStandard@lemmy.world
          4·
          2 months ago

          There is a massive difference between your taxes going to support Israel’s genocide unwillingly, and voluntarily joining the genocide apparatus.

        • machinin@lemmy.world
          2·
          2 months ago

          I agree, some people have little choice. Fortunately, I personally left America and no longer pay taxes so I don’t have to be part of that. Not everyone can do that.

          People who actively join the government and support Israeli efforts should be held accountable. I also have no sympathy for ICE agents in the US either.