Israeli Embassy Staff Members Killed In D.C.

 

The law of unintended consequences is about to kick in on an entire movement because of the insane act of one person:

Two staff members of the Israeli Embassy in Washington were shot and killed Wednesday evening while leaving an event at a Jewish museum, and the suspect yelled, “Free, free Palestine” after he was arrested, police said.

Israeli Foreign Minister Gideon Saar identified the victims as Yaron Lischinsky and Sarah Milgrim. Lischinsky was a research assistant, and Milgrim organized visits and missions to Israel.

They were leaving an event at the Capital Jewish Museum when the suspect approached a group of four people and opened fire, Metropolitan Police Chief Pamela Smith said at a news conference.

The suspect, identified as Elias Rodriguez, 31, of Chicago, was observed pacing outside the museum before the shooting, walked into the museum after the shooting and was detained by event security, Smith said.

When he was taken into custody, the suspect began chanting, “Free, free Palestine,” Smith said. She said law enforcement did not believe there was an ongoing threat to the community...

As much as one might be outraged by the policies of the Netanyahu regime, what happened last night in Washington, DC, was a horrible and unconscionable act of terrorism.  Unfortunately but not unexpectedly, it's already being exploited by the Netanyahu regime and, with the Bondi/ Patel/ Pirro team at the Department of Justice, will soon be exploited here as well:

This is going to be bad for pro-Palestinian activism in the United States. The Department of Justice an the FBI are literally drooling over the prospect of tearing apart this idiot’s life in order to hunt down every contact he has in Palestinian activist networks. They are going to bend every anti-terrorism statute (and probably some organized crime law as well) to try to demonstrate consequential connections with other activists and activist groups, then rip those groups apart. It’s gonna be real fucking bad.

The two young people whose lives have been taken were attending an event described thusly:

“This event was about humanitarian aid,” [attendee Yoni] 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.”

What a mind-numbing, tragic waste.

(Photo:  Sarah Milgrim and Yaron Lischinsky / @IsraelinUSA/Twitter)