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submitted 2 months ago by MicroWave@lemmy.world to c/news@lemmy.world

Police said a suspect was in custody after the shooting near the Capital Jewish Museum

A suspect is in custody after shooting dead two Israeli embassy staff outside a Jewish museum in Washington on Wednesday night.

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.

Metropolitan police chief Pamela Smith said the shooter had been pacing outside the museum, which is steps away from the FBI’s field office, before the shooting.

After killing the pair, who officials said were a couple, he walked inside, where event security detained him. The suspect yelled: “Free, free Palestine,” after he was arrested, police said.

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[-] nondescripthandle@lemmy.dbzer0.com 128 points 2 months ago

Israel makes Jewish people around the world less safe when it claimed it would do the opposite.

[-] queermunist@lemmy.ml 40 points 2 months ago

Which only benefits Israel. If Jewish people are less safe in their home countries they are incentivized to become Israeli settlers.

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[-] crusa187@lemmy.ml 73 points 2 months ago

Israel is now the primary driver of antisemitism throughout the world.

[-] nieminen@lemmy.world 15 points 2 months ago

Technically the genocide is antisemitic, because Palestinians are semitic.

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[-] Milk_Sheikh@lemm.ee 71 points 2 months ago

Genuinely awful for these two and their families, but the same can be said for ~53,000 dead Palestinians and the rest who are actively starving to death in a Israeli-made famine while aid rots onboard trucks across the border. Both acts are deliberate, and both were avoidable.

And while they were both working for the current extremists in power atm via the diplomatic service, they were a lot more moderate too:

Lischinsky “I’m an ardent believer in the vision that was outlined in the Abraham Accords and believe that expanding the circle of peace with our Arab neighbours and pursuing regional cooperation is in the best interest of the state of Israel and the Middle East as a whole. To this end, I advocate for interfaith dialogue and intercultural understanding.”

Milgrim organised visits and missions to Israel. She was also a volunteer at Tech2Peace, an advocacy group training young Palestinians and Israelis and promoting dialogue between them.

Tech2Peace said Milgrim was an active volunteer who “brought people together with empathy and purpose”.

[-] TranscendentalEmpire@lemm.ee 62 points 2 months ago

I mean also.....

"In his final post on social media hours before the attack, Lischinsky had shared a post from the Israeli ambassador, Amir Weissbrod, accusing UN officials of engaging in “blood libel” over claims that 14,000 children faced starvation in Gaza."

Not saying they deserved any violence, but even once moderate Israelis have been driven pretty far right in the last couple years. Accusations of blood libel while the state is actively starving children doesn't exactly seem to be promoting any positive dialogue.

[-] Milk_Sheikh@lemm.ee 34 points 2 months ago

Yeeeesh, hadn’t seen that reporting…

It’s unbelievably disappointing to see over and over again that Israelis are broadly okay with the death and destruction in Gaza, when a little over a generation ago they were on the cusp of a genuine two-state solution. And now it’s an ethnostate that practices apartheid, and it’s okay because “Bibi keeps us safe”. Almost as if nothing else matters.

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[-] JoMiran@lemmy.ml 71 points 2 months ago
[-] gnutrino@programming.dev 58 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

You're badly underestimating the scale of some of the post WWII genocides. The Khemer Rouge potentially killed more people than the total population of Gaza for example...

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[-] geneva_convenience@lemmy.ml 50 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

The man who got shot had an active Twitter account. Very stand-up guy. Such a shame he got killed.

And thank you president Trump for speaking out for the man who has always had your back. 🫡

[-] chronicledmonocle@lemmy.world 22 points 2 months ago

While any loss of life should be saddening, this dude REEEEALLY makes it hard to be empathetic.

[-] ikidd@lemmy.world 19 points 2 months ago

Rest in piss.

[-] iAvicenna@lemmy.world 15 points 2 months ago

Well he seems like a total piece of soulless shit, lets give him that.

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[-] BigBenis@lemmy.world 44 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Heartbreaking to see, but sadly it was only a matter of time until something like this happened. This war on Gaza is growing increasingly unpopular and people feel powerless to stop the ongoing genocide being conducted by Israel. I don't support attacks against random civilians but I'm not surprised somebody saw an opportunity to make a statement. These deaths are on Netanyahu along with the tens-of-thousands of Palestinians killed since the war started.

[-] TheDoozer@lemmy.world 28 points 2 months ago

It doesn't look like this was an "attack on random civilians." Out of all the people they could have killed, they killed people who work for the Israeli Embassy. They worked for the government doing the genocide.

Now did they support it? Who knows, but this shooter was not shooting up a movie theater. It was no more random than the United Healthcare CEO.

[-] iAvicenna@lemmy.world 14 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

not really random, this guy seems on par with the Israelis watching Gaza bombings from a cliff while eating popcorn. He also seems to have a full hard on for Trump, so for him all kinds of humanitarian crimes are probably ok as long as the president supports Israel State's genocide. So not really random, perhaps more on the same level as Luigi.

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[-] harmsy@lemmy.world 37 points 2 months ago

Bro, you're not going to stop a genocide by busting a cap in two nobodies half a world away.

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[-] spankmonkey@lemmy.world 28 points 2 months ago

Free Palestine!

[-] Godric@lemmy.world 26 points 2 months ago

ITT: People fine with innocents being murdered because of their ethnicity.

Fucking hypocrites.

[-] bdonvr@thelemmy.club 36 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

TIL Zionism is an ethnicity

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[-] wpb@lemmy.world 13 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

The guy was killed because he was a German Christian? That's crazy, I could've sworn the killing had something to do with him working for Israel or something, and because Israel is committing a genocide. But if you say he was killed because he was a German Christian, I'm not one to argue with that.

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[-] Machinist@lemmy.world 22 points 2 months ago

Well, fuck. This moron didn't help the Palestinians one bit. Just reinforces propaganda about opposition to the genocide being antisemitic.

[-] Pyr_Pressure@lemmy.ca 20 points 2 months ago

Ya only because idiots will read it that way.

Embassy staff are basically political targets, not ethnic ones, but people will read it that way because anything against Israelis is being anti-jew not anti-israel.

[-] explodicle@sh.itjust.works 13 points 2 months ago

The press will highlight the Jewish Museum part and not the embassy staff part.

[-] EndlessNightmare@reddthat.com 14 points 2 months ago

I think only those who already/still support Israel will see it that way.

Everyone else is sick of their shit and isn't going to buy the "antisemitic" line because it's been milked dry. We are well past the point where them doubling-down on calling everything "antisemitic" is going to sway any new people.

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[-] andybytes@programming.dev 20 points 2 months ago

So, there's a lot of things happening in Gaza other than what's on the nose. Like starvation can cause neurological issues in the brain, in the body. It can even make your hair turn gray. All the stress. During World War I, soldiers came back with a thing called shell shock, and they would just constantly shake all the time. The kids in Gaza are showing symptoms of shell shock. So I could care less about two people getting killed.

[-] homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world 19 points 2 months ago

A woman who attended the event, Katie Kalisher, told CBS News that she encountered the alleged shooter right after hearing gunfire.

"Then this man comes in … but he was covered in rain and just looking really distressed and scared," Kalisher told "CBS Mornings." "We were comforting him because we thought that he was just somebody out in the street looking for a safe place to stay because he heard some gunshots."

She said she talked to him to try to help him relax. "I asked him, 'So, do you like the museum?' And he's kind of playing dumb with me," she said about the interaction. "He goes, 'Oh, what kind of museum is this?' I told him, 'It's a Jewish museum.' He asked, 'Do you think that's why they did this attack' … referring to the rounds that we heard."

She said she told him she didn't think so and asked if he was OK. Then, she said, "He reaches into his bag and pulls out a keffiyeh and says, 'I did it. I did it for Gaza.' And, just starts shouting, 'Free Palestine.'"

[-] MuskyMelon@lemmy.world 16 points 2 months ago
[-] TherapyGary 25 points 2 months ago

By victims, I assume you mean Palestinians?

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[-] HighFructoseLowStand@lemm.ee 14 points 2 months ago

This guy shot people coming out of the Capital Jewish Museum.

He had no way of knowing who they were.

He didn't kill them for working for Israel.

He killed them for being Jews.

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