A man and woman, both staff members at the Israeli Embassy, were killed in a shooting near the Capital Jewish Museum in Northwest D.C. on Wednesday night.
The shooting occurred near the museum in the 500 block of 3rd Street NW around 9:10 p.m. where an event, the Young Diplomats Reception for young Jewish professionals, was held. The museum is located steps away from the FBI’s Washington Field Office.
D.C. Police Chief Pamela Smith said at a news conference late Wednesday night a man, now identified as 30-year-old Elias Rodriguez, of Chicago, “approached a group of four people, produced a handgun and opened fire,” striking the couple.
She added that Rodriguez then entered the museum and chanted “Free, free Palestine!”
Rodriguez was detained by museum security personnel and confessed to the crime. A weapon was recovered from the scene. According to Smith, Rodriguez was observed pacing outside the museum before the shooting.
Israeli Foreign Minister Gideon Saar identified the couple as Yaron Lischinsky and Sarah Milgrim. Lischinsky was a research assistant, and Milgrim organized visits and missions to Israel.
D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser said at the news conference that the District government “will not tolerate this violence or hate in our city. We will not tolerate any acts of terrorism, and we’re going to stand together as a community in the coming days and weeks to send a clear message that we will not tolerate antisemitism.”
Ted Deutch, the CEO of the American Jewish Committee, the organization holding Wednesday night’s event, said in a statement on X: “We are devastated that an unspeakable act of violence took place outside the venue.”
He added that while the organization waits for more information, “our attention and our hearts are solely with those who were harmed and their families.”
Israel’s ambassador to the United States, Yechiel “Michael” Leiter, described through tears that the couple that was killed were planning to get married, and that the man had just purchased a ring with plans to propose in Jerusalem.
“They were a beautiful couple who came to enjoy an evening in Washington’s cultural center,” he said.
Leiter added that President Donald Trump contacted him to tell him “his administration is going to do everything it can possibly do to fight and end antisemitism and the hatred that’s being directed, the demonization and delegitimization of the State of Israel.”
Prosecute it as terrorism and give the fuck the needle.
Nice is overrated
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May 22, 2025, 09:09 AM
400m
Skip the needle. Chain him to a tree and make him dig graves until he keels over.
Originally posted by darthfuster: Dang I hate the left
No matter how much, it is not nearly enough!
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May 22, 2025, 10:58 AM
sigmonkey
"the meaning of life, is to give life meaning" ✡ Ani Yehudi אני יהודי Le'olam lo shuv לעולם לא שוב!
May 22, 2025, 01:26 PM
Sigmund
FBI raids East Albany Park residence amid investigation into fatal shooting of Israeli Embassy staffers in DC
by: Gabriel Castillo, Emmy Victor, Winnie Dortch Posted: May 22, 2025 / 09:53 AM CDT Updated: May 22, 2025 / 12:43 PM CDT
CHICAGO (WGN) — FBI agents in Chicago raided a residence on the city’s Northwest Side on Thursday morning as investigators look to piece together what led to the shooting of two Israeli Embassy staff members in Washington, DC.
The deadly shooting unfolded Wednesday night as the victims were leaving an event at the Capital Jewish Museum.
Authorities said the suspect, 31-year-old Elias Rodriguez, a Chicago resident, was taken into custody just after the shooting after he walked into the museum and was detained by event security...
...Few details about the shooter were available Thursday, but a spokesperson for the American Osteopathic Association (AOA) confirmed that he was an employee...
This pos - is he muslim? Palestinian? Has some personal grievance with ISR?
Or just common variety leftist idiot maggot POS?
No excuses. But pathetic if he’s just a simple common idiot.
"Wrong does not cease to be wrong because the majority share in it." L.Tolstoy "A government is just a body of people, usually, notably, ungoverned." Shepherd Book
The butcher with the sharpest knife has the warmest heart.
May 22, 2025, 04:44 PM
chbibc
"The word “Palestine” should by now have the same opprobrium as “Nazi.” There can be no salvaging from either obscene movement any humanity. The obsession with old grievances mutates into insanity until insanity becomes the distinguishing mark of the movement. Urged on by fools, gullibles and haters, this is what we get."
Author: Chris Bakes
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May 22, 2025, 04:54 PM
Mars_Attacks
Bowser should be charged with propagating this violence and held without bond for four years.
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Eeewwww, don't touch it! Here, poke at it with this stick.
May 22, 2025, 05:11 PM
gojoe
The left is slowly opening a can of woe that will not end the way they think it will.
May 22, 2025, 06:16 PM
sjtill
quote:
"The word “Palestine” should by now have the same opprobrium as “Nazi.” There can be no salvaging from either obscene movement any humanity.
chbibc--I had until just now not thought of it that way, despite knowing that Hamas has acted in a way far more reprehensible than the Nazis, who were ashamed for the world to know what they were doing. And the Palestinian Authority is only marginally better than the ultimate evil of Hamas.
We can't even get the elites and mainstream media to say that the Communists were as bad as the Nazis. "No enemies on the Left" is I think from the 1920's, but is as true today, since the extreme left performed their coup d'état and removed Biden from his role as president.
On that side you have the most extreme, violent Left allied with the most extreme, violent Islamists. They are being let loose on our society in order to punish us for being white, for loving America, for defending Israel.
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May 22, 2025, 06:22 PM
ScreamingCockatoo
The young man wasn't even Jewish. Free Palestine is a terrorist movement. All of it. Time to classify it as such.
He who fights with monsters might take care lest he thereby become a monster.
May 22, 2025, 06:30 PM
Bytes
quote:
Originally posted by darthfuster: Dang I hate the left
As do I. My patience is wearing very thin with libtards.
May 22, 2025, 06:48 PM
Skins2881
Well the left has a new hero now, this guy and the United Healthcare CEO murderer. They sure know how to pick em. I hope the Center and old school Democrats are paying attention, this is your voting block, do you like being associated with these people?
Cue the media to air opinions on 'both sides' of the murders/terroristic act.
Jesse
Sic Semper Tyrannis
May 22, 2025, 07:53 PM
patw
Amazing at how much the left loves evil,actually it's not. That is what they are all about.
May 22, 2025, 07:56 PM
sjtill
I just posted something on X:
quote:
For all those of us distraught by the brutal murders at the Jewish museum: 1. This was a public gathering at an openly Jewish event, with members of the Israeli Embassy staff present. 2. There was security present. In fact, it's reported that a "security person" let the shooter in to the event. 3. The shooter lingered after the shooting, apparently pretending to be a "witness". Given the above, I haven't seen anyone asking the question: How was this allowed to happen, given an ongoing war in Gaza; given semi-violent demonstrations around the U.S. against Israelis and Jews? Someone at the Israeli Embassy should answer, I think, for the appalling deficiencies in security.
Am I wrong?
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May 23, 2025, 08:53 AM
John Steed
Anyone notice: When a lunatic attacked Polosi's husband, the media was quick to jump on some scrap of pro-MAGA paraphernalia found in the attacker's house as evidence that "Trump's extremist right-wing language inspires this type of violence".
So they will now analyze every scrap of paper in Elias Rodriguez dwelling place to determine which political figures inspired his act of violence, right?
