#DC Shooting

[the-daughter-of-lilith]

Jews are not allowed to cry when tragedy strikes. Whether it's October 7th or the DC terrorist shooting, we have to preemptively "not make it about us."

Don't you dare worry for your own safety. Don't you know there's a genocide happening? /s

Yes, of course we ache for human life. It is a core principle of Judiasm to preserve it. We don't innately believe in a "Nazi" agenda.

[heatherchadler]

"but the people who got shot were israel supporters!!!" ok, and? that doesn't justify murder ffs

[theredqueenandthebloodwyrm]

Turns out equating Israelis and Jews with Nazis does have consequences. I mean Jews and Non-Jews alike have been saying that but nobody seems to understand or fucking care.

It's really easy to say why two people who got shot outside of a Jewish museum is in fact justified when you dehumanize them entirely with the thinking that they're "Nazis" or "Zionazis" therefore they're acceptable targets.

[perfectlyvalid49]

Two people were shot dead last night outside a Jewish event at a Jewish museum. Their murderer shouted “Free, free Palestine” not as a spontaneous exclamation, but as a chant straight from a “pro-Palestine” rally.

This was a hate crime, committed by a man who was either taught to hate, or had his hatred intensified by a movement that calls to “globalize the intifada,” which is exactly what this man was trying to do when he murdered people. He is not an outlier for this group (except, perhaps, in his willingness to act on their shared rhetoric) – he did exactly what the “pro-Palestine” movement routinely calls for.

The “pro-Palestine” movement is a hate group, just as vile as any other hate group. They claim that they’re not antisemitic, just anti-Zionist, but yesterday’s attack, like so many of their actions, was not targeted at Zionists, but simply at people who were perceived to be Jews. Antisemitism is their bread and butter, and if you will not denounce them for that, I cannot help but view you as an antisemite too.

*as always “pro-Palestine” is in quotation marks because while that’s what they call themselves, nothing that the movement has ever done has actually helped the Palestinian people, and they’ve proven quite willing to hurt Palestinians if it lets them attack Jews.

[emilieduchatele]

Ive seen at 3 different antizionist groups defend the shooting, have any of them condemned it?

[estera-shirin]

So I haven’t posted about the DC shooting because I’ve been processing it all. The violence. The reaction from the (non-Jewish) public. My own tangle of feelings.

Multiple things can be true at the same time. Here are the ones that are keeping me up at night:

- This shooting killed Sarah Milgrim and Yaron Lischinsky, two attendees of an event at a Jewish museum. It has made many Jews (myself included) scared to attend other Jewish community events.

- This shooting, despite the apparent intentions of the shooter, is not going to free Palestine. If anything, it will provide the government with a greater reason to crack down on any pro-Palestine activity, including peaceful protest. It also does not help Palestinians.

- Many Jews are rightfully afraid.

- Many non-Jews are responding with glee and support.

- Acts of violence like this are not surprising when Jewish safety is used as a pretense for massive violence against Palestinians in Gaza and a rollback of civil rights in the US. Using Jews as scapegoats does not make us safer—the opposite is true.

- The victims worked for the Israeli embassy (in low level positions), for a government which is credibly committing war crimes in Gaza.

- It is not clear if the shooter knew that or was simply targeting any attendee of this event, which was for young Jewish diplomats and professionals.

- The distinction between civilians and combatants is essential. These staffers were civilians. One can disagree morally with their careers working for the Israeli government, but that does not make it acceptable to kill them. Especially given that they as individuals had very little power over the war crimes Israel is committing in Gaza.

- They were people who had whole lives and hopes and futures.

- Their lives and deaths are being reported on far more than most of the thousands of Palestinians being killed in Gaza ever will be. There is an economy of grievability here that is difficult to ignore.

- The people of Gaza are starving. They need food and other humanitarian aid. Any discussion of freeing Palestine (particularly for those of us outside of the land who are not Palestine) needs to address this as a primary, if not THE primary, issue.

- As Sanhedrin 37a teaches, every life is an entire world.

[applesaucesupremacy]

decided not to engage and just blocked the idiot doing whataboutism on my post. it makes me sick that the response we get from gentiles after this tragedy is okay yeah it sucks that happened but have you guys considered gaza. yes! i have!

that's a whole other issue i have with the pro palestine movement. jews are not allowed to mourn our own. in fact, no one else is allowed to mourn their own. ukrainians don't matter because gaza. sudanese don't matter because gaza. the uyghurs don't matter because gaza. suffering is only valid when it happens to palestinians and all violence is okay if it is in their name.

im glad im already leaving the us. id be making plans to move to israel if i had to face a future with these losers.

[galateaunloved]

Pro-pallys really actually literally say "i should be able to gun down whoever i choose in the middle of the street without consequences"

[federal-reserve-bonds-dog]

ADL tracked a huge uptick in the amount of antisemitic threats made on telegram in the wak of the DC Jewish museum shooting https://x.com/ADL/status/1928246135212109911

[judithofthepast]

From the bottom of my heart, I want every social media warrior from the "Free Palestine" crowd to GO FUCK THEMSELVES.

You're not doing shit to support Gaza. All you do is spread hate, and now another two people are dead. This doesn't solve anything for Gaza. In fact, it just makes it worse. It takes credibility away from actual victims on both sides.

Stop with this hatred masked as activism. Stop pretending you care. It's despicable. The world is a worse place with you screaming in it. You're doing active harm and I hope one day you'll sit back and be ashamed of yourself.

Their blood is on your hands, and don't you dare say it's for a just cause. It's not. Stop pretending.

[jewish-vents]

I don’t want to be “that guy” but I have to correct some people. The male victim, Yaron Z”L HYD, was actually a Christian German-Israeli who is very Zionist. It doesn’t matter in terms of intent because the shooter clearly intended to kill Jews but out of respect for the victim, I want to make sure all his information is correct. Bless his and Sarah’s families-the Jewish people are behind them both

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[rebel-girl-queen-of-my-world]

"Vigilantism is on the rise because state lawlessness is on the rise."

This is even truer as we witness government entities like ICE completely disregarding fundamental things like due process. Our government acting like a predator instead of a protector or foundation for civic life is going to cause people to take things into their own hands, for better or worse.

[victusinveritas]

The manifesto in question.

Comment:

Increasingly feels like some sort of Operation Nemesis is the only way we're going to see a crumb of justice for all this.

Btw, anyone else creeped out by the flag that person in the picture is wearing. Star of David + a red cross, reminds me of what Umberto Eco said about how a good sign of fascism is when you see contradictory beliefs and symbols being jammed together.

[workersworldparty]

Shootings in D.C.: U.S./Israeli genocide in Gaza is the source of all violence – resistance is justified

When evaluating the May 21 shooting in Washington, D.C., the past 19 months of Israeli aggression throughout West Asia and especially its slaughter of the civilian population of Gaza with hundreds of thousands of people now facing starvation must be front and center. In those 19 months, despite massive opposition across the U.S. and internationally, both the Democrat and the Republican administrations continued to arm this genocide and aggressively target those who protest.

We in Workers World Party believe that organizing for collective resistance is the most effective weapon against the daily violence of imperialism. But we should never separate ourselves from those who take an action that they are driven to carry out, regardless of the personal cost to themselves. This includes the killing of two Israeli Embassy employees, allegedly by Elias Rodriguez on May 21. 

https://www.workers.org/2025/05/85791/

[plitnick]

Project Esther In Action: The Aftermath of the DC Jewish Museum Shootings

There is no evidence at all that the heinous murders at the DC Jewish Museum were motivated by antisemitism, yet many simply parrot antisemitism as the cause. Read more at Cutting Through