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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.

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[–] geneva_convenience@lemmy.ml 104 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (25 children)

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

[–] Cowbee@lemmy.ml 29 points 6 days ago

Won't find me weeping for an active defender of genocide being put in the cemetary.

[–] bennieandthez@lemmygrad.ml 37 points 6 days ago

a innocent fella, such a tragedy 😔 anyways....

[–] Turbonics 34 points 6 days ago

Ohnoanyways.gif

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[–] shadowfax13@lemmy.ml 101 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (1 children)

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

[–] belastend@slrpnk.net 24 points 6 days ago

Holy shit. This is insanely profound. Not dehumanizing his targets but acknowledging their humanity and therefore, their responsibility and the gravity of the thing he is about to do.

This wasn't a raving mad man stabbing or shooting the nearest, most Jewish looking person, this seems to have been a targeted shooting.

[–] umbrella@lemmy.ml 38 points 6 days ago
[–] BigMacHole@lemm.ee 34 points 6 days ago

This is HORRIBLE! Doesn't he know you're ONLY allowed to Murder CHILDREN and BABIES otherwise you're ANTI SEMETIC!

[–] gradual@lemmings.world 44 points 6 days ago (13 children)

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

They need to be afraid to walk the streets.

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[–] Adderbox76@lemmy.ca 14 points 5 days ago (2 children)

I know it makes me a terrible person. But I have trouble coming up with any response to this except "good. The time for bullshit words is over"

[–] BrainInABox@lemmy.ml 13 points 5 days ago

They were judged under the standard they themselves espoused.

[–] iridebikes@lemmy.world 10 points 5 days ago

They were very pro Trump. The kind of Israelis that celebrate the genocide.

[–] GoodOleAmerika@lemmy.world 34 points 6 days ago

They will spin this off for anti semitism. Nothing to do with genocide in Palestine. Thank God for whoever invented the cameras in cell phone that we could see the massacre around the world. Imagine how bad it was before smart phones were invented.

[–] IttihadChe@lemmy.ml 30 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

"waow waow waow waow waow"

[–] KrasMazov@lemmygrad.ml 20 points 6 days ago

zionazis down crab-dance

[–] wpb@lemmy.world 19 points 6 days ago (3 children)

I'm very conflicted on this. On the one hand, it is a good thing when genocide collaborators die, that's two less to worry about, but on the other, this could serve as a catalyst for further Zionist crackdowns on free speech.

[–] dRLY@lemmy.ml 16 points 6 days ago

I understand the catch 22 of it. But they are already doing crackdowns, and even without this, they have already planned more crackdowns. So it means that being afraid/concerned about potential crackdowns only really helps the Zionists/fascists. Just like the Dems always being concerned about how the Republicans will react makes them not actually accomplish anything ever. Never bothered to force things like Roe v Wade into official law when they had chances and just kept it as just an up in the air thing. There are very much times and places for trying "good faith" efforts. But they mean nothing and get stomped on if you already know the other side is "bad faith" only.

[–] lorty@lemmy.ml 12 points 5 days ago (1 children)

They were already cracking down. Did you forget what happened to the student protests?

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[–] BrainInABox@lemmy.ml 12 points 5 days ago

They were going to crackdown anyway. There is no form of effective resistance to Israel that they would not respond to with escalating violence

[–] BrainInABox@lemmy.ml 10 points 5 days ago

I don't necessarily believe that civilians are legitimate targets, but these two men, the government they served, and the government of the country they were killed in, are all extremely firm believers that they are.

[–] Reddfugee42@lemmy.world 9 points 5 days ago

I don't celebrate their deaths and I wish this didn't happen but if they support the same thing happening to other noncombatants, I have a hard time seeing how this isn't karma.

[–] b161@lemmy.blahaj.zone 17 points 6 days ago
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