Two staff members at the Israeli Embassy in Washington, DC, were killed Wednesday night near the Capital Jewish Museum, Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem said.
“Two Israeli Embassy staff were senselessly killed tonight near the Jewish Museum in Washington DC,” Noem said in a post on X. “We are actively investigating and working to get more information to share.”
Two people believed to be connected to the Israeli Embassy in Washington, DC, were shot Wednesday night near the Capital Jewish Museum, according to a source familiar with the situation and a law enforcement source. Another law enforcement source told CNN that two people were killed.
DC Police said its investigating a shooting across the street from the FBI’s Washington Field Office, which is located near the museum. The Israeli embassy is working with law enforcement.
The Israeli ambassador was not involved in the incident and was not at the location when the shooting happened, an embassy spokesperson told CNN.
US Attorney General Pam Bondi said in a post on social media that she and acting US Attorney for DC Jeanine Pirro have arrived to the scene of the shooting outside the Capital Jewish Museum.
Ted Deutch, the CEO of the American Jewish Committee, said his organization was hosting an event at the museum on Wednesday evening.
“We are devastated that an unspeakable act of violence took place outside the venue,” he said in a statement. “At this moment, as we await more information from the police about exactly what transpired, our attention and our hearts are solely with those who were harmed and their families.”
Israel’s Ambassador to the UN Danny Danon reacted to media reports of the shooting on Wednesday, saying in a statement on X, “The fatal shooting that took place outside the event that took place at the Jewish Museum in Washington, DC – in which Israeli embassy employees were also injured – is a depraved act of anti-Semitic terrorism.”
Police are advising people to avoid the area in Northwest DC.
This is a developing story and will be updated.
How you know the shooter was a lefty: they didn’t miss
Not going to revive the adventurism struggle session, but also I feel like Luigi action needs to aim higher than “staffers” (unless that is the media is being euphemistic about their role here).
There are, after all, levels of complicity and if adventurism is the name of the game, it needs to aim high up to maximally focus on the most complicit in order to make the tradeoff in crackdowns, etc. worth it.
I feel like this guy might have simply dreamed too small. It’s like, I see where you’re going, but small potatoes like this don’t actually have the same impact as Luigi (in fact, the response will sadly likely be predominantly negative).
“Acts of violence don’t win wars. Neither wars nor revolutions. Terrorism is useful as a start. But then, the people themselves must act.”
lawfully good anti-natalist
Look; the media already hated us. People were already getting fired over tame statements and censored. The crackdown started 2 years ago. We shouldn’t hide ourselves because of this, we should ask ourselves ‘what does solidarity really mean?’
caused a Japanese court to order the dissolution of the unification church
saved lives by causing a spike in approved health insurance claimsHopefully this does something good
Rest in piss, bastards. May this happen to everyone who works for the zionist entity
I hate Israel so much that i have critical support for climate change. Even human extinction will have one positive. That disgusting genocidal demonic patch of hell called Israel will cease to exist.
I mean, we aren’t going to “fix” climate change anyway. That’s been made apparent
True. At the same time the US and Israel are both completely lost causes. Accelerationism may be the only way out of this system. Does something better come after… who knows but imagine a world where these two cancer countries weren’t there to support all the biggest pieces of shit all over the planet.
It would be a huge improvement just because of how the US military and their proxies are by far the biggest polluters on the planet
they will use this to absolutely crack down on pro-Palestine people. Project Esther and all of that.
they will use anything to crack down on the movement. they already basically consider anyone who acknowledges Palestinian humanity to be a terrorist. the pace of a reaction is not governed by the conduct of the people who are facing the reaction, but by the radicalisation of those who carry it out and the ability of the targetted group to resist it, and right now the average zionist is as radical and depraved as the average SS commando
Yet there was no need to go behind the party’s back and greatly accelerate the speed of that repression. This act will not end the genocide, even worse now they and their western allies are going to be more emboldened. One of the few organizations dedicated to actual good in this country is very likely on the chopping block, its members now targeted to be put into the camps in el salvador, robbing them of the chance to potentially plan an escape or some other method of harm reduction.
How many vulnerable people have been condemned to death by this very act? The issue isnt with killing two rando zionazis and it shouldn’t be.
go behind the party’s back
PSL have not had any contact with this guy since 2017, why are you suggesting he’s in any way linked to them? Why are you repeating the enemy’s lies?
You think they care? This association he has with the PSL is already ground enough for them to do whatever repression they want. They will never stop and consider every single sandcoorn of nuance that lie between them and getting you (american left) into jail.
This isnt andor, there is no guarantee for victory. This act was done in the name of self-indulgency. The true sacrifice that we as revolutionaries have to make is putting our feelings second to whats best to actually achieve our goals. The western left OWES it to the people of Palestine and yemen and lebanon to be an actual efficient force.
If you haven’t been anticipating this escalation, then you and your party need to start now.
I am so ready to vote
If thats your takeaway then I am sorry for you.
First of all,
Second, I, in no uncertain terms, DISAVOW
Third, comrades who are affiliated to or otherwise associated with PSL, please do be careful. I would absolutely not doubt this will be used an an excuse to crack down on the party as a whole.
Is the US going to be defining PSL as a domestic terrorism organization? Possibly
That’s awful. Only two?
hasbara bots are seething on reddit. i saw some post about “october 8th when the bodies were still warm!!! 🥺🥺” lmao no clue what that even had to do with these two piggies being put down
fact: if you work for the nazi german goverment you are bad and deserve to be shot in the street like the lowest level of scum that you are
same goes for zionazi israelis 🤷🤷🤷
How convenient for Israel. That’s certainly a Reichtag Burning moment at a time when they are critically sinking in public opinion and less than 24h after they shot at a delegation of 25 diplomats from 31 countries. If this isn’t a classic mossad terror tactic, they must be overjoyed at the luck.
thats whats so funny about this to me. israel has killed how many people now visiting “their” ”country” from its western allies; with no consequence?
but when two of theirs come here to promote genocide, and they get shot, its the end of the world
fuck them kids!
I would compare it to the assassination of Ernst vom Rath by Herschel Grynszpan.
Going by this comparison we should expect to see articles about how the staffers were actually saints because they only wanted to murder 99% of Palestinians
I love the Free PressTM!
There was an article about how these staffers were actually peace loving no violence both sides people, no?
Dorothy Thompson’s defense of Grynszpan feels extremely apt:
I am speaking of this boy. Soon he will go on trial. The news is that on top of all this terror, this horror, one more must pay. They say he will go to the guillotine, without a trial by jury, with the rights that any common murderer has… Who is on trial in this case? I say we are all on trial. I say the men of Munich are on trial, who signed a pact without one word of protection for helpless minorities. Whether Herschel Grynszpan lives or not won’t matter much to Herschel. He was prepared to die when he fired those shots. His young life was already ruined. Since then, his heart has been broken into bits by the results of his deed. They say a man is entitled to a trial by a jury of his peers, and a man’s kinsmen rally around him, when he is in trouble. But no kinsman of Herschel’s can defend him. The Nazi government has announced that if any Jews, anywhere in the world, protest at anything that is happening, further oppressive measures will be taken. They are holding every Jew in Germany as a hostage. Therefore, we who are not Jews must speak, speak our sorrow and indignation and disgust in so many voices that they will be heard. This boy has become a symbol, and the responsibility for his deed must be shared by those who caused it
Yes its very unnerving how history repeats itself. Though the dude who did wasnt palestinian in our case.
Also mandatory
