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.
- Killing TWO that work for Israel: an act of unspeakable violence
- Killing more than 53000 in Palestine: “Israel has the right to defend itself”
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In other news at leas 82 Palestinians were killed today
Not to mention the IOF firing at a diplomatic mission in the West Bank earlier today.
They didn’t even deny it, they just said “they were warning shots because the diplomats veered off the approved path”.
only case where this is acceptable
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).
These are basically just random people.
Brian Thompson made decisions that killed people, that seems fairly unlikely to be the case here.
If someone [redacted] Netanyahu, I’ll donate to his defense fund. There’s nothing about this to celebrate.
There is everything about this to celebrate. Zionists are Nazis, and I applaud every effort to rid this planet from cancer
I agree. All zionists should be looking over their shoulders, regardless of their rank
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
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?’
Oh, they’re devastating at the ‘unspeakable act of violence’? American elementary school students are trained for more violence than this.
That’s awful. Only two?
Senselessly
Rare news these days that makes sense tbh
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
well im glad i donate to the PSL
Lol, they’re already out there crying crocodile tears over “anti-Semitism”.
I hope this makes other foreign agents of the genocidal apartheid regime occupying Palestine really scared and paranoid. Zionists have had it far too good for far too long.
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!
Also mandatory
less than 24h after they shot at a delegation of 25 diplomats from 31 countries.
I haven’t even heard about this yet. Link?
Here : [https://hexbear.net/post/4987694]
I would compare it to the assassination of Ernst vom Rath by Herschel Grynszpan.
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.
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?
Rest in piss, bastards. May this happen to everyone who works for the zionist entity
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 you know the shooter was a lefty: they didn’t miss
based pfp
good lord they’re gonna declare PSL to be a terrorist org and start rounding members up aren’t they? Edit: not a member just briefly associated I think
I’d be surprised if this doesn’t end up happening.
Makes me wonder if the suspect was a patsy or fed.
Not ready to throw him under the bus just yet, propaganda of the deed might just be getting more popular as y’all’s country circles the drain.
But it does feel like they could do some fuckery and try for RICO charges like they were planning on Pro-Palestine protest organizers.
A few years ago I put forward a theory on here that overtime it would not matter whether we do or do not support adventurism - it will happen.
Individuals carrying out acts of leftist violence is not something orgs can prevent. It’s going to happen. It’s going to happen more and more as revolutionary potential gets higher and higher. The higher revolutionary potential gets, the more it will occur.
Adventurism isn’t something that needs to be shot down or something that can even be affected by opposing it. If we create conditions that make people revolutionary then some of the ones that aren’t organised but are angry enough will act of their own accord.
Adventurism is a signal indicating revolutionary energy. The increase in adventurism is a demonstration of an increase in revolutionary energies. What matters is organising those energies without reducing them.
Well said
And, I will add, the principle mistake I see among orgs, ML and otherwise, has been to unintentionally take part in reducing revolutionary energy while opposing such acts.
It’s very easy for people to get an unintended cooling off of revolutionary energy in the process of condemning or disavowing actions carried out by individuals or the strategies of other orgs. We’ve seen a number of revolutionary orgs soften into electoral orgs and even social-democracy over time, that’s because of mistakes in nurturing and maintaining revolutionary energy.
A lot of times, the tut-tutting over adventurism comes off more as cowardice than any principled stance against adventurism as a strategy. There’s a very big difference between Stalin who robbed banks saying adventurism isn’t the way and a bunch of timid nerds in a book club saying adventurism isn’t the way.
Adventurist acts reflect well on the willingness and courage of the people performing them. Adventurists should be seen as brave but not particularly strategic or even smart individuals. But forced between brave and dim people vs smart cowards, the brave and dim people are vastly more useful. If nothing else, brave and dim people can be trained to become brave and smart people through study of theory, but how do you cultivate bravery among cowards?
Apparently the museum is across the street from an FBI field office.
Then again, you probably can’t throw a rock in D.C. without hitting a fed.
waiting for the hexbear account reveal tbh
Was he a member of the PSL?
Ah but he did have a window of association, that’s all it takes.
Briefly, almost a decade ago
Yeah that detail is unimportant to those who want a reason to liquidate the party.
I don’t think any detail is important to those who want to liquidate the party. They were going to find a reason sooner or later and probably use this whether or not they could materially link him. Edit: also that’s no reason to write their headlines for them.
yeah i’m 100% not joining the psl now, this is like the best possible example of why adventurism is bad
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