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Two Israeli embassy staff Luigi'ed in D.C.

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.

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How you know the shooter was a lefty: they didn't miss

"Acts of violence don't win wars. Neither wars nor revolutions. Terrorism is useful as a start. But then, the people themselves must act."

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).

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 claims
Hopefully 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

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.

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.
- 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.
  
  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 Press^TM!
  
  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
- 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

Oh, they're devastating at the 'unspeakable act of violence'? American elementary school students are trained for more violence than this.

alleged Manifesto of the shooter, posted by Ken Klippenstein . https://hexbear.net/post/4992846

In other news at leas 82 Palestinians were killed today
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblog/2025/5/21/live-israel-blocking-food-medicine-has-led-to-326-deaths-in-gaza
- 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

Vaxxed?

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

Covenant orbital piss laser inbound

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.

owned lol

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Latest

Senselessly
- Rare news these days that makes sense tbh

Good. Rot in hell zionists.

Get Luigi'ed!

This is frankly not good. Acts like this will lead to more excuses to crack down on pro-Palestine movement and BDS with incredible levels of harshness and state violence and yes probably moving to the level of outlawing groups and rounding people up. They'll also lead to crackdowns and attacks by the way on online spaces like this. They've been looking for excuses, here's one.
Adventurism doesn't work. Killing a couple of them -outside- the occupation isn't going to dissuade those in the entity from continuing the genocide. In fact it plays into their narrative of not being safe outside the entity and thus needing everyone to move to the entity and giving rise to the excuse for its existence and crimes. And it gives an excuse to play the victim again just when that was running dry. They don't care about not feeling safe outside of their occupation, they very much desire it. What works are things like Oct 7th, that drove the settlers to flee back to their homes elsewhere, what works is Ansar Allah's strikes and a bad economy.
If there's a need to create a cost in the west it shouldn't be against these but their enablers. Look at the actions of those activists in Britain shutting down weapons suppliers. Things like that have an positive impact by inflicting a cost for participating on those who are stuck there in terms of manufacturing or living situations.
Hope this guy is not part of or a frequent participant with any orgs. The gloves are not off yet contrary to what many may think and the US can hit much, much harder.
- Idk it did something to the PM of Japan and caused United Healthcare to start accepting a bunch of claims for a bit, and has sent them in a bit of a spiral lately. It seems to work sometimes. I think the only thing is that it should've targeted some higher people, in the same way the Japanese PM and CEO were targeted, why not aim for the highest of the high.
  On the other hand, by targeting lower people, you make Zionists scared to be Zionists, which is a good thing.
- silence nerd

Israeli Ambassador to the U.S. Yechiel Leiter said the two people killed were a young couple about to be engaged, saying the man had purchased a ring this week with the intent to propose next week in Jerusalem.
Former Israeli Ambassador to the U.S. Mike Herzog told Israeli Army Radio that the woman killed was an American employee of the embassy and the man was Israeli.
Yoni Kalin and Katie Kalisher were inside the museum when they heard gunshots and a man came inside looking distressed, they said. Kalin said people came to his aid and brought him water, thinking he needed help, without realizing he was the suspect. When police arrived, he pulled out a red keffiyeh and repeatedly yelled, “Free Palestine,’” Kalin said.
“This event was about humanitarian aid,” Kalin said. “How can we actually help both the people in Gaza and the people in Israel? How can we bring together Muslims and Jews and Christians to work together to actually help innocent people? And then here he is just murdering two people in cold blood.”
https://apnews.com/article/israel-embassy-jewish-museum-shooting-10307b3b1a2a337e76730736b12ebbcb
Who is this guy?
- How can we actually help both the people in Gaza and the people in Israel this event was about humanitarian aid
  WOW damn I wonder how many people there were pissed off that aid wasn’t being let into Gaza lmao
  Oh and HELP the people of Israel? HELLO??? My brother in Christ they have fucking Pilates classes and McDonald’s. How fucking dare you put them in the same fucking category as Gaza you piece of shit
  The idea that embassy staff would be attending an event that had the central focus of criticizing Israeli policy(because their position is we should send essentially NO AID) is literally the dumbest shit ever.
  Of course what this person actually means is “damn how can we send aid and make sure it doesn’t go to big bad hamas” “man this whole aid thing ah geeze this is so complicated what do we do????” When they very well fucking know that they can just quintuple the amount of aid coming in tomorrow without a problem.
  These people are fucking demonic liars and the amount of lies we’re gonna hear broadcasted in the news tomorrow might be too much for me to handle I might just limit my consumption for the first day because I know that’s gonna be the worst one
  
  helping israelis means them spending less time in their musty fuhrerbunkers when the rocket alarms go off

Lets gooo

Engaging in genocide long term, what else do they expect to happen?

The bullets have the right to defend themselves.

R slash trueanon proposes he was the member with the provided name mentioned in this PSL article from 2017 https://liberationnews.org/chicago-demands-justice-laquan-not-money-amazon/
- Looks like they disavow it now. He was only briefly associated with a branch in 2017 and they haven't had any contact with him for the last 7 or 8 years. Can't find the tweet because I don't have a Twitter account.
  Doesn't mean the government won't try to crack down on them but people should know what the truth is when they hear other people spouting this in the future.
- This exactly why people have been yammering about when they warn of adventurism. If you are part of an organization NEVER do something like this. Luigi had the privilege of being a rando. PSL members don’t.
- I’m genuinely worried about this. PSL is so based and they’ve been growing and doing great work, but if the feds come after them with everything they’ve got it would be tough for any org in that position.
  
  Yeah, uh, what was the expected consequence here? Like if it comes out that these "embassy staffers " are actually ranking officials that were targeted for a reason it makes more sense, although it still seems like "adventurism with more negative consequences than positive" if that's the case.
- What's the name?
  
  Elias Rodriguez of Chicago, looks like he had a red keffiyeh as well

This reads as low level adventurism to me.
Idk who these people are, but people who work at embassies mostly just file paperwork for passports and visas.
It's like going to the DMV for a shooting spree under the pretext of "these people serve the US state and federal government."
It doesn't seem targeted in any useful way.
- I've known people who work in embassies and yeah, a lot of those roles are most admin and organisational and accounting rather than being diplomats. But the fact that they were still working for the Israeli government at this point, isn't like working for the DMV. They're an essential cog in a genocide machine that only continues to exist and be tolerated because of the diplomatic connections they have with the US, the embassy in question.
  It's adventurism sure, but it is targeted. A high ranking diplomat might have more impact in terms of narrative, but would be just as disposable and replaceable to the Israeli regime. Most 'diplomats' for a pariah regime, in a friendly country, are basically just payoff positions for members of the boys club. And if this makes the people who do the actual work of making the mechanism work more likely to want to leave the job, all the better.
- Same logic would apply to the Second Intifada or Algerian War bombings, which both worked.
  
  But these events were done inside the occupied country against the occupation force. This will only lead to massive crackdowns on the people opposed to the genocide.
  
  What do you think this is going to work for? You think this has the gravity of those two events?
  These are genuine questions. Not being sarcastic.

Inject this shit directly into my veins

Lmao
- gottem

Working tirelessly to condemn this war crime or whatever they're saying it is

Be more respectful, some Republican just lost several thousand dollars in donations tonight.
- Israeli embassy workers in DC? Why would they be Republican donors? Or are you a Blueanon weirdo who's trying to disassociate genocide from the Democrats?
  
  wut
  
  I'm sure they were Republican donors. Democrat donors, too.

Whats the emoji for the guy in a suit lighting a cigar?
- :packwatch:
  
  Ty I would never have found that

On the one hand: Fuck zionists.
On the other: Adventurism these days hasn't really done much and if anything has entrenched capital to be more fascistic. See the actual Luigi.
- On the third hand, not doing adventurism hasn’t achieved much either
- Isn't UnitedHealth going bankrupt?
  
  Ok true
  
  Yep, in part because the additional attention on them helped to push a rats nest of corruption and illegal activity into the spotlight.

I'm... Gonna hold off on forming an opinion on this one, because there absolutely still are actual neonazis out there and they fucking LOVE co-opting pro-palestinian causes. Sure, the pro-israel crowd are going to call it antisemitic either way, but if they're right this time I don't want to be on the wrong side/give them ammo. As long as we don't cheer on actual antisemitism it's easy for thoughtful people to see through their propaganda but I feel like cheering on actual neonazi violence really erodes good faith. Also I just don't want to be saying a literal neonazi attack is good (call me crazy). It's easy to think antisemitism is over/superseded by islamophobia but the tree of life shooting wasn't that long ago.
- Don't bother worrying about "giving them ammo" they'll make shit up to justify whatever they were going to do anyway
  
  Of course they will, but when the ammo is literally cheering on antisemitic violence I would still rather not give it to them.
- Via BBC:
  The suspect has been detained and identified by police as 30-year-old Elias Rodriguez
  Police say he shouted "free Palestine" after being taken into custody, and officers will "look into ties to potential terrorism"
  
  Ah, that's that good shit. All the usual misgivings about propaganda of the deed on a strategic/tactical level but still good to see someone striking back. Make fascists afraid again.