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.
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.
My opinion is zionists are not going to be scared to be zionists because of one shooting which results in an overwhelming state response and likely passing laws to further protect them and criminalize any dissent. I mean this is the US, you're likely to be shot for doing nothing but being in the wrong place at the wrong time, one instance is kind of background noise when the targets are low level employees.
And if they are scared do you know what they do? They run to their colony, they run there and hide and proclaim loudly how unsafe they were as Jews outside it. Again it plays right into things. If this were replicated a dozen times like school shootings maybe but it still wouldn't influence US policy-makers when it's a bipartisan project, it wouldn't scare Microsoft and Google from assisting them because it doesn't target them, it wouldn't scare the leadership in the entity because they're safe and have police details when they travel. Which feeds into:
Not wrong. In that obvious symbols of power have more resonance. This was poorly done and I only hope against hopes this person has no relations to PSL, ANSWER, etc and wasn't a rabid watcher of say Hasan because anyone they can tie this to they will and they will move to crush them. They can designate PSL a terrorist organization, ANSWER the same, they can arrest Hasan or at least deplatform him and this isn't going to resonate. This isn't going to get a bunch of people to say "obviously they deserved it" like if it had been someone much more central.
I mean this is just about the worse target you could pick. The zionist advocacy orgs are more directly responsible and obvious in terms of public resonance, the lobbying firms, the tech enablers, etc.
I think this was an ill thought out act of despair, it was individualistic, not carefully and extensively planned. His distant association with PSL was unfortunate and reckless and they've been looking for a way to crack down on the orgs organizing the pro-Palestine stuff for a while and even a distant link will be enough if the zionists seize on it. At the very least this turns up the heat on PSL which is not okay.
I maintain you want to scare the zionists and intimidate them within the entity where it matters, to drive them back to their homes in Europe and the US and you want to target the enablers with BDS and direct action in the enabling states. Activists in the UK have shut down suppliers for weapons companies, weapons companies in the US are well guarded but acts against the operability and profitability of their suppliers may be possible. Same with tech company enablers, you shame the employees, you implore them to join, you make them feel bad, you disrupt their CEO appearances and shame them, you tie them publicly to genocide and tarnish their company names and images and create negative sentiment which creators pressure.
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I think if you're not ready to deal with the possibility of random acts of adventurism, then you are not ready to deal with a revolution. Because what do you think is going to happen as the conditions for a revolution increase? Something like this happening is almost inevitable, and we certainly won't see revolution without more incidents like this happening. What do you think is going to happen in a revolution? Do you think you can achieve that without somehow inciting the full strength of what the government can do to stop us? Like if we somehow just managed to stop every single individual from ever considering adventurism (which is impossible), that we could do revolution peacefully, or without inciting them to crack down? Like sure, we can agree that what this person did wasn't well thought out, but this shit is going to happen as conditions worsen. It's not about not giving them an excuse, they will find an excuse if they want to, even if this didn't happen.