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Two dead in shooting targeting Israeli embassy staffers outside Capital Jewish Museum in Washington D.C.
Daily Mail UK ^ | May 22, 2025 | Brittany Chain

Posted on 05/21/2025 9:44:25 PM PDT by Morgana

A crazed gunman shouted 'Free Palestine' after he shot and killed two Israeli embassy staff members outside the Capital Jewish Museum in Washington D.C.

The suspect, identified as Elias Rodriguez, was pacing back and forth before allegedly opening fire on a group of four people who were standing outside the museum. Rodriguez then entered the building, where he was taken into custody.

Israel's Ambassador to the United Nations Danny Danon described it as a 'depraved act of anti-Semitic terrorism.'

He said: 'The shooting outside the event at the Jewish Museum in Washington – in which Israeli embassy employees were also injured – is a criminal act of anti-Semitic terrorism.'

'Attacking diplomats and the Jewish community is crossing a red line.'

The American Jewish Committee was hosting a Young Diplomats event at the museum on Wednesday night when the terror unfolded, CEO Ted Deutch confirmed.

Emotional photos show an onlooker draped in a Jewish flag as police cordoned off the area surrounding the shooting.

President Trump issued a statement late Wednesday night condemning 'hatred and radicalism' which led to the vicious attack.

(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Local News
KEYWORDS: 20250521; antifa; assassin; assassinationplots; banglist; bombgaza; crime; eliasrodriguez; hamas; hezbollah; iran; israel; israelidiplomats; israeliembassy; jewish; jewishmuseum; nukemecca; ny; shooting; washingtondc; yemen
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To: Jaysin

Pakistanis with the surname “Rodriguez”? I just don’t see it happening.


21 posted on 05/21/2025 10:42:00 PM PDT by Morgana ( “Abortion is the ultimate exploitation of women.” — Alice Paul 🇺🇸 🇷🇺 )
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To: Morgana

This brave, courageous warrior sneaked up to unarmed people attending an event at a museum and killed them. Doesn’t take a lot of anything but evil to do that.


22 posted on 05/21/2025 10:43:17 PM PDT by frank ballenger (There's a battle outside and it's raging. It'll soon shake your windows and rattle your walls. )
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To: Morgana

I’ve been saying it for a while. Those who support terrorists are terrorists.

I hope that DHS and the FBI are keeping close tabs on all those pro-Hamas “protesters.”


23 posted on 05/21/2025 10:43:38 PM PDT by TigersEye (The Golden Age of MAGA is upon us!)
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To: ETCM

Omar will say “a Hispanic person did something “


24 posted on 05/21/2025 11:16:07 PM PDT by Bob434 (Time flies like an arrow, fruit flies like a banana)
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To: TigersEye; Morgana

Oh yes! This is what happened during the 1970s. Lots of left-wing demonstrations and “actions” - and then multi-national (Arabs, Germans, Japanese, Irish, Cubans etc) terror gangs acting all over the Western world.

Then those gangs were supported by the Soviets but also by criminal activities (bank robberies, drug smuggling etc) and oil-money from for instance Libya. Today? Make you own list. But the left-wing demonstrators and politicans are not innocent.


25 posted on 05/21/2025 11:46:48 PM PDT by ScaniaBoy (Part of the Right Wing Research & Attack Machine)
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To: Bob434

Muslim convert?


26 posted on 05/22/2025 12:07:05 AM PDT by kaktuskid
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To: gundog

The murdered couple were Christian Israelis.


27 posted on 05/22/2025 12:30:44 AM PDT by jjotto ( Blessed are You LORD, who crushes enemies and subdues the wicked.)
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To: kaktuskid

Yeah part of the Modus operandi of the genocidal democrats is to change their name. That kid will shortly be known as mohammed al-omars-princess when he’s in jail.


28 posted on 05/22/2025 1:48:01 AM PDT by Samurai_Jack (This is not about hypocrisy, this is about hierarchy!)
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To: Morgana

Nor does the “crazed” gunman , natural course of things after the left stoked the flames SS of hatred.


29 posted on 05/22/2025 2:37:51 AM PDT by blitz128
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To: Texas Eagle

Bingo😎

Just an average Maryland man drove to this by Trump😎😎


30 posted on 05/22/2025 2:39:23 AM PDT by blitz128
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To: RitchieAprile

“ What is a “Jewish flag””

It was circumcised.

(J/k)


31 posted on 05/22/2025 3:10:43 AM PDT by MeanWestTexan (Sometimes There Is No Lesser Of Two Evils)
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To: Morgana

“Rodriguez? It just don’t add up.”

Yeah, what’s his Muslim convert name?


32 posted on 05/22/2025 3:15:44 AM PDT by rxh4n1
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To: jjotto
The murdered couple were Christian Israelis.

Blessed be the Righteous Judge
33 posted on 05/22/2025 3:42:14 AM PDT by af_vet_1981 ( The bus came by and I got on, That's when it all began.)
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To: Morgana

Sickening.


34 posted on 05/22/2025 4:44:50 AM PDT by nuconvert ( Warning: Accused of being a radical militarist. Approach with caution.)
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To: Morgana
...The suspect, identified as Elias Rodriguez, was pacing back and forth before allegedly opening fire on a group of four people who were standing outside the museum...

A question: Especially after Oct 7, WTH doesn't that museum have better security and/or LE protection? Or was there and for some reason security didn't speak to/run off the perp?

35 posted on 05/22/2025 4:49:56 AM PDT by mewzilla (Swing away, Mr. President, swing away!)
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To: Morgana

You can blame the murders of these two young people on the bastards with diplomas and pizza place tablecloth hats that infest our college and universities across America. Muzzie terrorist lovers. Every one of the sorry bass turds need to be deported. Take their muzzie terrorism back to the middle east where it belongs. Screw Palestine and its murderers. Throw them out. They are too uncivilized to be infesting a civilized society. They can take their “diplomas” and get out!


36 posted on 05/22/2025 5:09:57 AM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (Where can Americans go to seek justice now that the RATS own the judiciary?)
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To: jjotto
The murdered couple were Christian Israelis.

How do you know that ? Ted Deutch said they were both Jews. In any case they are martyrs.

American Jewish Committee CEO Ted Deutch said “our worst fears came true” following the fatal shooting of two Israeli Embassy staff members at an event the committee hosted on Wednesday night.

“Last night, really our worst fears came true. This was an event we all look forward to every year that brings together AJC’s young leaders,“ Deutch said on Thursday. “This year, the focus was on humanitarian diplomacy. It was on finding ways to work together in an interfaith way across the region to help bring peace.”

He continued, “There were friends and allies of the Jewish community, people from across the diplomatic world. And all of the good feeling was shattered immediately after when these two, when these two beautiful young souls were taken by this murderer.”

Deutch said he was very familiar with both of the victims, telling CNN’s “This Morning” that “Yaron is an Israeli Jew. Sarah is an American Jew. Sarah was deeply involved with AJC. She’s traveled with AJC. She cared deeply for our work in the diplomatic space. And she and Yaron had a beautiful relationship. It’s a tragedy, of the worst magnitude that these beautiful young people were taken from us.”

37 posted on 05/22/2025 5:29:31 AM PDT by af_vet_1981 ( The bus came by and I got on, That's when it all began.)
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To: af_vet_1981

https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/408772

...Rob Prosor, Israel’s ambassador to Germany, shared personal shock at the attack: “Yaron and Sarah— working together at the Israeli Embassy in Washington D.C.— were murdered in a terrorist attack outside the Jewish Museum. A young couple with a bright future planning their life together.”

“Yaron, born in Nuremberg, wasn’t just a colleague. I had the privilege of having him as my master’s student at Reichman University. Bright, curious, engaged.”

“He was a Christian, a true lover of Israel, served in the IDF, and chose to dedicate his life to the State of Israel and the Zionist cause. He embodied the Judeo-Christian values and set an example for young people worldwide.”...
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And also:

[Amir Tsarfati: Yaron was the son of an Argentine Jewish father and a German mother that moved to Israel many years ago. As followers of the Messiah, Yaron and his family used to attend the King of Kings assembly in Jerusalem. He moved to the US around 4 years ago.]


38 posted on 05/22/2025 5:37:22 AM PDT by jjotto ( Blessed are You LORD, who crushes enemies and subdues the wicked.)
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To: jjotto

Wow, “May the memory of Yaron and Sarah be a blessing.”


39 posted on 05/22/2025 6:04:50 AM PDT by af_vet_1981 ( The bus came by and I got on, That's when it all began.)
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To: jjotto

Thank you. That clears up the flag. So. not a “Jewish flag,” as reported. Lazy journalism. I should probably count it a win that they aren’t being called Zionists in this piece.


40 posted on 05/22/2025 6:48:55 AM PDT by gundog (The ends justify the mean tweets. )
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