Terror in DC: Where We Go From Here

WFB ^ | 22 May 2025 | Editors

[Rummyfan]

The Washington Free Beacon published exclusive video footage in late October 2023 of two Harvard graduate students accosting an Israeli classmate during an anti-Israel protest. As the Israeli student, Yoav Segev, tried to walk to his dorm, he was surrounded by student protesters who blocked his path and shouted, "Shame! Shame!"

Harvard took no disciplinary action. Rather, one of the malefactors, law student Ibrahim Bharmal, recently received a $65,000 fellowship from the Harvard Law Review that will underwrite his work next year at the anti-Israel outfit CAIR, and Harvard has celebrated Bharmal all over its website and social media platforms. Law enforcement, meanwhile, charged Bharmal and his pal with misdemeanor assault and battery, and they were ultimately let off with 80 hours of community service and required to attend an anger-management course.

It’s a microcosm of how the harassment of Jews on college campuses has been handled by many college administrators and law enforcement officials. Even when the police have been called to campus to deal with window smashers, occupiers, thugs—you know, criminals—they have been treated with kid gloves.

The cold-blooded shooting of two Israeli embassy staffers outside the Jewish museum in Washington, D.C., on Wednesday evening is the natural outgrowth of this behavior. The 30-year-old assailant, steeped in the radical anti-Israel and anti-Western ideology in which our universities are awash, is just past college age. So were his two victims, ages 30 and 26.

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[Rummyfan]

Americans of good conscience, including those in the federal government, can act now—pressing for the death penalty in this case and scrutinizing every group with which the perpetrator was affiliated—or live to regret it later. We can’t say we weren’t warned.

[Sirius Lee]

Like mohommedism, the democrat party is a death cult.

[PGalt]

BUMP

[mairdie]

Not a fond of the death penalty except in extreme cases, but this one is both extreme and a warning that Never Again still means something. I’ll support it here.

[AbolishCSEU]

Mayor Bow Wow — empty platitudes.

[albie]

“let off with 80 hours of community service and required to attend an anger-management course.”

…they ganged up on him. Skinny little latte drinking a-wipes had to form a gang. That’s how libs operate.

[cnsmom]

Obama finally gets a legacy.

[knarf]

Straight to the public school system.

You can't fix stupid . . . . . . . parents that made the same stupid kids.

But you CAN fix any government sanctioned or supported program or system to eliminate whatever enforces or enhances that stupidity.

You can't stop people from making babies, it's gonn'a happen to the good, the bad and the ugly.

AFTER that child is born, it becomes in part, society's responsibility to protect itself . . . . that's what morality and morals are all about.

[coloradan]

If only Washington DC had reasonable, modest gun control, then this couldn’t have happened.

[If You Want It Fixed - Fix It]

Arm yourself. Everywhere. We are Brazil. Especially Jews.

The body bag fillers arrived fast, 10 minutes!!!

[flamberge]

Where We Go From Here?

More of the same.

This is the "new normal". It is a lot like the "old awful".

Assassination of political opponents replaces other forms of argument because it is effective in the short-term. That will escalate as the Leftists continue to advocate for it. It will stop when a Right-Wing government crushes the Leftists.

Will a Rightist government run by "our guys" assassinate political opponents? They might. There is always a danger, when fighting monsters, of becoming the monster one was fighting. But one cannot resist force other than by counterforce. A posture of "Moral Superiority" and clever arguments are not sufficient.

It is not an easy problem to solve.