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Two Israeli Embassy staff members were shot and killed during an event at the Capital Jewish Museum in Washington, D.C., on Wednesday night, authorities confirmed.

Tal Naim Cohen, a spokesperson for the Israeli embassy in the capital, confirmed to Fox News that two diplomats were shot "at close range" during a Jewish event at the museum. The American Jewish Committee confirmed it was hosting the event in a post on X.

"We have full faith in law enforcement authorities on both the local and federal levels to apprehend the shooter and protect Israel’s representatives and Jewish communities throughout the United States," Cohen said.

Fox News confirmed a man and a woman were both killed in the shooting. Further details on their identities were not immediately available.

Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem said DHS is "actively investigating" the incident and "working to get more information to share."

"Please pray for the families of the victims. We will bring this depraved perpetrator to justice," Noem wrote on X.

The Metropolitan Police Department said a shooting investigation was underway near 3rd Street and F Street Northwest, which is where the Capital Jewish Museum is located.

Danny Danon, Israel's Ambassador to the United Nations, said an event was taking place at the museum and the deadly shooting was a "depraved act of anti-Semitic(sic) terrorism" in a statement posted to X late Wednesday night.

"Harming diplomats and the Jewish community is crossing a red line. We are confident that the US authorities will take strong action against those responsible for this criminal act. Israel will continue to act resolutely to protect its citizens and representatives – everywhere in the world," he wrote.


Fox News Digital has reached out to DC police, the Israeli embassy and the Capital Jewish Museum.

 

[quaawaa]

Shooter's manifesto:

Spoiler: Journalist's Introduction

The Israel Embassy Shooter Manifesto​

900-word document cites Gaza as motive​

Ken Klippenstein
May 22, 2025


Scene outside the Capital Jewish Museum after shooting | Getty

I’ve obtained the alleged manifesto written by Elias Rodriguez, suspect in the killing of two Israeli Embassy staffers in Washington, DC on Wednesday.

I believe the document to be authentic for several reasons, including the fact that it is signed by Rodriguez and timestamped well before he was named by law enforcement or any media. I am publishing it here not to glorify the violence — which I find abhorrent and condemn — but so the public can better understand the truth of what happened.

Refusing to confront the content of these texts often creates an information vacuum that is quickly filled by hoax documents, conspiracy theories, or selective leaks from authorities that can distort the facts. I believe that sunlight is the best disinfectant, especially when politics is involved, as the document makes clear is the case here.

Metropolitan Police Chief Pamela A. Smith identified Rodriguez as a 30-year-old man from Chicago who she said shouted “Free Palestine!” at the scene. The manifesto echoes this message, citing the war in Gaza as its central grievance and framing the killings as an act of political protest.

Below is the document in full.

Explication

May 20, 2025

Halintar is a word that means something like thunder or lightning. In the wake of an act people look for a text to fix its meaning, so here's an attempt. The atrocities committed by Israelis against Palestine defy description and defy quantification. Instead of reading descriptions mostly we watch them unfold on video, sometimes live. After a few months of rapidly mounting death tolls Israel had obliterated the capacity to even continue counting the dead, which has served its genocide well. At time of writing the Gaza health ministry records 53,000 killed by traumatic force, at least ten thousand lie under rubble, and who knows how many thousands more dead of preventable disease, hunger, with tens of thousands now at risk of imminent famine due to Israeli blockade, all enabled by Western and Arab government complicity. The Gaza information office includes the ten thousand under the rubble with the dead in their own count. In news reports there have been those "ten thousand" under the rubble for months now, despite the continual making of more rubble and repeated bombing of rubble again and again and the bombing of tents amid the rubble. Like the Yemen death toll which had been frozen at some few thousand for years under Saudi-UK-US bombardment before being belatedly revealed to stand at 500k dead, all of these figures are almost surely a criminal undercount. I have no trouble believing the estimates that put the toll at 100,000 or more. More have been murdered since March of this year than in "Protective Edge" and "Cast Lead" put together. What more at this point can one say about the proportion of mangled and burned and exploded human beings whom were children. We who let this happen will never deserve the Palestinians' forgiveness. They've let us know as much.

An armed action is not necessarily a military action. It usually is not. Usually it is theater and spectacle, a quality it shares with many unarmed actions. Nonviolent protest in the opening weeks of the genocide seemed to signal some sort of turning point. Never before had so many tens of thousands joined the Palestinians in the streets across the West. Never before had so many American politicians been forced to concede that, rhetorically at least, the Palestinians were human beings, too. But thus far the rhetoric has not amounted to much. The Israelis themselves boast about their own shock at the free hand the Americans have given them to exterminate the Palestinians. Public opinion has shifted against the genocidal apartheid state, and the American government has simply shrugged, they'll do without public opinion then, criminalize it where they can, suffocate it with bland reassurances that they're doing all they can to restrain Israel where it cannot criminalize protest outright. Aaron Bushnell and others sacrificed themselves in the hopes of stopping the massacre and the state works to make us feel their sacrifice was made in vain, that there is no hope in escalating for Gaza and no point in bringing the war home. We can't let them succeed. Their sacrifices were not made in vain.

The impunity that representatives of our government feel at abetting this slaughter should be revealed as an illusion, then. The impunity we see is the worst for those of us in immediate proximity to the genocidaires. A surgeon who treated victims of the Mayan genocide by the Guatemalan state recounts an instance in which he was operating on a patient who'd been critically injured during a massacre when, suddenly, armed gunmen entered the room and shot the patient to death on his operating table, laughing as they killed him. The physician said the worst part was seeing the killers, well known to him, openly swagger down local streets in the years after.

Elsewhere a man of conscience once attempted to throw Robert McNamara off a Martha's Vineyard-bound ferry into the sea, incensed at the same impunity and arrogance he saw in that butcher of Vietnam as he sat in the ferry's lounge laughing with friends. The man took issue with McNamara's "very posture, telling you, 'My history is fine, and I can be slumped over a bar like this with my good friend Ralph here and you'll have to lump it.'" The man did not succeed in heaving McNamara off a catwalk into the water, the former secretary of state managed to cling to the railing and clamber back to his feet, but the assailant explicated the value of the attempt by saying "Well, I got him outside, just the two of us, and suddenly his history wasn't so fine, was it?"

A word about the morality of armed demonstration. Those of us against the genocide take satisfaction in arguing that the perpetrators and abettors have forfeited their humanity. I sympathize with this viewpoint and understand its value in soothing the psyche which cannot bear to accept the atrocities it witnesses, even mediated through the screen. But inhumanity has long since shown itself to be shockingly common, mundane, prosaically human. A perpetrator may then be a loving parent, a filial child, a generous and charitable friend, an amiable stranger, capable of moral strength at times when it suits him and sometimes even when it does not, and yet be a monster all the same. Humanity doesn't exempt one from accountability. The action would have been morally justified taken 11 years ago during Protective Edge, around the time I personally became acutely aware of our brutal conduct in Palestine. But I think to most Americans such an action would have been illegible, would seem insane. I am glad that today at least there are many Americans for which the action will be highly legible and, in some funny way, the only sane thing to do.

I love you Mom, Dad, baby sis, the rest of my familia, including you, O*****

Free Palestine

-Elias Rodriguez

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[Twix Eatr]

You're right, no government has ever allowed a terrorist attack to happen so they have an excuse to fuck another country up.

EDIT: I'll spare you a response: I'm not saying Israel let 10/7 happen, I'm saying you can't ignore the possibility when Military Industrial Complex warmongers are involved.

No, there's not credible evidence of something like this. It doesn't make any sense, either. Only to conspiracy-minded fools with zero critical thinking skills. Firstly, they didn't need to let anything happen. The constant barrage of rocket attacks and suicide bombings are more than enough. Second, they defend themselves and the world screams "genocide!" Even now, idiots are acting as they murdered their own people on a large scale. It's absurd and without evidence.

Israel isn't like the U.S., dude. They're a tiny ass country. This idea they're all itching for war is fucking nonsensical. They have mandatory military service. Going to war isn't like when America does it, where we won't have a draft and it's just some other person going. WE are itching to use equipment and play the long-term game for some benefit. They're sending their friends, family members, brothers, sisters, etc. It's absolutely not some fun, easy decision they want to happen. And there's zero evidence they let themselves get attacked on 10/7. It's just absurd.

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If this is real, what a fucking loser lmao

The PSL is denying they were involved with the shooting.
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Its makes sense considering they're not suppose to commit this type of "propaganda of the deed" anarchist violence. But awkwardly, they're in a bit of a pickle because their rhetoric normalizes it, and communists must choose violence eventually as per their doctrine. It'll be interesting to see how they handle stuff like this.

Not that it's definitive, but I'd scraped the likes of like 5-10 of their posts to search for any linkable Instagram accounts and found nothing on him.

 

[dabila]

"there were intelligence reports that were ignored so obviously israel wanted it to happen"
"yes Hamas killed hundreds of israelis and massacred a concert full of ravers but the IDF probably killed some Israelis in the crossfire so it doesn't matter"

you are brown, either physically or spiritually.

Hamas had to break through the highly militarized barrier and attack multiple military bases before they could reach civilian areas with large amounts of militants. All while their attack plans had been telegraphed months in advance. Your other jew friend likes occams razor. Occams razor says israel let the attack happen so they could begin the big regional war they have always wanted.

Why is israel constantly trying to expand the conflict if they don't want war? Did they bomb an Iranian embassy in Syria as a step towards achieving peace or a step towards expanding the war. They want war, as long as they have US assurances that they will come to their aid. There's more than enough evidence to say that.

Anyways if you think 10/7 justifies what is happening now in gaza, what israel did in Lebanon in the 80s earned israel a second holocaust.

 

[Justice Tony]

Yep, here's a Tweet from one of said friends referring to him as a Christian. If that's the case, I believe it's likely he was a member of one of those 'Christian Zionist' Evangelical churches (as he's working directly for the Israeli embassy, and they are by far the most pro-Israel Christian sect in the US) and that his Jewishness came from one or both of his parents' sides, since to my knowledge Israel doesn't allow converts to make aliyah - but it does allow Christians with Jewish grandparents (IIRC) to do so - and his LinkedIn (posted earlier in the thread) says he did make the trip.

Protestant? Ok yeah God have mercy on him. It's always the fucking Protestants who do this shit.

 

[mister fireworks]

thank GOD israel is blocking food aid from coming into gaza right now or this retard would have given them a whole news cycle of kvetching. Also bad timing for this story to follow on the heels of the video of the IDF shooting warning shots in the direction of diplomats LMAO.

Can't wait to see it all play out but I'm thinkin and hopin that literally nobody will give a fuck and even the establishment media wont be able to use this story to spin sympathy for israel or slow the rapid descent of American support of them. Every dead palestinian kid is one step closer to the end of our very special relationship with Kike inc.

 

[CharlesBarkley]

Your other jew friend likes occams razor. Occams razor says israel let the attack happen so they could begin the big regional war they have always wanted.

To be fair, if I was in Israel as a master military genius or whatever and someone told me “Uh, sir, we have info that Hamas is going to attack a rave filled with global teens dancing for world peace or something gay like that.” My reaction would be “lol no, that’s way too retarded.”

 

[Frederica Bernkastel]

One thing to note about the PSL they are HORRIBLE when it comes to OPsec. They don't even encrypt their communications, so, law enforcement will have a hell of a discovery case. Its guaranteed its filled with informants.

 

[Catch The Rainbow]

Occams razor says israel let the attack happen so they could begin the big regional war they have always wanted.

except israeli policy in gaza from 21-23 was to loosen restrictions on gaza to improve the gazan economy because they thought violent jihadists wanted a more stable gaza

the whole reason why there were less soldiers on the border of gaza on oct 7th was because they were deployed to the west bank to suppress an uprising there

Why is israel constantly trying to expand the conflict if they don't want war? Did they bomb an Iranian embassy in Syria as a step towards achieving peace or a step towards expanding the war.

they bombed the embassy because the coordinator of giving iranian arms to hezbollah was there, it was a legitimate target.

also lmao "israel tried to expand the conflict", Hezbollah attacked Israel first, so did the Iraqi militias and Yemen. they expanded it themselves

Anyways if you think 10/7 justifies what is happening now in gaza, what israel did in Lebanon in the 80s earned israel a second holocaust.

brownoid confirmed. we neutered hezbollah and gassed nasrallah to death, choke on it

thank GOD israel is blocking food aid from coming into gaza right now

food aid is entering gaza, UN is refusing to distribute it for whatever reason

To be fair, if I was in Israel as a master military genius or whatever and someone told me “Uh, sir, we have info that Hamas is going to attack a rave filled with global teens dancing for world peace or something gay like that.” My reaction would be “lol no, that’s way too retarded.”

the problem is that the IDF was too entrenched in the idea that hamas were rational actors and any dissent was ignored.

 

[Blewberry Nausea]

Apparently someone got shot trying to cause a happening at the CIA. Related?

https://www.cnbc.com/2025/05/22/cia-shooting-headquarters.html

 

[Potion_Time]

Every dead palestinian kid is one step closer to the end of our very special relationship with Kike inc.

It really is a win/win.

Just look at jewish twitter right now. People like Rob Portnoy are claiming that jews are being targeted for being jews and not because their ethnostate is currently committing a genocide against its neighbors while importing third world shit skins into White nations.

 

[Frederica Bernkastel]

Apparently someone got shot trying to cause a happening at the CIA. Related?

I'd be shocked if they were that dumb lol.
PSL members attacking the Israelis AND the CIA at the same time? The organization has a death wish.

 

[Ted's Cabin]

the whole reason why there were less soldiers on the border of gaza on oct 7th was because they were deployed to the west bank to suppress an uprising there

Or more likely, the Israeli government got a credible tip that Muslims were planning on flying their Professor Layton machines across the border and intentionally let it happen as a pretext for total war. If you consider it from the point of view of their government being able to exercise its power to do what it wants to do and set aside morality, it's a complete victory for them. If it sounds too crazy think of how convenient pearl harbor or 9/11 was for burgerland.

 

[Blewberry Nausea]

I'd be shocked if they were that dumb lol.
PSL members attacking the Israelis AND the CIA at the same time? The organization has a death wish.

The only person I found with the same name living around DC and the same age is a blonde thot that doesn’t seem very political at all. Maybe she was just drunk and belligerent?

https://www.facebook.com/monia.spadaro.3/

https://www.tiktok.com/@moniaspadaro

 

[Twix Eatr]

from the twitter account of the shooter:

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from Yaron:

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Sarah Milgrim, who was murdered by the pro-Palestine terrorist, was a volunteer in an organization that advocates for peace between Israelis and Palestinians.

 

[Frederica Bernkastel]

Its so easy to groom people into throwing their lives away.

 

[Catch The Rainbow]

pretext for total war. If you consider it from the point of view of their government being able to exercise its power to do what it wants to do and set aside morality, it's a complete victory for them.

no because netanyahus entire reputation up to that point was mr. security, there was too much for him to lose personally to allow this to happen. This sounds plausible to people who have no idea how Israeli politics works

 

[Verdun_Salient]

If it sounds too crazy think of how convenient pearl harbor or 9/11 was for burgerland.

I find the Pearl Harbor part kind of odd, if they knew what the attack was gonna be, (knowing that someone plans to attack and what the attack plan actually is are two different things), wouldn't the US have tried to save its battleships, which it thought back then were tje main component of a fleet and not carriers?

Otherwise, it feels like letting the attack happen would be a little excessive, if you know what their plans are, and are able to stop them, you'd still probably be able get your war.

 

[mister fireworks]

food aid is entering gaza, UN is refusing to distribute it for whatever reaso

What time did israel open the blockade yesterday? Was that even reported before he shot them? Doesn't even matter if they get the aid now from a geopolitical diplomacy perspective. Everyone all over the world already knows they blocked food aid for months LOL.

The timing of this is really close to perfect because the reporting for both the aid being finally let in and the shooting are concurrent and coming after a week of the world watching closely as Israel destroys every remaining ounce of goodwill in 4k in Gaza.

 

[GilaCutter]

Niggers on this thread acting like the side they pick is morally correct. One side worships a pedophile, drives trucks into Christmas markets and sets up rape enclaves in White countries. The other side subverts the established culture and demographics, pollutes the mind of the youth and floods your countries with savages that can't shit in a toilet.

The sooner they both wipe each other out the better.

I forget where I saw it but someone used the phrase "bronze age grievances" and I keep thinking about it.

 

[dabila]

except israeli policy in gaza from 21-23 was to loosen restrictions on gaza to improve the gazan economy because they thought violent jihadists wanted a more stable gaza

the whole reason why there were less soldiers on the border of gaza on oct 7th was because they were deployed to the west bank to suppress an uprising there

they bombed the embassy because the coordinator of giving iranian arms to hezbollah was there, it was a legitimate target.

also lmao "israel tried to expand the conflict", Hezbollah attacked Israel first, so did the Iraqi militias and Yemen. they expanded it themselves

brownoid confirmed. we neutered hezbollah and gassed nasrallah to death, choke on it

Ya loosen restrictions on gaza meanwhile they barely even had access to fish off their shore. The goal of Israeli policies on gaza was to isolate them from the west bank and to make them wholly dependant on Israel for survival, so Israel could disconnect the plug when the time was right.

An embassy from which no attacks are being launched is never a legitimate target under international law. The only justification to attack it is if you want to expand the war, which is what Israel wanted. The existence of a general in the embassy doesn't change anything, retard.

Attacking the Iranian embassy is markedly different than attacking hezbollah and other militias, don't you think? It had the potential of expanding the war... to another regional country.

"He mentioned sabra and shatila, which proved my jew friend wrong when he said jews don't target civilians, so he must be Lebanese"