The shooting took place late Wednesday outside the Capital Jewish Museum, which was hosting an American Jewish Committee event at the time of the incident.
US Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem announced the deaths in an X post, saying, “We are actively investigating and working to get more information to share.”
The suspect, identified as 30-year-old Elias Rodriquez of Chicago, Illinois, “chanted 'Free, free Palestine,’ while in custody,” she added.
The staffers didn’t deserve to die.
Yes they did, and they were legitimate targets according to the standards they themselves espoused (as were their children and anyone living near to them.)
Counterpoint
They were cogs in the machine and no one forced them into that position. They got exactly what they deserved.
Well you better bone up on your necromancy while the rest of us get the crabs out
one served the IDF and continued to serve the goverment.
One of them was found on twitter rabidly defending this genocide. They work at the embassy. They’re defending this genocide as part of their job. They’re directly part of trying to erase this genocide.
So you think that only the people pulling the trigger deserve death but the people trying to cover it up don’t? That’s a remarkable viewpoint
Yes? They deserve to be held accountable but even in a fair legal system they would not face the death penalty while those actually directly participating in or ordering war crimes would.
The legal systems of both the US and Israel consider all government employees to be legitimate targets for summary execution, as they have demonstrated in Gaza.
Fair
Their family members and neighbors world also be considered legitimate targets for summary execution by Israel and the US, incidentally.
The brilliant legal systems of both countries involved here are currently trying to imprison everyone who doesn’t gleefully support the total annihilation of Palestine. This is the extremely predictable result of stomping out every single alternative way of opposing an ongoing genocide.
And like what do you think the appropriate consequence for aiding a genocide should be? Simple murderers and their accomplices often get life, so how does the math work out when it’s a few hundred thousand and the total destruction of an entire nation?
Clearly everyone here is illiterate lol
Great. So how long do we wait for said fair legal system to do this? Do we wait until after every single Palestinian has been brutally murdered or is that too soon for you. I’d also be curious if you can clearly define where said legal system exists and how it will go about prosecuting people like this.
Yeah they did lol. Thus always to Zionists
fuck off, you are sympathizing with fucking hitler’s staffers. shut your dumb ass up
These people did though!
The people that made the decision to kill them deserve to die.
You mean the Israeli government?
Or the ones who literally pulled the trigger
This just guarantees dropping nuclear bombs so long as it’s just the one guy who pressed the button who will go to court.
The inverse Nuremberg defence: “I was only giving orders”
Clean Reichstag theory dropped
I meant both lol if someone ordered to kill them and someone pulled the trigger then they both deserve to be held responsible.
Y’all are rabid in this post though.
Keep defending nazis weirdo
Lmao yeah okay, what part of the person who made the order and the person who pulled the trigger deserve to be held responsible makes it a defense for them?
Not all Israeli people are fucking bad. Just as not all American’s are Trump or support him. Now provide objective evidence that they personally committed atrocities, hold them responsible.
Saying they support said atrocities? That’s bad and I don’t support that shit but people don’t deserve to die because they’re misguided or say the wrong thing.
Now did saying a thing result in an atrocity or further one? Yeah hold them accountable and bring their asses to justice.
I’m not saying that I support or defend Nazi’s because I fucking hate nazi’s like Musk, Trump, & Netanyahu, I’m just saying that I believe in the rule of law and believe that everyone should have their day in court to be judged and held accountable.
I guess that makes me a Nazi defender, I’d say that it just makes anyone who thinks I’m wrong in believing people should be held accountable for their crimes and not just killed a radical extremist.
There is no evidence that Adolf Hitler ever personally executed anyone. Yet I do hold him accountable for the triggers getting pulled.
himmler never killed anyone. guess one of the most famously depraved evil nazis was actually innocent!
They are part and parcel of the genocidal apparatus. I have no sympathy at all for them.
You pay taxes? Then you too are part of the apparatus and deserve death by some even more radical’s reasoning.
If this single person stopped paying taxes, the US would still be funding the genocide.
Besides, their taxes don’t fund shit. The US government literally prints money at will and funds whatever it wants.
Do you work for the gov and served the IGF like the guy that got whacked? These werent random ass civilians.
There is a massive difference between your taxes going to support Israel’s genocide unwillingly, and voluntarily joining the genocide apparatus.
The government doesn’t take your taxes and use them to do X. That’s a misunderstanding of how taxes work.
Taxes are the state taking back their money. The money vanishes. If you’re getting oppressed by your state, its not your fault.
I agree, some people have little choice. Fortunately, I personally left America and no longer pay taxes so I don’t have to be part of that. Not everyone can do that.
People who actively join the government and support Israeli efforts should be held accountable. I also have no sympathy for ICE agents in the US either.
The government is not one entity.
People getting killed is obviously bad. But just to put this into perspective, how many people were killed in Gaza today? How many children? And yesterday, and the day before? Oh wait, we don’t even have a full count because the monsters also murder journalists.
You’re right they didn’t. Israel need to be seriously looking at the security they provide to their staff members.
When you become a genocidal terror state you have to accept that people around the world may try to reciprocate your violence against government officials.
They dont actually care that these people were killed. It gives them more credibility when they cry about antisemitism
“Their government is doing bad things” is not justification to kill someone.
Or do have a free pass to start gunning down every US and Chinese government employee now?
Oh my what a difficult moral dilemma, I wonder if there could ever be a good answer to it. Nope, I guess literal government employees are not at all responsible for what their government is doing.
Maybe Netanyahu and Gallant can go personally to the ICC to demand action on these extrajudicial killings if they’re so concerned with due process.
Go back to reddit
You would have whined about the resistance shooting Nazi officials.
They are part of the government that is committing genocide.
So everyone at the State Department is fair game because Trump is performing an ethnic cleansing over here?
Do you not understand how absurd this argument is?
Yeah, after Iraq and Afghanistan, and many other countries, I have very little sympathy for people working on foreign affairs with the US government. The US is not a force for good in this world.
You ever heard the saying “don’t blame children for the crimes of their parents” or something like that?
Nobody said anything about the employees children.
They are talking about the crimes of the employees.
Is that similar to the saying “don’t sign up to work for genocidal governments and expect to live a long and fulfilling life?”
If you think local governments or state governments are equivalent to the national one, you need a refresher.
I wouldn’t shed a single tear if Bush, Cheney and Rove were forced to answer for their crimes because they’re the ones responsible. The staffers? What’d they do that deserves death?
Getting back to Israel; all this did was create 2 more martyrs for Bibi. Doesn’t help the pro Palestinian cause one bit. Gives Trump yet another excuse to target every pro Palestinian in the US, citizen or not. And in case you haven’t seen it yet the mainstream media is running with the story of how they were a couple about to be engaged. So this is just going to be used to garner more sympathy for Israel and make a ceasefire all the more unlikely.
This accomplished nothing, and to call it justified is just utter nonsense.
Bush, Cheney, Rove, Rumsfeld, they don’t actually do anything. They order people around, but the ones doing the legwork are their staffers.
If the lives of people are less valuable to them than their own jobs, well, maybe their life ain’t worth shit either.
The staffers helped murder 5 million people.
It doesn’t hurt either, zionists are now gonna be looking over their shoulders when in public.
“We can’t fight back because then the people killing us will do the thing they’re already doing!”
First, I have no clue who deserves death or not. I just feel no sympathy for these lost lives. I won’t feel any sympathy or regret if more Israeli government officials die.
Israel and the US government paint campus protestors as terrorists. They are going to continue painting any resistance to the genocide as terrorism.
We have no idea what this accomplished. You sound like the compromising liberals MLK Jr criticized. Oh, we just have to protest a little more civilly next time and avoid inconveniencing people. If this strikes fear in Israeli officials, sounds like a win to me
Ya know, when the protest takes the form of murder, yeah I’ll go ahead and be one of those compromising liberals. We should be a little more civil than to murder people. That’s my line in the sand.
its a sensible take on these sort of matters but maybe not for israel. current israel is not only committing a genocide in plain view of the world but is also targeting any criticism against it with a very disgusting mo.
they have been killing journalists in gaza and westbank for decades so that idf brutality and murder of families by settlers has no evidence.
https://www.france24.com/en/culture/20250515-fatma-hassona-death-was-targeted-killing-gaza-film-director-sepideh-farsi-tells-cannes
they kill even pregnant women and children for fun not as some human shield or collateral
they specially target hospital, medics and doctors so the injured die painfully while their relatives watch helplessly. this is a level of planned evil that goes way beyond warcrime and genocide
they seem to be dictating narrative on every msm. even forums like reddit is completely crippled by their bots. just see the difference in voting pattern on world news from 2 years ago
they have complete control of our political system on both red and blue side. now we all know much the shameless scum biden did to restrain israel. current dnc chairman schumer has publicly said that his top priority is always to keep the left pro-israel.
peaceful protests not just in us but around the world have been targeted by them in violent ways. any criticism of genocide has resulted in immediate loss of employment for some of the most intelligent people working at google and microsoft.
israel was founded by people who butchered entire villages and raped little girls for days. since then settler movement has attracted people across the world who are proud of murdering a family and taking their home. they supply spyware and weapon to most violent dictators in the world.
i really don’t think there is a peaceful alternative to control something this evil and elaborate. this is not going to stop at gaza. the ultra rich who are mostly at the head of israeli lobby will use this very formula of violence and propaganda against the working class. to some extent its already started, we all saw how luigi is branded a terrorist for allegedly taking out a mass murderer and how anything positive related to him is suppressed everywhere. the ongoing ice raids.
How involved does one need to be to be complicit?
We can probably agree that the local embassy security staff didn’t have a hand in these atrocities, but do the intelligence officers staffed there? The schmoozers working to ensure unwavering US support? The ambassador himself?
Keeping in mind everyone’s interpretation of complicity is different, I agree this probably wasn’t the best move available, but I won’t criticize it further than that.
Everyone in a government position has served in the IGF. One of these dudes was on Twitter shit talking the ICC, claiming aid was being stolen by Hamas (and not Israel) and was shot at a conference regarding the aid blockade.
They absolutely were involved in the atrocities, it’s just a matter of degree.
At a certain point you’d hit something important so yah go off
https://xcancel.com/yaron_li
god plainly disagrees