Two staff members at the Israeli embassy in Washington are shot dead near a Jewish museum.

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.

  • tflyghtz@lemm.ee
    739·
    22 hours ago

    You pay taxes? Then you too are part of the apparatus and deserve death by some even more radical’s reasoning.

    • 小莱卡@lemmygrad.mlEnglish
      15·
      17 hours ago

      Do you work for the gov and served the IGF like the guy that got whacked? These werent random ass civilians.

    • IndustryStandard@lemmy.world
      402·
      21 hours ago

      There is a massive difference between your taxes going to support Israel’s genocide unwillingly, and voluntarily joining the genocide apparatus.

    • IttihadChe@lemmy.mlEnglish
      13·
      19 hours ago

      The government doesn’t take your taxes and use them to do X. That’s a misunderstanding of how taxes work.

    • m532@lemmygrad.ml
      13·
      20 hours ago

      Taxes are the state taking back their money. The money vanishes. If you’re getting oppressed by your state, its not your fault.

    • machinin@lemmy.world
      202·
      22 hours ago

      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.