Douglas Murray: DC killings show how Americans are being incited to kill Jews by anti-Israel propaganda
On Wednesday afternoon, Yaron Lischinsky was trying, as always, to fight lies.
On social media he could be found pushing back against just one of the many big lies spread every day about the Jewish state.
Specifically he was commenting on the UN Report which garnered headlines around the world.
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5 Yaron Lischinsky and Sarah Lynn Milgrim, who were shot and killed as they left an event at the Capital Jewish Museum, pose for a picture at an unknown location.
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This was a completely lying, untrue report from one Tom Fletcher (UN under-secretary-general for humanitarian affairs) that 14,000 Gazan babies were likely to die in the next 48 hours unless aid reached them.
Mr. Fletcher's claim ignored every reality on the ground.
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That reality includes the fact that when aid trucks — including UN aid trucks — enter Gaza they tend to be hijacked by Hamas, who then use the aid for their terrorists or sell it at a hiked-up rate to the Gazan citizens it is meant for.
'Reputable' news organizations like the BBC spread the lie around the world.
For days they have been ramping up their coverage of Gaza. Always on a mission — a mission to claim that Gaza above any other story on earth needed to be the subject of media and international pressure.
The Jewish state was committing a 'genocide' many of these outlets claimed.
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On Wednesday the UN retracted its own report, but not until they had sent that brutal, brutal lie all over the world.
5 People hold signs and Israeli national flags in a sign of support outside the Capital Jewish Museum following a shooting that left two people dead, in Washington, DC, on May 22, 2025.
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I wonder what radical left media think will happen when they act as Hamas's propaganda outlets? Clearly they are trying to radicalize their readers.
And it works.
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On Wednesday evening, Yaron Lischinsky was with his girlfriend Sarah Milgrim and other attendees at an event in Washington DC's Capital Jewish Museum.
The couple happened to be staffers at the Israeli Embassy in Washington, but the gunman wouldn't have known that.
5 A woman holds an Israeli national flag in a sign of support outside the Capital Jewish Museum following a shooting that left two people dead, in Washington, DC, on May 22, 2025.
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Elias Rodriguez, 31, had hidden a gun outside the event and simply wanted to kill Jews.
'Free, free Palestine' he said as he whipped out his terrorist keffiyeh scarf and shot them.
It was a chant he repeated minutes later when he was arrested.
As a result of his actions, two beautiful young lives have been ended in an assassination-style killing on the streets of the US capital.
5 Interim US Attorney Jeanine Pirro (C) speaks during a press update on a shooting the night before, of two Israeli embassy staffers, at the US Department of Justice in Washington, DC, on May 22, 2025.
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Rodriguez is associated with the far-left Party for Socialism and Liberation (PSL).
Presumably Rodriguez believed the lies that have been pumped around this country and the world. Presumably he was one of those people who actually believe that Israel has been committing a 'genocide' in Gaza since October 2023, as opposed to fighting a careful war intended to bring home the remaining Israeli hostages being held by Hamas and capturing or killing the terrorist group's leadership.
If he did believe these things then he is not alone.
Indeed, as The Post revealed yesterday, even in this city such chants and such hatred are routine.
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5 A woman holds flowers and an Israeli national flag in a sign of support outside the Capital Jewish Museum following a shooting that left two people dead, in Washington, DC, on May 22, 2025.
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The same day that Rodriguez ended two young lives, students at Columbia University's graduation also chanted that inane and ignorant chant of 'Free, free Palestine.'
They did so even as their cowardly acting president Claire Shipman tried to placate the mob.
'I know many in our community are mourning the absence of our graduate, Mahmoud Khalil,' she said, referring to the Columbia protest leader who has spent the past two years trying to halt normal life on Columbia's campus amid a claim that Columbia is somehow involved in the 'genocide' in Gaza.
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Khalil is now the left's great free-speech martyr, but he is a hard person to miss.
His idiot radical group (Columbia University Apartheid Divest) called the October 7th massacres 'a moral, military, and political victory' and states that it is 'fighting for the total eradication of Western civilization.'
One of the people to graduate Columbia on Wednesday was Mohsen Madawi, who for the past 19 months has led students in chants to 'globalize the intifada.'
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What did such groups and such individuals think about the consequences of their actions?
When they chanted to 'globalize the intifada' they meant exactly what Rodriguez did.
They meant — and they mean — that the targeting of Jews by acts of terror should be brought from the Middle East here to America.
For the past year and a half many people — Jewish and non-Jewish — have warned about the escalation in anti-Jewish and anti-Israel activism in this country.
We have warned about the radical leftist groups — and the radical right-wing commentators — who have had a field-day appealing to the most base human bigotries.
When these people were accused of 'blood libels' many of them decided to look into the claim and then tell their followers that Jews were in fact busily killing and using the blood of Christian children in the Middle Ages.
When people said that they sounded like they were celebrating a death cult they showed that they were proud of it.
The streets of DC, like the streets of this city, have resounded for 19 months to chants calling for the annihilation of the Jewish State and the killing of Jewish people.
It was allowed to go on despite the fact that no similar incitement would ever be allowed in this country against any other group.
Rodriguez does not appear to be a radical Muslim.
He is someone who has been radicalized in America by radical left groups that believe that killing Jews makes them ethical people.
Now radical groups in this country — often backed by Iran and Qatar — are praising him.
One regime papers in Qatar has already called for 'A few more [people] like Rodriguez'
Yaron Lischinsky and Sarah Milgrim spent their last day on earth trying to fight the lies and the hate.
They loved this country and said so often.
Whether America sides with the victims of this heinous act or with the culprit will tell us a lot about where America, as a society, goes next.
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