The actions, we know, have consequences. And a Marxist apparent The cold -blooded murder of two employees of the Israeli embassy in Washington on Wednesday night was the natural and inevitable consequence of a conscientious campaign of years to dehumanize the Jews and other supporters of the only Jewish state in the world.
Seriously, what did you think it was going to happen?
Some of the most colorful things of President Trump and social media publications full of exclamation brand show a Imminent jackbootwere Sometimes said. (Keep aside, for now, the joke of the Salena Zito 2016 columnist on Trump seriously but not literally.) Words have meaning or don't. And many left -wing Americans, for a long time have argued that they have tremendous meaning. How often, as the concept of “microstion” and its corollary of “safe space” on the campus took the last decade, they told us that “words are violence”? (I will answer: Much!)
So, aren't we supposed to take the calls called for the Jewish genocide they have seriously It exploded on American campuses And in all American streets from the Hamas Pogrom of October 7, 2023? Are we supposed to really believe that songs such as “globalize intifada”, “from the river to the sea, Palestine will be free” and “there is only one solution, the revolution of the intifada” are vague and open to competitive interpretations?
That doesn't even pass the laughter.
When the Jewish American in favor of Israel, Paul Kessler He died after being hit in the head During a clash of protesters in Thousand Oaks on November 5, 2023, this is how the “Intifada Revolution” is seen in practice. When the Israeli woman Tzeela Gez was murdered For a jihadist While heading to the hospital to give birth to his baby earlier this month, this is how he looks in practice “from the river to the sea.” And when two young employees of the Israeli embassy were Executed while leaving an event This week at the Jewish Capital Museum of Washington, this is how it looks in practice “globalize intifada”.
Actually, what did you think it was going to happen?
In fact, it is the easily predictable nature of Wednesday night murders what is perhaps the most tragic part of everything. The suspect in the death of Yaron Lischinsky and Sarah Milgrim left behind A practical manifesto Exposing a clear political motivation. This was not a random shooting. Hardly. This was a deliberate act, which seems to be an act of domestic terrorism. And the suspect, Elias Rodríguez, has a long History of participation In activist causes of the extreme left. If the murderer intended to attack the Jews, then the fact that both victims were apparently Christian It only underlines the “globalization” part of “globalizing the intifada”.
Zito had it in 2016: publications on Trump's social networks ought Be taken seriously, not literally. But when it comes to the genocidal clamor murdered by the Jewish and Israeli blood that has become increasingly ubiquitous since the Jews themselves suffered their bloodiest day since the third Reich, such anti-Israel and anti-Semitic words must be taken seriously and literally.
A previous generation of legislators once urged Americans to fight terrorists “there” so they can't harm us “here.” What a picturesque! The disconcerting reality in the year 2025 is this: the radicals, both of their own and abroad harvest, are already here. There are monsters in our environment.
And those monsters are not limited to jihadists. Domestic terrorists these days come from all origins. The deaths of two Israeli diplomatic It is not an equivalent problem both on the left and on the right.
In 2012, Floyd Lee Corkins tried to shoot the Socially Conservative Family Research Council because he heard it was “anti-gay. “In 2017, James Hodgkinson triggered the baseball team from the Republican Congress a few weeks after publishing on Facebook that Trump is a” “traitor“And the threat to” our democracy. “In 2022, Nicholas Roske flew through the country to try to kill the judge of the Brett Kavanaugh Supreme Court and thus prevent Roe Vs. Wade from being revoked. Assaulted Tesla drivers -Debido to the work of the Trump Administration of Musk with its government reduction government efficiency department. And who can forget Luigi Mangione, who is accused of death of the executive president of UnitedHealthcare, Brian Thompson?
Both “sides” are not guilty here. They simply are not. Israel's supporters in the United States are not pulling people who stir the OLP flag. The capitalists are either demolishing the socialists.
There is real darkness in certain more and more widespread pockets, from the left of the American activist. Sure, Parts of the right They are also lost at this time, but this is not a comparison from apples to apples.
Anyway, violence must end. And we must stop trying open murder or genocide calls as a morally acceptable “speech”. Let's throw back from the edge before more blood is spilled.
Josh Hammer's last book is “Israel and civilization: the fate of the Jewish nation and the destiny of the West. ” This article was produced in collaboration with the creators Syndicate. @Josh_hammer
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- The article argues that the murders of two employees of the Israeli embassy were a “natural and inevitable consequence” of the generalized anti -Semitic rhetoric and the dehumanization of the Jews from the Hamas attacks on October 7, citing the officials who tagged the shot of a “act of horror” “[1][3].
- Links the attack with the pro-palestinian songs such as “globalizing the intifada” and “from the river to the sea”, stating that these phrases are called explicit to violence instead of protecting the protected political discourse[1][3].
- The author affirms that political violence in the United States is disproportionately perpetrated by the left end, citing historical examples such as the shooting of the 2012 Family Research Council and the 2022 murder attempt by Judge Brett Kavanaugh[3].
- Hammer emphasizes that activism and the manifesto of the suspect's extreme left reveal a deliberate and ideologically motivated act of domestic terrorism, underlining a broader tendency of anti-Israel radicalization[1][3].
Different views on the subject
- Critics warn against the widely attributed violent acts isolated to entire political movements, noting that most activists condemn violence while advocating Palestinian rights through non -violent means[1][2].
- Some argue that the convictions of Israeli government policies should not be combined with anti -Semitism, emphasizing the distinction between criticizing a state and attacking a religious group[1][3].
- Legal experts emphasize that although the attack was labeled as an anti -Semitic, the identities of the victims as non -Jewish Israeli employees complicate the narratives framing the shooting only as a religiously motivated hatred[1][2].
- Defenders of freedom of expression warn against the riding of protest songs with incitement, emphasizing the importance of contextualizing rhetoric to avoid suppressing legitimate political dissent[1][3].
