Journalist and creator Batya Ungar-Sargon mentioned that the homicide suspect who gunned down two Israeli Embassy staffers in Washington, D.C. on Wednesday adopted comparable rhetoric as anti-Israel protesters on school campuses.
“He’s an outgrowth of the antisemitism on school campuses,” Ungar-Sargon mentioned Thursday of the alleged shooter whereas showing on CNN. “And the way are we not speaking about that? That’s the story. There’s a tradition of dehumanizing Jews that’s rampant on the left. No person desires to speak about it. They‘re not going to listen to us. We need people on the left to say this is unacceptable.”
The Embassy of Israel to the U.S. identified the victims shot in DC as Yaron Lischinsky and Sarah Milgrim, who were set to be engaged. A 31-year-old man identified as Elias Rodriguez, of Chicago, has been arrested and charged with the murders. Metropolitan Police Department Chief Pamela Smith said that the gun used by him was recovered.
TWO ISRAELI DIPLOMATS SHOT, KILLED DURING EVENT AT CAPITAL JEWISH MUSEUM IN WASHINGTON, DC
Batya Ungar-Sargon said the man suspected of murdering two Israeli Embassy staffers in Washington, D.C., on Wednesday used similar rhetoric as anti-Israel protesters on college campuses. (CNN)
“I think probably a lot of Jews watching this are feeling the way I‘m feeling, which is that I can‘t believe we‘re talking about this,” Ungar-Sargon continued, “rather than the fact that two people were murdered because the terrorist who killed them believed that they were Jews and was chanting the exact same thing that Jewish students have had to hear chanted at them for two years while he did that.”
The suspected killer chanted, “Free, free Palestine” as he was apprehended, a common refrain of anti-Israel protesters.
She described the alleged killer as someone “who wrote a manifesto that reads exactly like the kinds of op-eds that are written routinely on these college campuses, that the comments on that manifesto are all completely in support of him.”
WITNESS RECOUNTS CHILLING MOMENT DC JEWISH MUSEUM SHOOTER CONFESSED ‘I DID THIS FOR GAZA’
Yaron Lischinsky and Sarah Lynn Milgrim, who have been shot and killed as they left an occasion on the Capital Jewish Museum. (Embassy of Israel to the USA by way of X/Handout by way of REUTERS)
Rodriguez, 31, has been charged with the homicide of international officers, a federal capital offense, together with a number of firearm-related counts and two counts of first-degree homicide.
If convicted of both of the primary two counts, he might face the demise penalty. Underneath D.C. regulation, a conviction for first-degree homicide carries a minimal sentence of 30 years in jail and a most sentence of life behind bars.
Fox Information’ Elizabeth Pritchett contributed to this report.
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