Two staff members at the Israeli Embassy in Washington, DC, were killed Wednesday night near the Capital Jewish Museum, Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem said.
“Two Israeli Embassy staff were senselessly killed tonight near the Jewish Museum in Washington DC,” Noem said in a post on X. “We are actively investigating and working to get more information to share.”
Two people believed to be connected to the Israeli Embassy in Washington, DC, were shot Wednesday night near the Capital Jewish Museum, according to a source familiar with the situation and a law enforcement source. Another law enforcement source told CNN that two people were killed.
DC Police said its investigating a shooting across the street from the FBI’s Washington Field Office, which is located near the museum. The Israeli embassy is working with law enforcement.
The Israeli ambassador was not involved in the incident and was not at the location when the shooting happened, an embassy spokesperson told CNN.
US Attorney General Pam Bondi said in a post on social media that she and acting US Attorney for DC Jeanine Pirro have arrived to the scene of the shooting outside the Capital Jewish Museum.
Ted Deutch, the CEO of the American Jewish Committee, said his organization was hosting an event at the museum on Wednesday evening.
“We are devastated that an unspeakable act of violence took place outside the venue,” he said in a statement. “At this moment, as we await more information from the police about exactly what transpired, our attention and our hearts are solely with those who were harmed and their families.”
Israel’s Ambassador to the UN Danny Danon reacted to media reports of the shooting on Wednesday, saying in a statement on X, “The fatal shooting that took place outside the event that took place at the Jewish Museum in Washington, DC – in which Israeli embassy employees were also injured – is a depraved act of anti-Semitic terrorism.”
Police are advising people to avoid the area in Northwest DC.
This is a developing story and will be updated.
My opinion is zionists are not going to be scared to be zionists because of one shooting which results in an overwhelming state response and likely passing laws to further protect them and criminalize any dissent. I mean this is the US, you're likely to be shot for doing nothing but being in the wrong place at the wrong time, one instance is kind of background noise when the targets are low level employees.
And if they are scared do you know what they do? They run to their colony, they run there and hide and proclaim loudly how unsafe they were as Jews outside it. Again it plays right into things. If this were replicated a dozen times like school shootings maybe but it still wouldn't influence US policy-makers when it's a bipartisan project, it wouldn't scare Microsoft and Google from assisting them because it doesn't target them, it wouldn't scare the leadership in the entity because they're safe and have police details when they travel. Which feeds into:
Not wrong. In that obvious symbols of power have more resonance. This was poorly done and I only hope against hopes this person has no relations to PSL, ANSWER, etc and wasn't a rabid watcher of say Hasan because anyone they can tie this to they will and they will move to crush them. They can designate PSL a terrorist organization, ANSWER the same, they can arrest Hasan or at least deplatform him and this isn't going to resonate. This isn't going to get a bunch of people to say "obviously they deserved it" like if it had been someone much more central.
I mean this is just about the worse target you could pick. The zionist advocacy orgs are more directly responsible and obvious in terms of public resonance, the lobbying firms, the tech enablers, etc.
I think this was an ill thought out act of despair, it was individualistic, not carefully and extensively planned. His distant association with PSL was unfortunate and reckless and they've been looking for a way to crack down on the orgs organizing the pro-Palestine stuff for a while and even a distant link will be enough if the zionists seize on it. At the very least this turns up the heat on PSL which is not okay.
I maintain you want to scare the zionists and intimidate them within the entity where it matters, to drive them back to their homes in Europe and the US and you want to target the enablers with BDS and direct action in the enabling states. Activists in the UK have shut down suppliers for weapons companies, weapons companies in the US are well guarded but acts against the operability and profitability of their suppliers may be possible. Same with tech company enablers, you shame the employees, you implore them to join, you make them feel bad, you disrupt their CEO appearances and shame them, you tie them publicly to genocide and tarnish their company names and images and create negative sentiment which creators pressure.