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.
Makes me wonder if the suspect was a patsy or fed.
Not ready to throw him under the bus just yet, propaganda of the deed might just be getting more popular as y'all's country circles the drain.
But it does feel like they could do some fuckery and try for RICO charges like they were planning on Pro-Palestine protest organizers.
A few years ago I put forward a theory on here that overtime it would not matter whether we do or do not support adventurism - it will happen.
Individuals carrying out acts of leftist violence is not something orgs can prevent. It's going to happen. It's going to happen more and more as revolutionary potential gets higher and higher. The higher revolutionary potential gets, the more it will occur.
Adventurism isn't something that needs to be shot down or something that can even be affected by opposing it. If we create conditions that make people revolutionary then some of the ones that aren't organised but are angry enough will act of their own accord.
Adventurism is a signal indicating revolutionary energy. The increase in adventurism is a demonstration of an increase in revolutionary energies. What matters is organising those energies without reducing them.
Well said
And, I will add, the principle mistake I see among orgs, ML and otherwise, has been to unintentionally take part in reducing revolutionary energy while opposing such acts.
It's very easy for people to get an unintended cooling off of revolutionary energy in the process of condemning or disavowing actions carried out by individuals or the strategies of other orgs. We've seen a number of revolutionary orgs soften into electoral orgs and even social-democracy over time, that's because of mistakes in nurturing and maintaining revolutionary energy.
A lot of times, the tut-tutting over adventurism comes off more as cowardice than any principled stance against adventurism as a strategy. There's a very big difference between Stalin who robbed banks saying adventurism isn't the way and a bunch of timid nerds in a book club saying adventurism isn't the way.
Adventurist acts reflect well on the willingness and courage of the people performing them. Adventurists should be seen as brave but not particularly strategic or even smart individuals. But forced between brave and dim people vs smart cowards, the brave and dim people are vastly more useful. If nothing else, brave and dim people can be trained to become brave and smart people through study of theory, but how do you cultivate bravery among cowards?
Apparently the museum is across the street from an FBI field office.
Then again, you probably can't throw a rock in D.C. without hitting a fed.