The shooting took place late Wednesday outside the Capital Jewish Museum, which was hosting an American Jewish Committee event at the time of the incident.
US Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem announced the deaths in an X post, saying, “We are actively investigating and working to get more information to share.”
The suspect, identified as 30-year-old Elias Rodriquez of Chicago, Illinois, “chanted 'Free, free Palestine,’ while in custody,” she added.
I don’t necessarily believe that civilians are legitimate targets, but these two men, the government they served, and the government of the country they were killed in, are all extremely firm believers that they are.
This is HORRIBLE! Doesn’t he know you’re ONLY allowed to Murder CHILDREN and BABIES otherwise you’re ANTI SEMETIC!
I know it makes me a terrible person. But I have trouble coming up with any response to this except “good. The time for bullshit words is over”
They were judged under the standard they themselves espoused.
They were very pro Trump. The kind of Israelis that celebrate the genocide.
Weak ass k/d ratio.
And to think, there are people around here who accuse me of not being a “real” leftist. Who but a leftist would post a page from from a webcomic that’s 90% text? Checkmate libs.
Any one who accuses some one else of not being a real leftist is probably a fed
AI summary:
The excerpt from the graphic novel appears to express a deep moral conflict about judging the actions of others in high-stakes, life-and-death situations. The character, Alison, is reflecting on how her past idealism and desire for perfect solutions don’t align with the messy, imperfect, and often desperate realities others face. She questions whether her criticism of others—such as Moonshadow, who uses violence for what she sees as justice—is truly about right and wrong, or about asserting her own moral authority.
In the context of a political assassination, this excerpt could be interpreted as a meditation on the complexity of moral judgment in violent political acts. It does not condone violence but challenges the reader to understand the motivations behind desperate actions without reducing them to simple binaries of right or wrong. It critiques moral absolutism and invites reflection on privilege, urgency, and the cost of demanding perfect solutions from those in crisis.
That said, the message is highly nuanced and can be interpreted differently depending on one’s perspective. It’s crucial to approach such discussions with sensitivity, especially when they involve real-world violence and loss of life.
Yuck
Cope
“I am fighting an enemy squad who is known for beheading children, but I don’t know which one of them slits throats, so I chose to simply not shoot any of them”
The man who got shot had an active Twitter account. Very stand-up guy. Such a shame he got killed.
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I mean he’s still a civilian and it it’s still murder but yeah hard to feel sad about it
He served in the IDF for three years before his current role. Now he worked diplomatically for the Apartheid to aid in ethnically cleansing all Palestinians.
It is truly terrible that this person who dedicated his life to dispossessing and murdering Palestinians was killed.
Literally the opposite of what I said. How do you go from ‘hard to feel sad about it’ to ‘ it’s truly terrible’?
Sounds like you struggle to read.
May I suggest your local library and some Goosebumps books to get you started? Work your way up from there.
Hey Goosebumps are great
Well he was but a simple innocent civilian enthousiastically participating in the genocide if all Palestinians. Killing such an innocent person is inexcusable.
? Who said he was innocent
Was he a civilian who was murdered or was he an active participant in a brutal mass murder of Palestinian women children and men, covered by countries which are participants in the genocide?
Anyways, the second amendment exists to combat tyranny.
He is by definition a civilian that was murdered. Legal definitions do not care about our political opinions. It appears to be very likely he was a civilian who deserved to be murdered but that does not change the definition
Anyways, the second amendment exists to combat tyranny.
Just want to step in here and say that no interpretation of the second would cover a civilian killing a foreign diplomat, no matter how tyrannical 😂
“You don’t understand, the people working on the Death Star just had a job to do and to follow its orders. It’s not any one of their fault that it blew up planets. RIP the brave workers on the Death Star I and Death Star II.”
Good point, and a perfect centrist take (not that I’m accusing you of being centrist). They should have a centrist viewing and commentary of the whole star wars series. Like mystery science theatre 3000.
Do you struggle with understanding sarcasm through text?
Won’t find me weeping for an active defender of genocide being put in the cemetary.
a innocent fella, such a tragedy 😔 anyways…
Adventurism sets back this movement of ours. This is what a revolutionary spirit without theory to back it up does. ADL is already using this as casus belli to silence pro-Palestine voices. CIA and Mossad are popping champagne bottles as we speak. And all they lost were two ultimately expendable Zionist bureaucrats. This is a fucking disaster.
From where has it been set back?
At the most immediate level, law enforcement presence will be increased in the DC area. Indirectly, this will further propagate the rhetoric of the Israeli state that antizionism is antisemitism. They’re already trying to spin this guy as a raging antisemite.
Not an answer to the question I asked.
so the solution is doing nothing instead? because they are already cracking down on (and ignoring) peaceful protests.
and while i don’t believe in adventurism either: their violence is their fault, not ours.
Let me give you a hypothetical. Imagine that these murders happened just as they did. But now imagine that Palestine was not brought up. The guy just stayed silent. The 2 Zionists are dead all the same, but there is plausible deniability that this was not done in the name of Palestine. Like I’m saying, there is a more effective way to crash out, if you are going to crash out. Furthermore, you shouldn’t be crashing out on an individual level! When will we have it sink in that there is no individual solution to systemic issues? Organize!
Learn from your enemy. Many Israeli officials still claim to this day is denying the genocide. It’s not because they think you’ll believe it. It’s about plausible deniability.
still a net positive.
The death of 2 shitbags comes at the inconvenience of many more revolutionary voices. I predict it will not be. Because this was not a revolutionary act. This was adventurism.
not really. these revolutionary voices will be (and are) silenced anyway as soon as they represent any danger. the palestine thing is incidentally a great example.
adventurism won’t save us, but it isnt hurting in this case. small net positive.
That is very much not what you were asked
It would be if mass repression was not already in place from peaceful nonviolent protests.
Cause and effect are being swapped around.
You think there’s no other place to go from here? Foreign uni students that have pro-Palestinian sentiments are easy targets for the fascist government. Wait until they start going after pro-Palestinian nationals on the grounds of being supportive of domestic terrorism. Why make it easy for them?
This already happened. The entire constitution has been put in the trash can before anyone got shot.
Wrong. You still have the first amendment. A privilege that the entire political spectrum of the US is a fan of. There is however an exemption to the first amendment. That is incitement. You are all making a case for the fascist government to portray pro-Palestinian sentiment as calls for violence.
Let me make it perfectly clear. The 2 that were smoked have a direct hand in the progress of the Zionist project. I have no love for them. But if you’re going to crash out, please crash out responsibly.
First amendment has been canceled for over 2 months. I’m sure this will be a new fan favorite excuse for repression. But looking at it realistically, besides a new excuse the actions will be the exact same.
I’m very conflicted on this. On the one hand, it is a good thing when genocide collaborators die, that’s two less to worry about, but on the other, this could serve as a catalyst for further Zionist crackdowns on free speech.
I understand the catch 22 of it. But they are already doing crackdowns, and even without this, they have already planned more crackdowns. So it means that being afraid/concerned about potential crackdowns only really helps the Zionists/fascists. Just like the Dems always being concerned about how the Republicans will react makes them not actually accomplish anything ever. Never bothered to force things like Roe v Wade into official law when they had chances and just kept it as just an up in the air thing. There are very much times and places for trying “good faith” efforts. But they mean nothing and get stomped on if you already know the other side is “bad faith” only.
They were already cracking down. Did you forget what happened to the student protests?
Of course I haven’t, that’s what I’m referring to when I say further crackdowns. But cracking down is not a binary, and I think the cracking down worsening on account of these murders is a legitimate worry to have.
They were going to crackdown anyway. There is no form of effective resistance to Israel that they would not respond to with escalating violence
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Good. Hopeful more happens to zionist scum in the future.
They need to be afraid to walk the streets.
Murder does not help our cause.
Nah. It’s very easy to argue that murder is ethically wrong or unjustified but it certainly is effective.
What evidence is there that murder is effective in these circumstances?
That’s irony because I think bully’s are very afraid of getting hurt.
Yeah, what we need to do is ask them nicely. Like 500 times. Hold more peaceful marches. Keep marching and marching and getting beaten up by the police and never ever get any sanctions on Israel. That is surely going to achieve things.
2 less zionists doesn’t hurt.
Please don’t murder anyone! I know the state is enacting violence on you everyday, but PLEASE for the love of god don’t murder! Just take it please, sit still and take the violence. Let your mothers, fathers, neighbors, friends, sisters, and brothers be taken away by the state. Do nothing.
Because not murdering has really helped our cause. What a joke.
What do you mean “our”? like “second minute hour”?
Yeah. Prisoners, on the other hand…
In a just world they would be prosecuted by a proper legal body. When that is impossible then it become necessary to at least consider the need for vigilante justice.
That depends who and how often, as history has shown time and time again.
I don’t advocate murder, but saying it’s never effective is arguing with reality.
He didn’t say “it’s never effective”, just that it doesn’t help this cause. And he’s right.
Is he? It’s not obvious that he is.
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They will spin this off for anti semitism. Nothing to do with genocide in Palestine. Thank God for whoever invented the cameras in cell phone that we could see the massacre around the world. Imagine how bad it was before smart phones were invented.
