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A political assassination of Israeli diplomates would be bad enough, but this was simply an antisemitic attack by someone chanting “Free Palestine.” …
This is what Globalize the Intifada and similar rhetoric means, those who have apologizing for it, or worse justifying it, are morally culpable.
Ed: My similar thoughts can be found here.
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“THE REAL ENEMY”: @USAmbIsrael slams those who blame Israel and the United States instead of Hamas for the ongoing war in Gaza pic.twitter.com/6FETfspkpP
— FOX & Friends (@foxandfriends) May 22, 2025
Ed: Mike Huckabee hits the nail on the head. We should be mourning the loss of these two young people, but angry at the hatred that drove this attack and others. We should also make sure that the “ignorant, idiotic people” who promote and encourage this violence are held accountable as well.
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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said he ordered security to be increased at Israeli missions around the world and for the state’s representatives following the attack.
“We are witness to the terrible cost of the antisemitism and wild incitement against the State of Israel,” Netanyahu said. “Blood libels against Israel have a cost in blood and must be fought to the utmost.”
Ed: Definitely. But the problem is that it wasn’t fought at all in the US until the last few months. Academia and progressive DAs have created a sense of impunity among the radicals that has to be severely reversed in the days and weeks ahead to put an end to the intifada in the US.
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🚨Ilhan Omar just refused to offer ANY condolences for the two Israelis murdered in DC last night. pic.twitter.com/dvhQePMzXZ
— Townhall.com (@townhallcom) May 22, 2025
Ed: Ilhan Omar is a despicable embarrassment to Congress and to the few sane people in MN-05.
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Yaron Lischinsky and Sarah Lynn Milgram, two employees of the Israeli embassy in Washington, were murdered on Wednesday night at an American Jewish Congress conference in Washington, DC.
They were a couple who were about to get engaged, Israeli Ambassador to the US Yechiel Leiter said.
“He bought a ring and planned to propose to her in Jerusalem – a beautiful couple who came to spend an evening at Washington’s cultural center,” he said.
Ed: So utterly heartbreaking and senseless.
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BREAKING: The Bronx “Anti-War” Coalition just called Elias Rodriguez’s execution of two innocent people in D.C. the “highest expression of anti-Zionism.”
This group leads the pro-Palestinian rallies in NYC. Don’t ever try to tell me this movement isn’t fundamentally violent. pic.twitter.com/D7zzkHQHNx
— Eyal Yakoby (@EYakoby) May 22, 2025
Ed: Just in case anyone wonders what “anti-Zionism” actually means.
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Pro-Hamas groups and other Iran-backed trolls hailed the barbaric murder of two Israeli Embassy staffers at a Washington, DC, Jewish museum as a “heroic attack” — claiming it was a justified response to the war in Gaza.
The pro-Hamas Gaza Now media group celebrated suspect Elias Rodriguez, 31, as an ally against Zionism and welcomed the violent attack that killed soon-to-be-engaged couple Yaron Lischinsky, 28, and Sarah Milgrim, 26, the Middle East Media Research Institute reported.
Ed: These are the people who have been poisoning the minds of American college students — and not just for the last 19 months, but really for the last couple of decades.
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.@MaryMargOlohan: “Do you or President Trump have a message to politicians like Ilhan Omar, who this morning explicitly avoided condemning this act of terror?”@PressSec: “It’s despicable…the President has made it very clear that such hatred will have no place in our country.” pic.twitter.com/g9BXuhCqLh
— Daily Wire (@realDailyWire) May 22, 2025
Ed: Trump had better be clear on the consequences. And while he’s negotiating with Iran and engaging with Qatar, he’d better be clear where this evil originates too. This is a good response, but there needs to be real teeth behind it.
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The Israeli airstrike that targeted Hamas’s Gaza chief this month hit him as he attended a meeting of the group’s highest ranking militants, killing several important operatives and leaving a void in the top leadership of the U.S.-designated terrorist group, Hamas and Arab officials said.
The airstrike killed Mohammed Sinwar, who was quietly buried days later, along with other top militants including Mohammad Shabana, the commander of the group’s Rafah brigade, the officials said.
Ed: Apparently, Sinwar made the same mistake that Hassan Nasrallah did in Beirut — ignoring his own security protocols to meet with senior commanders while under fire. Sinwar died the same way Nasrallah did, too. The IDF probably would have preferred to seize the bodies of those commanders for verification, but they’ll be satisfied to get the confirmation from Hamas itself.
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I watched students at GW chanting “globalize the intifada,” saw Union Station defaced with warnings that “Hamas is coming,” and covered pro-terrorist takeovers of Capitol Hill.
I also watched the media and Democrat lawmakers explain away and inexplicably defend these scenes.
— Spencer Brown (@itsSpencerBrown) May 22, 2025
Ed: Again, my thoughts on that are here, and hardly limited to Harvard and Columbia.
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Referring to Israel as an “apartheid state” & blabbing for 18 months about GeNoCiDe has consequences
It’s amazing that libs think someone who “misgenders” a troon is committing verbal genocide but referring to a country as an apartheid state carries zero repercussions https://t.co/eJda77Mtpq
— kc2fargo (@kc2fargo) May 22, 2025
Ed: Via Twitchy. I would have embedded AOC’s tweet, but she may have deleted it after taking so much fire over it.
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The incident might have just disappeared from the news, like so many other videos of post-October 7 antisemitism on campus, if not for another shocking fact. The two aggressors who were the easiest to identify, because they were not wearing masks or hoodies and did not have keffiyehs around their faces, were not just Harvard students. They were also Harvard employees.
Ibrahim Bharmal was a Harvard Law School student and an editor at the Harvard Law Review. He was also a law-school teaching fellow in a civil procedure class. Elom Tettey-Tamaklo was a student at Harvard Divinity School. He was also a residential Harvard proctor, someone who advised first-year Harvard College students and lived in their dorm.
In other words, these were not random outside agitators or foolish 18-year-old college students trying to prove their radical clout. They had been chosen by Harvard—Bharmal by its faculty, Tettey-Tamaklo by its administrators—to be leaders, role models, and part of the very fabric of the institution itself.
Ed: And that turned out to be more accurate than Harvard wants to admit now.
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If Biden or Harris were president we’d be getting a scolding right now for this epidemic of Islamophobia. https://t.co/ukAnJmAWC1
— Scott Jennings (@ScottJenningsKY) May 22, 2025
Ed: Once again, Scott gets the final Final Word. Hard to top this anyway!
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