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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.

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[–] iie@hexbear.net 178 points 1 week ago (2 children)
[–] PorkrollPosadist@hexbear.net 121 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Not to mention the IOF firing at a diplomatic mission in the West Bank earlier today.

[–] Bartsbigbugbag@lemmy.ml 75 points 1 week ago

They didn’t even deny it, they just said “they were warning shots because the diplomats veered off the approved path”.

[–] JoeByeThen@hexbear.net 112 points 1 week ago (1 children)
[–] very_poggers_gay@hexbear.net 36 points 1 week ago

Rare news these days that makes sense tbh

[–] SoyViking@hexbear.net 94 points 1 week ago

Lol, they're already out there crying crocodile tears over "anti-Semitism".

I hope this makes other foreign agents of the genocidal apartheid regime occupying Palestine really scared and paranoid. Zionists have had it far too good for far too long.

[–] GalaxyBrain@hexbear.net 90 points 1 week ago

Oh, they're devastating at the 'unspeakable act of violence'? American elementary school students are trained for more violence than this.

[–] plinky@hexbear.net 72 points 1 week ago

The bullets have the right to defend themselves.

[–] Eldritch@hexbear.net 71 points 1 week ago (9 children)

How convenient for Israel. That's certainly a Reichtag Burning moment at a time when they are critically sinking in public opinion and less than 24h after they shot at a delegation of 25 diplomats from 31 countries. If this isn't a classic mossad terror tactic, they must be overjoyed at the luck.

[–] godlessworm@hexbear.net 53 points 1 week ago

thats whats so funny about this to me. israel has killed how many people now visiting “their” ”country” from its western allies; with no consequence?

but when two of theirs come here to promote genocide, and they get shot, its the end of the world

fuck them kids!

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[–] SovietyWoomy@hexbear.net 69 points 1 week ago

yamagami caused a Japanese court to order the dissolution of the unification church

luigi-dance saved lives by causing a spike in approved health insurance claims

Hopefully this does something good

[–] Staines@hexbear.net 68 points 1 week ago

That's awful. Only two?

[–] sempersigh@hexbear.net 68 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (10 children)

good lord they're gonna declare PSL to be a terrorist org and start rounding members up aren't they? Edit: not a member just briefly associated I think

[–] refolde@hexbear.net 42 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

I'd be surprised if this doesn't end up happening.

[–] BeamBrain@hexbear.net 37 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Makes me wonder if the suspect was a patsy or fed.

[–] Grapho@lemmy.ml 45 points 1 week ago (1 children)

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.

[–] Awoo@hexbear.net 68 points 1 week ago (3 children)

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.

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[–] TankieTanuki@hexbear.net 37 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

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.

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[–] thelastaxolotl@hexbear.net 66 points 1 week ago
[–] homhom9000@hexbear.net 66 points 1 week ago

Look; the media already hated us. People were already getting fired over tame statements and censored. The crackdown started 2 years ago. We shouldn't hide ourselves because of this, we should ask ourselves 'what does solidarity really mean?'

[–] XiaCobolt@hexbear.net 61 points 1 week ago
[–] joaomarrom@hexbear.net 61 points 1 week ago (2 children)

First of all, crab-party

Second, I, in no uncertain terms, DISAVOW

Third, comrades who are affiliated to or otherwise associated with PSL, please do be careful. I would absolutely not doubt this will be used an an excuse to crack down on the party as a whole.

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[–] godlessworm@hexbear.net 57 points 1 week ago

hasbara bots are seething on reddit. i saw some post about “october 8th when the bodies were still warm!!! 🥺🥺” lmao no clue what that even had to do with these two piggies being put down

fact: if you work for the nazi german goverment you are bad and deserve to be shot in the street like the lowest level of scum that you are

same goes for zionazi israelis 🤷🤷🤷

[–] FuckyWucky@hexbear.net 56 points 1 week ago
[–] Dirt_Owl@hexbear.net 54 points 1 week ago (1 children)
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[–] inTheShadowOf@hexbear.net 51 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Engaging in genocide long term, what else do they expect to happen? isntrael

[–] damnatum_seditiosus@hexbear.net 48 points 1 week ago
[–] ChestRockwell@hexbear.net 48 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Not going to revive the adventurism struggle session, but also I feel like Luigi action needs to aim higher than "staffers" (unless that is the media is being euphemistic about their role here).

There are, after all, levels of complicity and if adventurism is the name of the game, it needs to aim high up to maximally focus on the most complicit in order to make the tradeoff in crackdowns, etc. worth it.

I feel like this guy might have simply dreamed too small. It's like, I see where you're going, but small potatoes like this don't actually have the same impact as Luigi (in fact, the response will sadly likely be predominantly negative).

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[–] sammer510@hexbear.net 47 points 1 week ago

Inject this shit directly into my veins

[–] LuigiMaoFrance@lemmy.ml 47 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Good. Rot in hell zionists.

[–] kleeon@hexbear.net 47 points 1 week ago
[–] Outdoor_Catgirl@hexbear.net 44 points 1 week ago

Rest in piss, bastards. May this happen to everyone who works for the zionist entity

[–] crazyminner@lemmy.ml 41 points 1 week ago

Get Luigi'ed!

[–] KnownUnknownKnower@hexbear.net 37 points 1 week ago (6 children)

R slash trueanon proposes he was the member with the provided name mentioned in this PSL article from 2017 https://liberationnews.org/chicago-demands-justice-laquan-not-money-amazon/

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[–] FunkyStuff@hexbear.net 37 points 1 week ago
[–] itsgroundhogdayagain@lemmy.ml 36 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Be more respectful, some Republican just lost several thousand dollars in donations tonight.

[–] Kumikommunism@hexbear.net 55 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Israeli embassy workers in DC? Why would they be Republican donors? Or are you a Blueanon weirdo who's trying to disassociate genocide from the Democrats?

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[–] Thallo@hexbear.net 35 points 1 week ago (5 children)

This reads as low level adventurism to me.

Idk who these people are, but people who work at embassies mostly just file paperwork for passports and visas.

It's like going to the DMV for a shooting spree under the pretext of "these people serve the US state and federal government."

It doesn't seem targeted in any useful way.

[–] MolotovHalfEmpty@hexbear.net 38 points 1 week ago

I've known people who work in embassies and yeah, a lot of those roles are most admin and organisational and accounting rather than being diplomats. But the fact that they were still working for the Israeli government at this point, isn't like working for the DMV. They're an essential cog in a genocide machine that only continues to exist and be tolerated because of the diplomatic connections they have with the US, the embassy in question.

It's adventurism sure, but it is targeted. A high ranking diplomat might have more impact in terms of narrative, but would be just as disposable and replaceable to the Israeli regime. Most 'diplomats' for a pariah regime, in a friendly country, are basically just payoff positions for members of the boys club. And if this makes the people who do the actual work of making the mechanism work more likely to want to leave the job, all the better.

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