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Last week, when alleged killer Elias Rodrigues …the stereotypical Red Diaper Baby English major whose name is alternately spelt Elias Rodriguez… bumped off Yaron Lischinsky and Sarah Lynn Milgrim outside the Lillian and Albert Small Capital Jewish Museum in Washington, D.C., he thought he was killing Jews.It was clearly a targeted liquidation of Jewish participants at an American Jewish Committee’s event for young professionals. Tough guy Rodrigues fired 21 slugs into the unarmed a couple. A maimed Sarah reportedly tried to crawl away from him, but he continued to shoot her until she was lifeless. As he was being led away from the museum, he proudly chanted, "Free, Free Paleostine." But what Rodrigues didn’t know is that for most of last year, his targets were regular Sunday attendees at the Episcopal Church, Ascension and Saint Agnes Church in downtown Washington. Before he came to the United States, Lischinsky also attended the Anglican Christ Church in Jerusalem. And the "Jewish" event he targeted was an ecumenical meeting between young professionals who were interested in humanitarian solutions to the Middle East conflict. Rodrigues didn’t realize it, but his hateful blindness serves as a warning: this unforgivable violence may begin with Jews, but their rage is directed toward all of Western Judeo-Christian civilization. Many of the ugly, in-your-face anti-Israel protests we have witnessed since October 7 have been led by so-called pro-Paleostinian "anti-imperialists." They regard all of the West as their enemy. Since October 7, the pro-Paleostinian movement regularly dubbed President Biden "Genocide Joe." There is an old saying that the Jewish people have always served as the canaries in the coal mines. They serve as a warning to others living in free societies that senseless hate is coming their way. Washington Episcopal Bishop Mariann Edgar Budde and the Very Rev. Randolph Marshall Hollerith, Dean of the Washington Cathedral understood that the murders of Yaron and Sarah were filled with "brutal irony" since the two were attending a multifaith gathering. "We cannot ignore the brutal irony of where and when these murders occurred: Yaron and Sarah had just attended an event that brought together multifaith attendees to discuss humanitarian initiatives," the two religious leaders said in a statement they issued after the murders. Of course, this "fact" didn’t matter to the killer. The Episcopal leaders further wrote about the couple, "Their attraction to Christ seemed to have deepened their love for their Jewish sisters and brothers as well as their commitment to serve the people of Israel." In their reporting about last week’s killing, much of the mass media, especially the New York Times  ...which still proudly claims Walter Duranty's Pulitzer prize... , emphasized in their headlines that Yaron and Sarah worked at the Israeli Embassy. The "unstated" message was that they died because of the war in Gazoo ...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with a rusty iron fist by Hamas with about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppressionand disproportionate response... . The two young people simply were collateral damage to that war. End of story. But life is more complicated and profound. On Sunday, I attended the majestic Ascension and Saint Agnes Church where the local Rector movingly eulogized the couple as more than 100 perishioners looked on. The main sanctuary displayed a picture of the two with candles below and a cross of Jesus. Although I’m Jewish and wore a yarmulka to the church, I was warmly welcomed by many congregants and by the clergy. Father Dominque Peridans, in his remembrances for the two at the end of the liturgy, he observed that "Yaron, is a Hebrew name which means ’full of joy.’" Rather than a Jew, "He was dedicated to the Christ, Jesus. He worshipped with the community of Messianic Jews." Messianic Jews combine Christian theology with select elements of Judaism. Its adherents consider themselves to be a form of Judaism, but it’s generally considered to be a form of Christianity. Messianic Jews are deep believers in Israel. Father Peridans told the congregants that Yaron was respectful of all other religious faiths, "He actively participated in interfaith dialogue and was dedicated to bridging cultural and religious divides." The same could be said of Sarah. Prior to joining the Israeli Embassy, she went to Israel for five weeks to work at Tech2Peace, an organization that brought together young Israelis and Paleostinians for joint projects. The Jewish News Syndicate reported, "She focused on the experiences of 12 Israeli and Paleostinian participants in a seminar organized by Tech2Peace at Neve Shalom/Wahat al-Salam, a Jewish-Arab village halfway between Tel Aviv and Jerusalem, documenting their stories and the complexities of the Israeli-Paleostinian conflict. She also worked at the United States Institute for Peace in Washington, D.C., a federal agency that studies peaceful resolution to conflicts around the world. Rodrigues never wanted to bother himself with such niceties. Still, other American Leftwing krazed killer groups hailed the killer. A group that describes itself as "anti-imperialist" called, "The Bronx Anti-War" posted that what Rodriguez "did is the highest expression of anti-Zionism" and "We need more Elias Rodriguez in this world" in a pair of social media posts Thursday. And of course, the Iranians heralded the killing. Hossein Shariatmadari, the editor of the Iranian news outlet Kayhan predictably wrote, "Any news of our dear brother Elias Rodriguez, who sent two Zionist wild animals in Washington to hell with a bullet?" Israel’s "Law of Return" never defined who is a Jew. But the State recognizes people in which one parent is Jewish. Both Yaron and Sarah had one parent who was Jewish. Yaron’s parents live in Israel where he was buried just outside of Jerusalem. The Israeli Foreign Ministry accepted the body upon his return to the country. Sarah was born into a family that is tied to reform Judaism. Her funeral will be held on Tuesday at Congregation Beth Torah in Overland Park, Kansas. The Israeli Ambassador to the United States is expected to attend. Related: Elias Rodriguez 05/25/2025 Day 4: Did 'Free Palestine' Terrorist Get Support from Goldman Sachs and China? Elias Rodriguez 05/25/2025 U.S. Universities Have Blood On Their Hands In Latest Violence Against Jews Elias Rodriguez 05/24/2025 Father of accused killer of Israeli diplomats is closely acquainted with Illinois Democrat | |
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| [The Federalist] Yaron Lischinsky and Sarah Lynn Milgrim were a young couple "in the prime of their lives" and planning to get married, according to the Israeli Embassy in Washington, D.C. "Instead of walking you down the aisle, we are walking with you to your graves," wrote embassy spokeswoman Tal Naim in an X post after Thursday after a suspected Jew-hating terrorist shot and killed the embassy employees as they exited the Capital Jewish Museum in Northwest D.C. The accused killer, 31-year-old Elias Rodriguez of Chicago, shouted, "I did it for Gaza," and then chanted "free Palestine" as he stormed out of the museum, according to The Washington Post. Rodriguez reportedly has been involved in numerous leftist causes, including Marxist-Leninist groups and the anti-Israel movement. Authorities are investigating terrorist ties. They need only look to the death cult of the far left, spreading antisemitism messages across U.S. college campuses, Democrat-led cities, even in the halls of Congress for such murderous inspiration. The "Free Palestine" crowd of "From the River to the Sea" chanters are the progeny of a radical left bent on burning down America and the rest of the Western World. And the hands of the modern-day Democrat Party that has been commandeered by these Marxists are covered in blood — dripping from its clenched fist. "These horrible D.C. killings, based obviously on antisemitism, must end, NOW!" President Donald Trump wrote in a post on Truth Social. "Hatred and Radicalism have no place in the USA. Condolences to the families of the victims. So sad that such things as this can happen! God Bless You ALL!" |
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[X] Typical red-green alliance to tear down civilization, starting with the Jews.
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Recall that Luigi Mangione’s grandfather was reportedly "a friend of the Pelosi family" and now, we learn that Elias Rodriguez’s dad is a close acquaintance of Chuy García, a very socialist "activist" lawmaker from the suburbs of Chicago with an affection for Saul Alinsky—in 2015, the Chicago Reader detailed García’s very close friendship with Lola Navarro, a "disciple" of Alinsky, and revealed that he had also been friends with Rudy Lozano, another Machiavellian left-wing "activist" of the day. Politico also ran an article praising García, noting that he belongs to the "reform-minded activist wing" of the Democrat party. Anyway, here’s the story, from an article at the New York Post today: Related: Elias Rodriguez 05/23/2025 A diplomatic storm: Self-inflicted PR damage complicates Israel's uphill battle Elias Rodriguez 05/22/2025 2 people with Israeli embassy ties shot dead near DC's Capital Jewish Museum, murderer shouted “Free Palestine” as arrested | |
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| [EuropeanConservative] In a wide-ranging video address on Thursday evening, Benjamin Netanyahu suggested it was no coincidence that the killing of a young couple outside Washington D.C.’s Jewish museum by a pro-Palestine (apparently Marxist) activist has followed on from European leaders’ demands for Israel to end its war against Hamas terrorists, as well as their buying into "Hamas’ propaganda" on aid entering the Strip. The Israeli prime minister pointed in particular to the false claim that 14,000 Palestinian babies would die in 48 hours because of aid blockades, saying: The press repeats it. The mob believed it. And a young couple is then brutally gunned down in Washington. While they started with Jews (inventing "Palestinians" out of nothing) - it never ends with the Jews. Nowadays, European elites conduct a war of extermination against their own people. |
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| Microsoft Faces Ultimatum From Lawyers: Address ‘Widespread Anti-Semitism’ or We’ll See You in Court 16. May [FreeBeacon] Microsoft has refused to allow Jewish employees to establish a 'resource group' to combat anti-Semitism, the Louis D. Brandeis Center wrote Monday A legal organization accused Microsoft of violating federal anti-discrimination laws and contributing to "widespread anti-Semitism" in its workplace, warning it will sue unless the tech giant fixes the problem. The Louis D. Brandeis Center for Human Rights Under the Law wrote in a Monday letter to Microsoft that its refusal to allow employees of all races and ethnicities—including Jews—to establish resource groups is illegal. Microsoft currently funds nine Employee Resource Groups (ERGs), which host educational events and provide a channel through which employees can communicate concerns about workplace discrimination to corporate leadership. Existing ERGs include "Asians at Microsoft," "Blacks at Microsoft," "Hispanic and Latinx Organization of Leaders in Action," and "Indigenous at Microsoft." Brandeis Center director of corporate initiatives and senior counsel Rory Lancman wrote in the letter that the climate at Microsoft demonstrates why the lack of a Jewish ERG—which would help resolve issues of anti-Semitism—is an issue. An "Interfaith ERG" at Microsoft included non-Jewish employees who told their Jewish coworkers that they "should expect people to blame Jews for what Israel was doing" and that they should stop complaining about anti-Semitism because "Christians and Arabs face more and worse in the world" and "there were so many countries where Jews were the majority," Lancman noted. Immediately after Hamas’s October 7 attack against Israel, Microsoft employees used the company’s internal messaging platform to write slogans like "from the River to the Sea, Palestine will be free," accuse Israel of being an apartheid state, and deny a Jewish right to self-determination, according to Lancman. The Brandeis Center pointed to other incidents in the letter, including graffiti on campus, inappropriate speakers at employee events, and anti-Israel protests and disruptions, arguing that company policy has left Jewish employees at a disadvantage and "allowed anti-Semitism to fester at Microsoft." The Brandeis Center asserted that Microsoft is discriminating against employees who do not fall under any of the nine ERG categories. "Jewish and non-Jewish employees must be provided ERGs on the same terms and conditions as other employees at Microsoft regardless of their ethnicity or shared ancestry," the letter reads. "It’s the right thing to do, and it’s the law." Lancman told the Washington Free Beacon that Jewish employees desire their own ERGs because "they don’t feel they have the tools to effectively address" workplace anti-Semitism, noting that diversity, equity, and inclusion offices are often responsible for "encouraging or fomenting that anti-Semitism." Microsoft, the Brandeis Center wrote in its letter, objects to a Jewish ERG because it characterizes Jews as a religious group, not an ethnic one. Lancman, describing an "unwillingness of corporate America to accept Jewish identity on the terms that their Jewish employees understand Jewish identity," told the Free Beacon that the law is clear. "Jews are an ethnicity under the law, and ethnicities are protected by federal, state, and local anti discrimination laws," he added. "So our message to Microsoft is, insofar as you're going to have ethnicity-based employee resource groups, then you need to allow your Jewish employees to have them." Microsoft denies claim its AI tech was used by IDF during war to target Gazans 18. May [IsraelTimes] Tech giant says that after a thorough review, in response to protests from workers, it found no evidence that its Azure and AI tech have been used to plan strikes in Gaza US tech giant Microsoft denied claims that artificial intelligence and cloud-based computing technologies it supplies to the Israeli military have been used to target people in Gaza amid the ongoing war with the Hamas terror group In a blog post last week, Microsoft acknowledged that it provides Israel’s Defense Ministry with “software, professional services, Azure cloud services and Azure AI services, including language translation,” and has helped in efforts to locate and rescue Israeli hostages. Countering growing criticism, the tech giant disclosed that following internal and external reviews, including interviews with dozens of employees, it “found no evidence that Microsoft’s Azure and AI technologies, or any of our other software, have been used to harm people or that IMOD [Israel’s Ministry of Defense] has failed to comply with our terms of service or our AI Code of Conduct.” However, Microsoft acknowledged that it was not privy to exactly how its programs were used. “It is important to acknowledge that Microsoft does not have visibility into how customers use our software on their own servers or other devices,” Microsoft said. “Nor do we have visibility to the IMOD’s government cloud operations, which are supported through contracts with cloud providers other than Microsoft.” The formal acknowledgement came in response to a group of its employees continuing to publicly protest Microsoft’s contracts that provide AI and cloud computing services to the Israeli military. In April, Microsoft fired two protesting employees who interrupted AI CEO Mustafa Suleyman’s remarks at the company’s 50th-anniversary celebration, accusing the tech giant of selling “AI weapons to the Israeli military.” A group of workers has been raising concerns within the company for months, calling Israel’s fighting against Hamas a “genocide” and accusing Microsoft of complicity in it. Israel has strenuously denied all accusations of genocide. “We’ve heard concerns from our employees and the public about media reports regarding Microsoft’s Azure and AI technologies being used by the Israeli military to target civilians or cause harm in the conflict in Gaza,” Microsoft said. “We take these concerns seriously.” The worker protests followed an investigation by The Associated Press, which claimed earlier this year that AI models from Microsoft and OpenAI had been used as part of an Israeli military program to select bombing targets during the multi-front war against terror groups in Gaza and Lebanon. The AP’s investigation cited exclusive details drawn from internal company data and documents, including that the alleged usage of AI models by the Israeli military through Azure increased nearly 200 times after Hamas’s October 7, 2023 onslaught — in which thousands of terrorists killed some 1,200 people and took 251 hostages — triggering the war. The report claimed that the IDF uses Azure to transcribe, translate and process intelligence gathered through mass surveillance. “It is worth noting that militaries typically use their own proprietary software or applications from defense-related providers for the types of surveillance and operations that have been the subject of our employees’ questions,” the tech giant stated. “Microsoft has not created or provided such software or solutions to the IMOD.” Microsoft pointed out that beyond “the commercial relationship with the IMOD, [it] provided limited emergency support to the Israeli government in the weeks following October 7, 2023, to help rescue hostages.” “We believe the company followed its principles on a considered and careful basis, to help save the lives of hostages while also honoring the privacy and other rights of civilians in Gaza,” the tech firm said. Microsoft currently operates development centers in Haifa, Tel Aviv and Nazareth with most of its 3,000 employees working on projects including cybersecurity, AI technologies, big data and healthcare, as well as sales and marketing. The company opened a local branch in Israel in 1989, and established its first R&D center in Israel, its first outside the US, in 1991. “Microsoft has long defended the cybersecurity of the State of Israel and the people who live there,” the tech firm said. “We share the profound concern over the loss of civilian life in both Israel and Gaza and have supported humanitarian assistance in both places.” Microsoft fires employee for interrupting CEO’s speech to protest AI tech for IDF 23.May [IsraelTimes] Microsoft has fired an employee who interrupted a speech by CEO Satya Nadella to protest the company’s work supplying the Israeli military with technology used for the war in Gaza. Software engineer Joe Lopez could be heard shouting at Nadella in the opening minutes Monday of the tech giant’s annual Build developer conference in Seattle before getting escorted out of the room. Lopez later sent a mass email to colleagues disputing the company’s claims about how its Azure cloud computing platform is used in Gaza. Lopez’s outburst was the first of several pro-Palestinian disruptions at the event that drew thousands of software developers to the Seattle Convention Center. At least three talks by executives were disrupted, the company even briefly cut the audio of one livestreamed event. Protesters also gathered outside the venue. Microsoft has previously fired employees who protested company events over its work in Israel, including at its 50th anniversary party in April.
[NYPost] Microsoft has barred its employees from using the words “Palestine,” “Gaza” or “genocide” in its internal email system as the tech giant looks to crack down on unrest within its ranks following protests of the company’s ties to Israel. The company has quietly implemented a filter on its internal Exchange email system that blocks messages containing the politically charged words without notifying the sender or recipient, according to a report by Dropsite News. “Sending unsolicited email to large numbers of employees at work is not appropriate,” a Microsoft spokesperson told The Post. “We have an established forum for employees who have opted into a variety of issues for this reason.” The spokesperson said that “over the past couple of days, a number of emails have been sent to tens of thousands of employees across the company and we have taken measures to try and reduce those emails to those that have not opted in.” Microsoft has been roiled in recent months by demonstrations staged by a group of employees sympathetic to the Palestinians. The activist group known as “No Azure for Apartheid” has been demanding that management sever ties with the Israeli government and military. Microsoft Azure is Microsoft’s cloud computing platform and infrastructure, offering a wide range of services including computing power, storage, databases, networking, artificial intelligence, and analytics. An investigation by several news outlets revealed that Azure platform was utilized by various branches of the Israeli military — not only for administrative purposes but also for combat and intelligence activities. Leaked documents indicated that Microsoft entered into deals worth approximately $10 million to provide thousands of hours of technical support during the Gaza conflict. Microsoft employees who count themselves as members of “No Azure for Apartheid” told Dropsite News that they first noticed the filters on Wednesday — just days after they staged a protest which disrupted the company’s annual Build developer conference. According to the group, terms such as “Israel” or altered spellings like “P4lestine” are not flagged, raising concerns that the company is selectively silencing one side of the debate. Related: Microsoft 05/16/2025 Trump’s sanctions on ICC prosecutor said to have halted tribunal’s work Microsoft 05/09/2025 Bill Gates Plans to Give Away Fortune, Accuses Elon Musk of 'Killing World's Poorest Children' Microsoft 05/07/2025 Liquidator or competitor? How AI is firing tens of thousands of people | |
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| The US Justice Department said Elias Rodriguez, 31, has been charged with two counts of first-degree murder, as well as other charges, including the murder of foreign officials. An affidavit filed by an FBI agent in support of the criminal complaint said that as police escorted Rodriguez from the building, he shouted, “Free Palestine.” The document said police reviewed security footage showing Rodriguez walking past the victims outside the museum, then turning, pulling a firearm from his waistband, and shooting them in the back. After the victims fell to the ground, he approached them and fired several more times, as Milgrim attempted to crawl away from him. Milgrim then sat up while Rodriguez reloaded, and he shot her again, the video shows, according to the affidavit. Investigators recovered 21 empty shell cases and a 9mm handgun from the scene that matched a firearm Rodriguez purchased in Illinois in 2020. He flew from Chicago to Virginia with the firearm in his checked baggage, the affidavit said. He had declared the firearm for the flight. Rodriguez later told detectives that he admired Aaron Bushnell, an anti-Israel activist who self-immolated outside the Israeli embassy last year in protest, calling Bushnell a “martyr.” Rodriguez, a 30-year-old from Chicago, also said he had bought a ticket to the event at the museum three hours before it started. The case is being investigated by the FBI and Washington’s Metropolitan Police Department, and is being prosecuted by the US Attorney’s Office for the District of Columbia. Israel’s ambassador to the US, Yechiel Leiter, said the attacker was inside the event before the attack. “He milled around inside the event. We still don’t know exactly what he said, but he said enough that they removed him,” Leiter said at a press briefing at the scene of the attack. “He went outside, waited for embassy workers to come out, and shot them.” Three others escaped the shooting unharmed, Leiter said. At his first appearance in court on Thursday, the suspect waived his right to a detention hearing, and a preliminary hearing in the case was set for June 18. Rodriguez said little during the proceeding except to answer, “I do” to questions from a federal magistrate judge about whether he understood his rights. FBI agents were seen at his apartment in Chicago on Thursday, where law enforcement blocked off the street. ‘He never should have made it inside that building’: Security lapses in DC museum killings [IsraelTimes] Head of local Jewish community relations council calls to ‘extend the perimeter around our institutions,’ notes finite resources limit extent to which possible targets can be hardened On Wednesday night, three armed security officers stood guard as the Jewish Community Relations Council of Greater Washington held its annual meeting in the nation’s capital. On the agenda: discussions about the various ways antisemitic rhetoric can lead to violence. Hours later, JCRC CEO Ron Halber said, he found out about the deadly shooting of two Israeli embassy staff at the Capital Jewish Museum. It was a nightmare come to life. “It’s just godawful. There’s no other way to describe it. It was a horrific, antisemitic, anti-Israel, violent attack,” Halber told the Jewish Telegraphic Agency Thursday. “For years I’ve said in Washington, we’re lucky we’ve never had anything” of this magnitude attacking the Jewish community. “That record came to an end last night.” In the attack’s aftermath, Jewish community professionals including Halber are refocusing, again, on how to protect their institutions from threats. The shooting has also raised urgent questions: What went wrong? And what needs to change? “Why they failed tonight we obviously have to figure out,” Eric Fingerhut, CEO of the Jewish Federations of North America, said in an interview with JTA hours after the shooting, regarding security. He added later, “The risks have continued to rise as antisemitism has risen and as anti-Israel behavior in America has risen and our security teams have worked so hard to keep up with that. They obviously didn’t succeed tonight but we will not stop until we’ve ensured the security of our community.” The timeline of the attack is relatively clear and, to security analysts, troubling: According to reports, the attacker shot his victims, the couple Yaron Lischinsky and Sarah Milgrim, on the street outside the museum as the event, organized by the American Jewish Committee, was winding down. He then walked inside the museum, where an eyewitness said organizers offered him water and he remained for around 10 minutes until police arrived and he confessed to the shooting. Both elements of the incident — that the attacker was able to reach his victims outside the event and then proceed inside for an extended period of time — indicate missteps, according to security professionals. “What concerned me as a seasoned law enforcement official is in all the work and the efforts that we put into training civilians, his behavior was almost literally screaming that there’s an issue here,” said Paul Goldenberg, the former head of the Secure Community Network, which coordinates security for Jewish institutions nationwide. Goldenberg said that in a widely circulated video of the suspect entering the building, he appeared nervous and disheveled, with jerky movements. Goldenberg says in the future, rank-and-file attendees need to be aware of those signs — and act on them by alerting someone. “The second he walked in after the shooting there should have been a plan,” added Goldenberg, who is now the chief policy adviser and head of global policing at Rutgers University’s Miller Center on Policing. “If we know that he just shot individuals outside, whatever security was in place, he never should have made it inside that building.” Neither the AJC nor the museum immediately responded to JTA queries about who was responsible for security on Wednesday night. But by Thursday afternoon, five of the leading Jewish groups that focus on security put out a series of security recommendations for future events. The recommendations focus principally on expanding the security perimeter of events; withholding the details of events and vetting attendees; and coordinating with law enforcement or hiring security guards. The AJC had done at least some of that: The invitation said the location would be “shared upon registration.” “The Jewish community is already among the most hardened targets in the country,” Oren Segal, who oversees the ADL’s Center on Extremism, told JTA prior to the recommendations being publicized. “Bulletproof glass and metal detectors is the norm. And the question is, how broad does the perimeter need to be for the Jews to feel secure?” Leading up to the event, the museum was broadly conscious of threats. The day before the shooting, it had announced a new security grant from the local DC government — one that Halber said the JCRC had helped arrange — in connection to a new exhibit on LGBTQ Jews. The $30,000 grant was meant to help the museum cover the costs of security guards both at the front desk and roaming around the museum “to make sure that everybody is safe and that we are prepared in the event of an emergency,” executive director Beatrice Gurwitz told local news at the time. She added that the grant “also helps our staff prepare.” Washington shooting suspect was anti-Israel activist, railed against Seattle’s ‘whitening’ [IsraelTimes] Elias Rodriguez, 31, had ‘Tikkun Olam means FREE PALESTINE’ sign in home window, was linked to Party for Socialism and Liberation; apparent manifesto called to ‘bring the war home’ Long. Key associations mentioned:
Yesterday we learnt that Mr. Rodriguez‘s father, Eric Rodriguez, was an activist for veteran’s and federal workers’ rights, for which he was honoured by Rep. Jesús “Chuy” García (D-Ill.), who brought him to see President Trump’s joint speech to Congress in March. This report adds that he had served in the Army National Guard, which sent him to Iraq. |
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| [NY Post] The father of the terror suspect accused of gunning down two soon-to-be-engaged Israeli Embassy staffers at the Capital Jewish Museum was honored by a far-left member of Congress with an invitation to President Trump’s joint address this past March, The Post has exclusively learned. “Eric Rodriguez was our guest during the President’s Joint Speech to Congress, but we don’t know his family,” Rep. Jesús “Chuy” García (D-Ill.) said Thursday night. In March, he hailed Rodriguez as “an outspoken advocate against attacks on veterans’ services and the rights of unionized federal employees.” “Eric represents the very best of our community — someone who has served his country, continues to serve his fellow veterans and fights every day to protect the dignity of working people,” the congressman said in a statement at the time. “His presence at the Joint Address is a powerful statement: we will not sit back while veterans and workers are treated as political pawns.” Related: Capital Jewish Museum: 2025-05-22 Good Morning Capital Jewish Museum: 2025-05-22 2 people with Israeli embassy ties shot dead near DC's Capital Jewish Museum, murderer shouted “Free Palestine” as arrested |
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The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is eliminating the student visa program at Harvard University due to "pro-terrorist conduct" at campus protests, Fox News Digital has learned. It's a severe consequence for what DHS claims is Harvard's refusal to comply with its requests for behavioral records of student visa holders. "This administration is holding Harvard accountable for fostering violence, antisemitism, and coordinating with the Chinese Communist Party on its campus," said DHS Secretary Kristi Noem. "It is a privilege, not a right, for universities to enroll foreign students and benefit from their higher tuition payments to help pad their multibillion-dollar endowments. Harvard had plenty of opportunity to do the right thing. It refused. They have lost their Student and Exchange Visitor Program certification as a result of their failure to adhere to the law. Let this serve as a warning to all universities and academic institutions across the country." Harvard may no longer enroll foreign students in the 2025-2026 school year, and existing foreign students must transfer or lose their legal status to reside in the U.S. before the next academic year begins. "As a result of your brazen refusal to comply with multiple requests to provide the Department of Homeland Security pertinent information while perpetuating an unsafe campus environment that is hostile to Jewish students, promotes pro-Hamas rhetoric, and employs racist ‘diversity, equity, and inclusion’ policies, you have lost this privilege," Noem wrote in a letter to Maureen Martin, the university’s director of immigration services. Noem offered Harvard 72 hours to provide the information requested for an opportunity to regain its visa program for the next school year. She called the move the "direct result of Harvard’s epic failure to comply with simple reporting requirements." Harvard, meanwhile, asserted the termination was "unlawful." "The government’s action is unlawful. We are fully committed to maintaining Harvard’s ability to host our international students and scholars, who hail from more than 140 countries and enrich the University – and this nation – immeasurably. We are working quickly to provide guidance and support to members of our community. This retaliatory action threatens serious harm to the Harvard community and our country, and undermines Harvard’s academic and research mission," university spokesperson Jason Newton told Fox News Digital. The records requested include any footage of protest activity involving students on visas and the disciplinary records of all students on visas in the last five years. Noem said last month she had requested records related to visa-holding students enrolled in the university and Harvard’s counsel did not provide adequate information to meet the demand. After the DHS general counsel asked again for the information, Harvard provided an "insufficient, incomplete and unacceptable response," she said. "Consequences must follow to send a clear signal to Harvard and all universities that want to enjoy the privilege of enrolling foreign students, that the Trump administration will enforce the law and root out the evils of antisemitism in society and campuses," said Noem. Requested records also include footage or documentation of illegal, dangerous or violent activity by student visa holders, any records of threats or the deprivation of rights of other students or university personnel. Harvard could not immediately be reached for comment. Last month, Harvard announced it would allow foreign students to accept admission to both Harvard and a foreign university as backup amid the Trump administration’s threats to move to block Harvard’s authorization to host them. Typically, students must accept enrollment at Harvard by May 1 and can’t commit to another university. At least a dozen Harvard students have had their authorization to study in the U.S. revoked over campus protest activity. The Trump administration has already frozen close to $3 billion in federal funding to the university, largely dedicated to research, and launched investigations across the departments of Justice, Education and Health and Human Services. They claim that Harvard has failed to address campus antisemitism and eradicate Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI) in its policies. Secretary of State Marco Rubio told Congress this week that the State Department had probably revoked "thousands" of student visas by this point and would "proudly" revoke more. "We're going to continue to revoke the visas of people who are here as guests and are disrupting our higher education facilities," he said Tuesday. "A visa is a privilege, not a right." The crackdown on university policies comes after a wave of pro-Gaza student protests and encampments swept schools across the nation since the beginning of Israel’s offensive campaign to eradicate Hamas after the Oct. 7 attacks to pressure university administrations to divest from Israel.
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