Outside a humanitarian event in Gaza at Washington’s capital Jewish Museum late Wednesday, Yoni Karin and his wife JoJo saw the museum’s security start to see attendees falling over doors and others who just left.
Among those who came in were the man Karin seemed upset, Karin and others at the museum, who first took the protesters, and the moment they arrived, “suddenly walked” and “quickly went up,” Karin said.
“I did this for Gaza. Free Palestine,” Karin recalls the man who told the officers in an interview with the Times on Thursday. “He said, ‘Free Palestine. There’s only one solution. The Intifada Revolution’ – you know, the usual chant. ”
Karin, a 31-year-old Washington, D.C. resident, said she worked for biotechnology but didn’t know that two Israeli embassy employees had been fatally shot outside. So, when police began to pull the man away and he dropped a red kaffier, or a traditional Arab principal, Karin tried to pick it up and return it to him, he said.
The night when Karin’s wife helped organize the American Jewish Commission and the Multiface Alliance of the Humanitarian Group and Islide was “everything about building the bridge and humanitarian aid and support,” Karin said, and he thought he was on his side with that Isos to reclaim protester Kaffier.
“I regret that now,” Karin said on a night that was almost unsettling Thursday morning. “I regret touching it.”
Like many other mourners across the country, Karin has struggled to handle the “surreal and horrifying” attacks, saying it’s happening at events aimed at increasing collaboration and understanding between Israelis, Palestinians and Americans.
“I don’t think that he would actually help Palestinians or Gaza in this situation if he were to scream ‘Free Palestine’ or ‘Free Gaza’. “It’s really the irony of illness.”
Israeli officials have identified employees at the Israeli Embassy in Washington. Israeli Foreign Minister Gideon Saa said that Jaron Lisinsky is an Israeli citizen and research assistant, and Sarah Milgrim is a US citizen who organized visits and missions to Israel. The US ambassador for Israel said Yetiel Leiter’s ambassador said Lisinski recently bought the ring and plans to propose it to Milgrim in Jerusalem next week.
US authorities have identified the suspect by calling the shooting a “terrifying act.” Metropolitan Police Chief Pamela Smith said Rodriguez had seen her wander outside the museum before the shooting and later walked inside before being taken into custody by security.
Dan Bongino, deputy director of the FBI, said the agency “are aware of certain works that are allegedly written by the suspects and hopes to have immediate updates on reliability.” He said Rodriguez was interviewed by law enforcement early Thursday morning, and the FBI didn’t believe there was an ongoing threat to the public.
President Trump spoke with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Thursday and we had an Ati. General Pam Bondy both promised justice in the shootings.
“These horrifying DC murders, clearly based on anti-Semitism, have to end now!” “Hate and radicalism have no place in America.”
Israel Bacha, the Los Angeles-based consul-general of the US Southwest Pacific, said security is increasing in consular facilities and other Jewish agencies with the help of American law enforcement and local police.
The shooting comes amid the latest major attacks in the Gaza Strip in the war since October 7, 2023, when Israel was attacked by Palestinian extremist group Hamas.
The attack, released by Gaza, killed 1,200 people, and Hamas claimed about 250 hostages. According to local health officials, Israel’s response destroyed Gaza, killing more than 53,000 people, mostly women and children.
Approximately 90% of the territory’s population of approximately 2 million people have been evacuated. Much of the city’s Gaza was bombed and destroyed, causing Israel to stop huge aid from invasion of its territory, causing a massive hunger crisis. Protests in Israel’s actions have spread worldwide to the United States, Israel’s leading arms supplier.
Brian Levin, founder of the Center for Research on Hatred and Extremism in San Bernardino, California, said for decades there has been an increase in anti-Semitic and anti-Muslim attacks in the United States when conflicts arise in the Middle East.
“With the worst conflict, the region has been seen for many years, and by moving images of the terrible loss of life and the suffering that is happening in Gaza, what is ultimately happening is that the soil is softened due to anti-Semitism,” Levin said.
In particular, in recent years, such imagery and misinformation spread on social media has created “rabbit holes where people can become increasingly radical.”
“Unfortunately, we were caught up in an age where peaceful interfaith voices were washed away like a tsunami, leaving a vacuum that allowed foreign conflicts to create prejudice and violence here,” he said. “We’ve had many times and again, on 9/11, the community becomes stereotyped, broadly violent, labelled as a legal target for attacks in a particular niche, which means that you’re completely innocent people being killed.”
Several organizations describe Lisinsky and Milgrim as working on peace and humanitarian work. Karin said many people at the museum event are.
“This act of violence only makes me want to build a bridge even stronger. I think we need to strengthen the coalition. We need more Muslims. We need more Christians. We need more Israelis. “We need people who believe peace is the answer. And hate and violence are not going to solve this problem.”
