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Elias Rodriguez opened fire outside the Capital Jewish Museum, killing two, a soon to be engaged Israeli couple, and wounded two others, but few media outlets reported his political orientation and his background. Or the outpouring of support from the anti-Israel Left.
In 2023, stickers reading “Exterminate Zionists” and the name of the Party for Socialism and Liberation appeared at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. Rodriguez had been a member of the affiliated University of Illinois at Chicago and had been a member of the Party for Socialism and Liberation. According to Rodriguez’s manifesto, he became radicalized 11 years ago and was convinced that killing Israelis, Americans and Jews was the right thing to do. That was the same year that he was being quoted as taking part in protest rallies and speaking on behalf of the Party for Socialism and Liberation.
PSL claims that Elias Rodriguez only had a “brief association” with the Communist group, but even according to their timeline, the terrorist was with the organization for at least 3 years.
And likely more.
Rather than disavowing him, members of the pro-terrorist movement cheered his crimes.
Palestine Action US, which currently uses the Jihadist name ‘Unity of Fields’, distributed an illustrated version of the D.C. killer’s manifesto under his headline of “Escalate for Gaza”. It described the murder of a Jewish couple attending an event at a Jewish museum as “the rightful execution of the two nazi pigs” and hailed “the resistance that Elias will inspire.“
Rep. Rashida Tlaib had previously held an anti-Israel event featuring Palestine Action US, the Campaign for Palestinian Rights, Jewish Voice for Peace and the Islamist group EMGAGE.
The Bronx Anti-War Coalition declared correctly that “what Elias Rodriguez did is the highest expression of anti-Zionism” and “we need more Elias Rodriguez in this world.” Its rallies have featured banners with pictures of Islamic terrorist leaders and calls for joining Iran’s ‘Axis of Resistance’.
PSL tried to deny its link to the murderer, but did not condemn it. Rodriguez was simply implementing the PSL’s enthusiastic support for the mass murder of Jews, and the Communist terrorist switched from cheering the attacks from the sidelines to actually engaging in them.
The Party for Socialism and Liberation is a Communist party with Trotskyist roots. Its most publicly visible face are the anti-war ANSWER coalition protests after 9/11. After Oct 7, PSL focused heavily on anti-Israel rallies. At a rally after the Hamas Oct 7 attacks, a PSL speaker celebrated that Hamas had “liberated an area that is actually larger than the Gaza Strip.”
He joked about the Nova festival massacre that “there was sort of rave or desert party where they were having a great time, until the resistance came in electrified hang-gliders.”
Participants gleefully chanted “700” in reference to the then reported number of Israeli victims.
One of Rodriguez’s reposts was titled, “Don’t Blame Me, I Voted For Hamas.”
He also reposted speeches by former Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah along with Iranian slogans such as “De@th 2 Amerikkka” and “Death to Israel”.
PSL’s official response on Oct 7 described the Hamas atrocities as “a counter-offensive by Palestinian resistance forces” and argued that the “actions of the resistance over the course of the last day is a morally and legally legitimate response.” And it declared that, “resistance to apartheid and fascist-type oppression is not a crime!”
Rodriguez’s manifesto was titled “Escalate for Gaza. Bring the war home.” That’s been the premise of the pro-terrorist rallies, including by his old organization.
While PSL may seem obscure to most Americans, its presidential candidate appeared on the ballots of 7 states, including California, New York and Florida, Its presidential candidate Claudia De La Cruz however works for an organization funded by a Maoist millionaire operating out of Communist China which has been accused of acting as a front of the regime.
Like PSL, the People’s Forum described Oct 7, as an “unprecedented liberation struggle” by “Palestinian resistance factions”.
“We give our heart, we give our life, we give our blood to the Palestinian people,” Manolo De Los Santos, a founding director of The People’s Forum declared at a pro-terrorist rally in Manhattan. “We will use whatever we have in our hands. A rock or something else. We will defend the Palestinian people.”
The anti-Israel Left is rapidly rationalizing and even celebrating the murder of a Jewish couple because that is what they intended all along. They were never going to draw the line at blocking highways while glorifying Hamas. The goal was to get useful idiots like Elias to carry out attacks.
Why did a Latino man travel across the country to murder a Jewish couple? Because he had been indoctrinated into believing that it was the right thing to do by a network of terrorist groups pretending to be “pro-palestinian” or concerned about “human rights”, when what they actually wanted was a pretext for street and then terrorist violence and finally a revolutionary takeover.
While America has seen numerous Islamic terrorist attacks, the rate of individual Communist attacks has declined. The red-green alliance between leftists and Islamists is partly a means of revitalizing the terrorist capabilities of the Left. That’s why they’re celebrating Rodriguez’s murders because they’re not an outlier, the murders are where they want America to go.
Daniel, it seems the young man, at the very least, was not Jewish. He was Christian and from what I’m reading, he was born a Christian. (I think in Germany, but don’t quote me.) Not sure about the young woman as I haven’t read or heard anything regarding her religion. But I’m sure you want to get your details right. No need to post this. Just a message to you about that piece of your writing. fyi
He served in the IDF and loved Israel
The POS did not care
his religion
I think they were both Jews at birth but became Christians.
I’m not trying to be picky but it’s very possible that the murderer believed that the couple that he murdered were Jewish as they were attending a Jewish event at a Jewish Museum. So, it’s likely that his intent was to murder Jews and only Jews.
However, where did he get his information about where and when in DC to attack.? And why go there in the first place? Because it might get more attention to carry out this attack if it was in DC? And if he travelled across the US to get to DC, presumably by air, then where did he get the gun to shoot 4 people, because you can’t carry one aboard a plane.
I could be wrong, but this looks like more than a one-man job.
Anyway, may God bless the families of those young people.
apparently he was born to a Jewish father and a Christian mother and was a practicing Christian from a movement that identifies as Jewish
She was Jewish
I’m not sure that level of detail matters, but it is worth noting that he was Christian
Some call it “Messianic Judaism.”
He also loved Israel.
Adopted into the family of the Jewish Savior at my difficult adult conversion to Christ 55 years ago makes me very sympathetic for the original Tribe.
These murderous nut jobs need to move to Gaza, they being so righteous and morally superior to anyone not them.
Excellent coverage Daniel.
I was thinking about the point that it was a typical Lenin-Trotsky type assassination, aimed at furthering the Revolution.
Forget deportation.
Congress should pass, and the President sign into law, a new national death penalty for anyone who murders any Jew. This proposed law should mandate that all executions thus carried out be done in gas chambers. ….. Poetic Justice
Jews are not any more special than Hindus, Indians, blacks, Hispanics, whites, Asians or anyone else.
Just one more group of people whining for privilege and special treatment, like all the rest.
As for antisemitism, I’m not sure how this works… am I an antisemite if I support these Jews over here as opposed to those Jews over there, or is it the reverse? Am I supposed to support those Jews over there instead of these Jews over here?
For instance, Jewish Voice for Peace is comprised of Jews, so if I support these Jews, am I an antisemite? If so, why? How do I know these Jews over here are wrong and those Jews over there are the “true Jews”? What authority tells me who is really Jewish and who isn’t?
The J VP is comprised mostly of Moslems.
When the El Al ticket counter was assaulted in the aftermath of 9/11, President Bush the Younger did not want to concede that it was a terrorist attack, so he made certain the FBI would label it as a random assault, and the mainstream media supported him In this.
I sent emails to various radio talk show hosts, asking them to re-interview the witnesses to this random assault and specifically ask if the killer walked up to a family of “civilian Jews” in regular western clothes, or Jews wearing kippas, ar perhaps Orthodox Jews in full Orthodox Frocks.
Finally, one of them did, and the answer was “yes” …the killer did walk up to identifiably Jewish passengers waiting in line and those were the ones murdered. Other radio hosts picked up on this as well.
The myth of the “Random Attacker” who just “accidentally happened to kill Jews” was busted.
Bush the Younger’s propaganda that he had successfully foreclosed on any and all possible subsequent terrorist attacks in the USA was busted.
The myth that the FBI is a right wing organization was busted.
The fact that NONE of the mainstream media network’s had thought to ask the witnesses to the LAX El Al ticket counter terrorist attack was enough to prove that it WAS in fact a Muslim Terrorist Attack, ala the logic of Sherlock Holmes’s “the dog that didn’t bark” as applied to “the question that none dared ask” ……as it were…..
Or are you too thick in the skull to follow this?
…after all, Most anti-Semites ARE that thick. 😉
Right. A national death penalty for anyone that kills a Jew.because Goldstein thinks the Jews are more important than anyone else. Then you wonder why there is always Jew hatred on the rise. It’s clowns like you that put this lunacy out there like the Jews should get special treatment and to hell with the rest of society. You pathetic puke.
Elias Rodriguez should get the death penalty, but not because he killed a Jew. It’s because he killed another human being. And the male victim was a Christian. Oh, does that change your mind on the death penalty now, Goldstein?
Boy, are you sick!
Seb is too much a n°gg_r to understand the advanced concept of poetic justice.
Most NOI followers of Farahkhan are.
unfortunately when this murder dies down the next thing will be a go fund me page for this lowlife . then bucket loads of taxpayer money will be spent on a defense lawyer who will give it the victim spin to reduce his sentence . there is always a justification for murderers . it is a pity we cant fry them anymore . its inhumane they will screech , yes ! just like the shooter . he will join all his terrorist muslim friends in hell , and believe me there is such a place .
If Winston Churchill had access to thermonuclear weapons and means to deliver them, he could have stopped The First Jewish Holocaust dead in its tracks. This is the position Israel finds itself today.
Look to the money from Qatar
I am wondering what rodriquez’s and tlaib’s inspiration will be on Judgement Day?
FINALLY…. exposing ANSWER and The Party for Socialism and Liberation. There is also The Revolutionary Communist Party and the Mother-of-all-Communists… THE COMMUNIST PARTY USA! THEIR MEMBERS ARE ANTIFA! Police: “We can’t identify them because they wear masks.” So do bank robbers so they let them go or do they follow them to their cars and unmask them? Cameras are everywhere and they can’t track them all the way to their home? No reports of “ANTIFA UNMASKED”? Was Rodiguez a member of ANTIFA? He fits the brainwashed profile and probably looted, committed arson, and maybe even attacks on police. Someone that brainwashed isn’t satisfied with just screaming! WHO ELSE KNEW OF HIS PLANS? He had to brag about his Jihad to make him a hero to this DOMESTIC TERRORIST GROUP WHICH IS NOW CHEERING HIM ON! (When he wakes up from his brainwashed trance and Big Bubba is climbing into his bunk, he’ll be crying like a baby realizing what he really did, and his future is life in prison, maybe even Gitmo to be with his Comrades, he could flip and reveal the inner workings of these groups, it’s leaders, and FUNDERS! I don’t think most prisoners like TRAITORS!
Here in Albuquerque, ANSWER is led by Bob Anderson, a product of the ’80s NM Peace Council, directly tied to the US Peace Council/CPUSA and the World Peace Council/Soviet KGB, who also leads Solidarity Network, Nukes out of the Duke City, and organizes all of today’s protests, including for Pro-Hamas. (Photos for proof.) His Pro-Hamas mob, also organized by Jewish Voice for Peace whose middle-aged woman told me, “HAMAS DIDN’T DO ENOUGH!”, took over the UNM SUB with sixteen arrests, all cases dismissed even after $40,000 in damages. The director of the SUB did the same when a mob kicked holes in the walls ending a visit by Tomi Lahren after twenty minutes. “We took care of it internally.” THEY SUPPORT THESE MOBS WHO CONSTANTLY GET AWAY WITH IT! ——— The Party for Socialism and Liberation is led by JOEL MARCOS GALLEGOS, FB/”Marxist-Leninist”, who appeared as the leader of Albuquerque’s first ANTIFA during a visit by Milo Yiannopoulos. Gallegos also sponsors PRO-HAMAS rallies, and I interviewed several protesters, acting like I was one of them, with seven saying they were Pro-Hamas but weren’t allowed to disclose that in their signs. They did promote “Intifada” though.
Very informative post. 🍻👍🇺🇸
So has Taylor Lorenz come out yet to say this Rodriguez chap is a “morally good man, which is hard to find”?
Or nah, since he’s kinda of schluppy looking and not handsome like Super Mario Brother Luigi Manngioni??
Why do not folks wake up to this slimy Red–Green coaliTion? Evil coalition for many De-Cade s ..
Like the Oct. 7 massacre, the murder of this lovely young couple—on the verge of getting engaged—is a satanic horror wrapped in the politics of Islam and the left. The left is a disease that kills its hosts and then has to keep recruiting new hosts—which it somehow INSANELY keeps being successful at doing.
Dumbing down the young through indoctrination in school and via pop culture has always been a heavily worked strategy for recruiting to the leftist cause—whose fruits have now been on display for over a century—in the Soviet Union, in the People’s Republic of China, in Cuba, in Venezuela—and basically in the People’s Republic of Anywhere— including too many American cities!
Limited government, God-given liberty, and Truth represent the real hope of humanity. But the left can’t have any of that—unless they can wrap it in lies via groups like the ACLU. Then they’re all for citing the Constitution!
Nothing will bring back this lovely young couple or take away the pain of family and friends. But I do hope this travesty will backfire and negativity impact the left’s ability to recruit.
…as do I. The fact that these were Jewish peaceniks, just like the Nova concert-goers were, should in fact limit the LEFT’s ability to recruit new Jews into its ranks
A revolutionary takeover by these animals is not a far-fetched idea.
Look how close the U.S. came to succumbing to tyranny under the
possible election of Kamala Harris. Is it far fetched to think that she
would be eager under some flimsy pretext to place us under martial
law – and then keep us there. Recall how she slobbered over Islam
while vice-president. It’s likely that terrifying Jihad would have thrived
under her – as it did under Obama.
Islamist-loving, Global Communists like Kamala-Biden, Obama and
Hillary Clinton would cluck over the murders of Yavon and Sarah and
issue phony platitudes – then done absolutely nothing to prevent it
from happening again.
Except for Donald Trump, we are that close to revolutionary takeover.
This act is essentially progressive violence. It follows the pattern of the murderer Luigi Maggione, the attacks on Tesla dealerships and cars, and the massive campus anti-Israel encampments. It is not so much antisemitism as it is RAINBOW FASCISM. These violent thugs don’t care about the Palestinians. If they did, they would be calling for Hamas to release the hostages and make peace with Israel. The whole point of a century of attacks on Israelis is to force the israelis to respond in self-defense. Then they can point to the posturing of useful idiots who blame Israel for the ensuing deaths.
Buffoons like this perpetrator encourage the continuation of the war against Israel that has gone on for over a hundred years. The Gulf States know that Israel is not their enemy. Iran and the Islamist terrorists are their enemy. They are terrified to be public about it but Israel’s war against Hamas, the Houtis and Hezbollah has furthered their interests and the interests of those in the middle east who want to stop being ruled by a seventh century death cult and want to join the modern world.
What I find so depressing is how so many liberals, including liberal Jews, are so eager for the approval of so called “progressives” that they go along with the lie that Israel is responsible for the Gaza War. If they would just stop rewarding the terrorists, a peace between Israel and its neighbors could be achieved.
I don’t understand the repeated over decades overwhelming support American Jews have for Democrats and their policies.