Washington D.C.
“All of us must do what we can to fight antisemitism, to make this a turning point, to make the world understand we will not accept this as normal,” said Ted Deutch, the CEO of the American Jewish Committee.
Rabbi Levi Shemtov, executive vice president of American Friends of Lubavitch (Chabad), said “we’ve never had anything like this before. Jews shot dead in the street.”
Elias Rodriguez, 31, told officers on site: “I did it for Palestine, I did it for Gaza. I am unarmed,” the complaint states.
“This attack represents a natural culmination of what we’ve seen over the last 600 days. People who are rationalizing the murder of Jews,” said William Daroff, of the Conference of Presidents.
City officials and faith leaders gathered at the Center for Jewish History in Manhattan the day after a gunman killed two employees of the Israeli embassy in Washington.
While the gunman came from Chicago, alderman Debra Silverstein said “there is no known threat” to the Jewish community, though security will be increased “out of an abundance of caution.”
The “perpetrators and abettors” of genocide have “forfeited their humanity,” the document states.
“For these neo-Nazis, ‘Free Palestine’ is just today’s version of ‘Heil Hitler,’” Netanyahu said in a statement addressing Wednesday night’s shooting.
The murder “underscores the magnitude of antisemitism,” the senior counsel to the assistant U.S. attorney general for civil rights told JNS.
“Antisemitism, along with Islamophobia and other forms of ethno-religious hatred, have festered far too long in the United States,” Rep. Jared Huffman (D-Calif.) stated.
“This a blaring warning to all Americans, across the political spectrum, that the world’s oldest hatred continues to plague our society,” Matt Brooks, of the Republican Jewish Coalition, stated.
The murder of Yaron Lischinsky and Sarah Lynn Milgrim are a “direct result of toxic antisemitic incitement against Israel and Jews around the world,” said Israeli Foreign Minister Gideon Sa’ar.
