The flowers and stones are left out of the Jewish Museum of Lillian and Albert Small Capital on May 23 in Washington, DC
The fatal shooting of two employees of the Israeli embassy in Washington, DC, is raising a new concern for an increase in extreme left militancy in the United States Yaron Lischinsky and Sarah Lynn Milgram, killed in the museum. They were in the museum in the museum in the museum in the museum. The shooting, Elias Rodríguez or Chicago, 31, has been accused of several positions, including the murder of two or first degrees of foreign officials.
According to the affidavit of a special FBI agent in the case, Rodríguez told an officer about the trial: “I did it for Palestine, I did it for Gaza.”
Jeanine Pirro, fiscal lawyer of the United States for the district of Columbia, said that federal authorities are investigating murders such as a hate crime and a crime of terrorism. President Trump has said they were rooted in anti -Semitism. If, in fact, the suspect planned to kill people because their Jewish faith would represent an important anomaly in lethal and anti -Semitic violence.
“[It] In general, he has taken the extreme violent right that has made attacks against synagogues, mosques, black churches, “said Seth Jones, president of the Department of Defense and Security of the Center for Strategic and International Studies. His Jewish faith is … relatively new in the United States.”
Ascending militancy linked to Israeli-Palestine war
Since Hamas directed an attack against Israel on October 7, 2023, at least five known deaths in the United States have been linked to the conflict. The first was a six-year-old Palestinian-American child in Illinois who was stabbed by its owner. Another involved a university professor at California accused or involuntary homicide and battery of a 69 -year -old Jewish counterproteter. A third instance involved a woman who was shot dead by officers out of service after she opened fire in a Church in Houston with a rifle that the police said she had a “Palestinian” sticker. And two men died after the self -friendly in protest of war; One was a member of the United States Air Force outside the Israeli embassy in Washington, DC, and the other was an activist against the war outside the Israeli Consulate of Boston.
But the conflict in Gaza has stimulated many more cases of political violence.
According to the location data project and armed conflict events, a non -profit organization that tracks political violence and protest events worldwide, there have been more than 100 cases of physical conflict in American manifestations related to war. In addition, it has a leg at least 30 cases of damage to substantial property. Understood data includes only cases in which Israel or Palestine was mentioned, potentially excluding many other anti-Semitic, anti-art or anti-musulm incidents that may have been motivated by the conflict, but where those terms were inventory imminent.
Approximately 20 months since it begged hostilities, Colin Clarke said it has been a radicalization effect in the United States, particularly in the political left. Clarke is director of Research at The Soufan Group, a consultancy that focuses on security and intelligence.
“Only its October 7, the war in Gaza, the Israeli military campaign in the Middle East, we have seen this type of increase in what I would call militancy of the extreme left, extrem of the extreme left that surrounds the theme of Gaza,” Clarke. “And not only pro-palestinian terrorist organizations, but pro-hamas, pro-hezbollah, proactual.”
An account of the social networks that is believed to belong to Rodríguez included video publications with Hassan Nasrallah, the former leader of Hezbollah, an anti-Israel militant group based in Lebanon. Clarke also said that “a very small portion” or the protests of the university campus have also presented evidence of support for foreign terrorist organizations designated by the US. But pointed out that terrorism is a “game of small numbers”, where only a few actors can significantly affect public discourse and security perceptions.
Political violence trends in the United States are changing
Duration in the last five years, federal authorities have emphasized that the most “lethal and persistent” threat, when it comes to domestic terrorism, comes from violent white supremacists. The examples of this violence include the murder of 11 people in a Jewish synagogue in Pittsburgh in 2018; The murder in 2019 of 23 people in a Walmart in El Paso, Texas, for a shooter who, according to the reports, said he was pointing to “Mexicans”; And the murder of 10 black people in a supermarket in Buffalo, New York, of a white man whose apparent writings expressed racist and anti -Semitic beliefs.
“What the investigation has shown is that when it comes to and I do not believe that there is another more direct way of saying that the incidents of the death count that are typically affiliated with problems or ideologies that could fit”, the director of analysis and prevention of threats of Saide de Saide in the Institute of Strategic Dialogue, a non -profit organization that focuses on extremism and terrorism.
“The most dominant tactics used by the left are … typically aimed at property. So premeditated fire, vandalism, graffiti, such activities,” Kenealy said. “The orientation and absolute murder of two people is largely an escalation of such tactics.”
However, Kene even said that in recent years there has been a change in political violence. Some incidents have recently shown and clear evidence of motivation by a clear ideology to the right or left. She said this was true, since both believed they tried to kill Trump. In the first thesis, in Butler, Pennsylvania, the shooter had also investigated events in which the then President Biden would be present. The other, in Trump’s Mar-A-Lago Property in Florida, involved an individual Keneallly said it was deep intatatorial content.
Only the case of Luigi Mangione, the accused shooter of the CEO of United Healthcare, has not been clear despite his hug for some at the end.
“What was particularly motivated was the wrath of the United States health system more widely,” he said. “When you look at the materials he published online and his motivation, he was very motivated by this unique problem, more than anything else.”
Many who trace political violence and terrorism say that the ongoing conflict in Gaza continues to represent a threat within the United States.
“I think the more this war persists, the more concern I will have to trigger extremist activity in the United States,” said Jones or CSIS. He said that the possibility of someone from the political left to sign up for Milgram and Lischinsky due to their religious history repeats a disturbing development.
“Frankly, it’s anomaly,” he said. “And I think the difficult thing to know for us is whether it is only an atypical case or if we are likely to see more of these in the future.”