More information on the DC murder
Horrifying details are coming out now, having been captured on video:
In summary, the video shows a slim build person, wearing a blue jacket with a hood, a large dark-colored backpack, blue pants, and light-colored shoes, consistent with the clothing worn by RODRIGUEZ, walking across F Street, Northwest, in the direction of the Museum, and where the decedents were standing, preparing to enter the crosswalk. Once RODRIGUEZ walked past the decedents and two witnesses, he turned to face their backs and brandished a firearm from the area of his waistband. RODRIGUEZ is captured on the video extending both his arms in the direction of the decedents and firing several times, as indicated by the muzzle flashes. Once the decedents fell to the ground, RODRIGUEZ is captured on the video advancing closer to the decedents, leaning over with them with his arm extended, and firing several more times. As Decedent-1 attempted to crawl away from RODRIGUEZ, he followed behind her and fired again. After a brief moment, RODRIGUEZ appeared to reload his firearm. At the same time, Decedent-1 sat up. Once he reloaded, RODRIGUEZ fired several times at Decedent-1. RODRIGUEZ is then captured jogging back in the direction of 3rd Street, NW, and southbound in the direction of where the entrance to the Museum is located.
A disgusting and repulsive crime. Too bad none of the witnesses were armed.
It also sounds as though – as with leftist hero Luigi Mangione – he initially shot his victims in the back.
I had wondered how Rodriguez was caught, and I had assumed it was outside the building. But that turns out to have been incorrect. Apparently he purposely entered the building after having thrown his gun away. The people there tried to help him, thinking he was someone who’d witnessed the shooting and was seeking shelter:
“The suspect came over to where I was and we offered him water and he reaches into his backpack and pulls out a kufiya and says, ‘I did it. I did this for Gaza,’ “ eyewitness Kalisher shared on Good Morning America.
Speaking with the BBC, Kalisher also explained that at first she heard gunshots outside the building and thought the man was seeking refuge from the violence outside.
“We thought he needed shelter so he comes in,” she shared.
Fellow eyewitness Yoni Kalin added, “People were calming him down, giving him water, little did we know that he was someone who executed people in cold blood. He was the shooter. Once the police originally showed up, he was like, ‘I did this. I’m unarmed,’ pulls out a red kufiya and was like, ‘I did this for Gaza. Free Palestine.’ “
A death and murder cult inspires murder.
Rodriguez supposedly left a manifesto, which can be found here and is apparently filled with the usual bogus “facts” promulgated by Hamas with the cooperation of much of the MSM.
In my earlier post today on the murders, I speculated about the news that Yaron Lischinsky, one of the two victims, was an evangelical Christian. Because of his name, it seemed to me he may have been born a Jew and embraced what is known as Messianic Judaism. That turns out to be the case:
Lischinsky, born in Germany to a Jewish father and Christian mother, moved to Israel at 16 and found a spiritual home in Melech Ha’Mlachim — “King of Kings” in English — a Messianic congregation near Jerusalem’s bustling Mahane Yehuda market. There, he translated sermons for English-speaking visitors and regularly stayed after services to talk about his future with Boskey, who led the youth group. …
Messianic Judaism is a religious movement made up of people who identify ethnically and culturally as Jewish and believe that Jesus — whom they call Yeshua — is the promised Messiah.
Most adherents consider themselves Jewish, a position rejected by the mainstream Jewish community but embraced by congregations like Melech Ha’Mlachim. Unlike Jews for Jesus — an evangelical missionary organization — most Messianic congregations in Israel are locally run and culturally Jewish, with Torah readings, Hebrew prayer and Jewish holiday observance.
The murderer, of course, was not doing research on the religious beliefs of his victims. They were Jews and Israelis as far as he was concerned.
ADDENDUM:
I had also wondered why the murderer stopped at two victims. Apparently it was because his gun jammed or ran out of ammunition.
This ant-semitism and anti-Western Civ mindset is a form of mass delusion created by propaganda. Which is mostly created on social media.
This perp is obviously mentally disturbed. No mentally healthy person can execute innocent fellow human beings like that.
J.J.:
Not necessarily mentally ill. Could be a sociopath. Most likely, though, someone convinced that anyone who is Israeli or Jewish is the equivalent of an enemy combatant and cold-booded child killer.
@J. J.:No mentally healthy person can execute innocent fellow human beings like that.
Evil is not a medical condition.
I’m not sure a Jew can do anything, religious conversion or otherwise, that would get an antisemite to stop regarding him as a Jew. Jews don’t necessarily follow the Jewish religion in any case.
At what point will we say, “Enough!” to the corporate media’s blatant egging on of murderous moslems and their sympathizers? Every time they mindlessly repeat the propaganda from hamas and other islamic polluted “news” streams it winds the spring of violence tighter until… This particular killer of innocents MUST be charged and convicted of premeditated murder and every other federal capital crime and eventually, based on the clear evidence of his cold-blooded assassination of his victims, executed. It is only a shame that his media accessories can not suffer the same fate.
Not just the Corrupt Media.
Many of the morally corrupt, fellow-traveling politicians are guilty, as well, including some horrendous characters in Israel.
Most recently, the purported leaders of the UK, Canada and France, with Spain and quite a few others right up there, along with most of DPOTUS (which is why Fetterman has been such a thorn in his party’s side).
All of them—no matter what they think they’re doing—are, together with Hamas, helping to globalize the effort to destroy the Jewish state.
Interesting times?
Critically decisive times…
Well, the early church had a lot of “Messianic Jews” in it. Including the Apostles. It did not take too long for the ” Gentiles” to outnumber the Jewish members.
What I find strange is that an atheist Jew is apparently considered more ” Jewish ” than a Messianic Jew in some circles.
Both ethnic Jews.
One believes Abraham, Moses, King David etc. were real people and the other often thinks they were myths.
But in some circles , the non believer – in anything – is considered more Jewish than the Jew who believes those people existed and that Jesus is and will be the Messiah.
@Jon baker:But in some circles , the non believer – in anything – is considered more Jewish than the Jew who believes those people existed and that Jesus is and will be the Messiah.
I think it’s specifically Jesus of Nazareth as Messiah that is the deal-breaker. Plenty of Jews have hailed someone as the Messiah over the centuries. Some Jews in Chabad believe in a Messiah who died in 1994 and I never heard they were kicked out of Judaism.
I’m sorry I wasn’t there, there and capable of dealing with this thing!
But in some circles , the non believer – in anything – is considered more Jewish than the Jew who believes those people existed and that Jesus is and will be the Messiah.
I don’t think that’s correct. To traditional Jews, you are Jewish if your mother was Jewish (or had a valid and sincere conversion to Judaism), regardless of your beliefs. Your behavior may be more or less in conformance with Jewish practice, but that doesn’t make you more or less Jewish. Lischinsky was not Jewish because his mother wasn’t Jewish, not because he was a Messianic Christian.
And to NIketas’s comment @9:55, you can’t be “kicked out of Judaism.” You can be regarded as wayward or a heretic (as those Chabadniks who think Rabbi Schneerson is/was the Messiah are regarded by most Jews), but you are still Jewish. There is a concept of excommunication, but that’s ostracism from the community, not expulsion from being Jewish.
“Too bad none of the witnesses were armed.”
This.
These “people” desperately want to start Civil War II and they think they can win it. Like the ” thing” at the Jewish Museum, can he spell cannon fodder, because that’s exactly what he is.
I was about to write exactly what Jimmy wrote above. Good summary.
My oldest and I, a month or so ago, were talking about the campus protesters who were having their visas rescinded. I agreed with him – then – that I didn’t like that, that in the best of all possible worlds, protest ought not to be enough to get a person kicked off campus and out of the country (especially since so much of campus life these days seems geared toward getting impressionable young people to become shrieking “activists”).
But now. I have been shown the error of my ways. In fact, the error of my ways has punched me in the face. What, is it my position that a protester can act with impunity up until the point of attempted murder, and only then can we eject him (I mean, successful murder gets him prosecuted)?
Of course that was never my position. My position was that protest alone shouldn’t be enough to warrant deportation, but that if the protester breaks a campus rule or a law, he’s out. But this event puts the fear of God into me: because apparently some people can go from “protest alone” to murder in one step.
So this is where the real world crashes into the ideals of the Bill of Rights and our commitment to civil liberties. I mean, I’ve always accepted that, in principle, this crash is inevitable. But here it is in the flesh, and what a bloody horror.
@Jimmy:And to NIketas’s comment @9:55, you can’t be “kicked out of Judaism.”
Obviously not, as there’s no central authority for Jews worldwide. But in the Rufeisen case in 1962 the Israeli Supreme Court ruled that a Jew who had converted to Christianity did not qualify for Israeli citizenship as a returning Jew. (He later naturalized, since you don’t have to be Jewish to naturalize.)
I wouldn’t know if there were maybe later rulings or laws that softened this stance but the point is that in Israel there are some implications to your religious status and courts do rule on who is a Jew, who can legally marry a Jew, and who can legally convert to Judaism. In 2007 a follower of Messianic Chabad was denied conversion, but the Chief Rabbinate of Israel overruled that decision.
I don’t know how it would work in any possible case, and I have no idea how common such cases are in Israel, but I can see that there was at least one case of conversion to Christianity that got someone to count as “not Jewish” at least for Law of Return purposes, and one case of believing in a specific non-Jesus Messiah and still counted as “close enough” for legal conversion to Judaism.
I don’t know how far a Jew in Israel can go in their beliefs about Jesus without some implication for their confessional status, maybe it varies case to case, and likely doesn’t come up that much.
From the Federalist:
https://thefederalist.com/2025/05/23/u-s-universities-have-blood-on-their-hands-in-latest-violence-against-jews/
Amazing how the usual D talking point of gun control is silent following these murders. I guess guns are perfectly fine as long as the target is a person the Democrats hate.
Leave it to physicsguy to make a simple, elegant point. I didn’t even notice the silence, but if the victims had been someone the left sympathies with, we’d have demands for immediate action on some gun control initiative.
See buffalo shooting also nashville which prompted that insurrection in state capital
https://nypost.com/2025/05/23/us-news/dc-jewish-shooting-suspect-elias-rodriguez-father-eric-rodriquez-invited-to-trump-address-by-far-left-lawmaker-chuy-rodriguez/
So orthodox jews do not believe the messiah come they follow the proscriptions about meals what is the other major distinction with christianity since the root is the same
Stupid or evil, yes
https://x.com/Osint613/status/1925700855967121843?
Yes, this latest atrocity is part of a coordinated attack not only on Jews and Israel, but on all Western civilization — End Game
We’ve seen this picture too many times before
same old game, we know the score
pathological hatred fed by fear and propaganda
in service of a remorseless barbaric agenda
Deranged justification for a so-called holy war
depravity, rage, brutality and gore
cruelty and sickness for all to see
hellbent on killing all Jews from the river to the sea
What kind of analysis would come from an honest therapist
about people who bestow martyrdom on murderers and rapists
who adopt a charter that says ethnic cleansing is justified
and can’t see the difference between defense and genocide
And what of the enablers who deny or are ignorant of history
promoting excuses, lies and faux moral equivalency
while others stand back and pretend they don’t see
or say who cares, it doesn’t affect me
But understand this, as the conflict continues to rage
more people join in and others try to turn the page
as the perpetrators try to exterminate every Jew
sooner or later they will come for you
For there’s no compromising with evil, no middle ground
Satan is forever prowling around
always looking for more victims, be it people or nations
his ultimate aim, like the jihadis’, is world domination
Yaron Lischinsky, one of the two victims, was an evangelical Christian. Because of his name, it seemed to me he may have been born a Jew..
-insky and -inski are very common in Polish(ki) and Russian(ky) surnames. (-ian, Armenian; -ini, Italian; -cek, Czech…as I learned growing up in the polyglot Northeast..) Most to nearly all with those endings on their surnames are of Christian background. Some Jews, but they are the exceptions to the rule.
Gringo:
His first name in particular, which is Hebrew.
As noted previously, Lischinsky’s father is Jewish, so the last name is, in this case, Jewish. From casual observation, the ‘sky’ ending is more commonly Jewish, the ‘ski’ ending more commonly non-Jewish, though I’ve seen exceptions in both.
Not so much a “Messiah” issue as a “God” issue.
It’s pretty simple, actually: “Thou shalt have no other gods before Me” (where “before me”, admittedly ambiguous, could mean “in addition to Me” or “more important/stronger/preferable than Me” or “instead of Me”).
(To be sure, one can complicate everything…)
With regard to Messiah, though, that’s where things get tricky. What does the word even mean? Put another way, to whom does it—might it—refer?
Might it refer to a secular/military/national saver/savior?—this would likely have been how Rabbi Akiva perceived Bar Koziba-Bar Kokhba, but there may an eschatological dimension lurking as well—or to a spiritual/eschatological savior?
Or both??
I believe that in any event, according to the current mainstream Jewish view sense, the Messiah/Savior is an eschatological figure believed who WILL BE sent—future tense—by God as a precursor (or messenger) to salvation.
Since, as far as I know, this is not exactly(!) how Christians understand the term (though such understanding is not always uniform across the Christian board)…one can began to comprehend the problem at hand (as well as, perhaps, understand why so many Jews—so often searching for the God-answer in unusual places—decide to go the Buddhist route…or even give the Baha’i a try…as well as Christianity).
OMMV
Niketas Choniates on May 22, 2025 at 9:01 pm said:
I’m not sure a Jew can do anything, religious conversion or otherwise, that would get an antisemite to stop regarding him as a Jew. Jews don’t necessarily follow the Jewish religion in any case.
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I have a 14th Edition Britannica (1929). There is an entry on Antisemitism by a British Rabbi. In it he argues that antisemitism is a new development, distinct from religious anti-judaism; that it arose in the past 2 centuries. While he makes a strong case, I’m only partly convinced. Yes, earlier conversion would suffice. (Wouldn’t it now suffice for Islamists?) But “purity of blood” was an issue in 16th C Spain. Is that the beginning? I don’t know.
Lischinsky’s religious identification is an interesting side story to this horrifying murder. I’ll leave it to Jewish groups to define who is properly speaking Jewish; this is not my call. He was serving his nation, Israel, as a respected diplomatic employee at the nation’s embassy in our nation’s capital.
We have now had, recently, street assassinations of an insurance industry executive in New York and a diplomat in Washington, D.C. These follow the attempted assassination of Republican elected officials in 2017 and the attempted assassinations of Trump, one of which came within an inch of success. These crimes have come, generally, from the same radical groups who foment hatred online and in colleges and in public demonstrations which veer into property damage and violence.
The Trump administration is, rightly, beginning to weed out radical foreign influences and students from universities, removing funding from those who won’t police themselves. What we need is for authorities to investigate the funding of these violent antifa and leftist-affiliated groups for RICO criminal violations.
Jamie, I worked in Latin America for 4 years. I was not a citizen in those countries, but a guest. Because I was not a citizen, it was not appropriate for me to get involved in their politics. Moreover, the charge could have been made that were I involved in local politics, I was an American imperialist imposing my politics. A good rule of thumb for working overseas is “Don’t make waves.”
That doesn’t mean that I didn’t bump into incidents with political meanings, but I will leave those stories for another time.
The media and the Democrats are pushing a license to kill.
Kill the president.
Kill the Boer
Kill the Jew
Kill the corporate exec
Kill the white male christian (Transphobes they be)
Kill the fascists (Nazis)
Kill the unborn
Is there a pattern?
Taking it Rodriguez is just a useful idiot, not being a Muslim nor a resident of Gaza. Just being a Leftist joining the cause with Marxism’s anti Jewish.
Would be nice to see him put on death row but that rarely happens.