Public Jew slaughter is a harbinger of evil
The killer calmly walked into museum after slaughtering a young couple about to get engaged
We’ve gone from merely threatening Jews on campus to slaughtering them in the open. The killer wasn’t motivated by romantic passion; he was motivated by passionate hatred. The New York Times reported that 30-year-old Elias Rodriguez paced outside the Capital Jewish Museum last night, shot Yaron Lischinsky, 30, and Sarah Lynn Milgram, 26, as they exited the building, then discarded the weapon and calmly walked into the museum where he was apprehended.
To remove all doubt of his motive, Rodriguez shouted “free, free Palestine!” as he was led away by police.
There is no moral or political justification for hate crimes or acts of terror. There is no excuse that anyone can make to defend Rodriguez’s act. The usual political condemnations have already been heard. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was “outraged,” his office told the media. Israel’s foreign minister Gideon Saar, said “This is the direct result of toxic antisemitic incitement against Israel and Jews around the world that has been going on since the Oct. 7 massacre.” President Donald Trump wrote on Truth Social, “These horrible D.C. killings, based obviously on antisemitism, must end, NOW! Hatred and Radicalism have no place in the USA.”
It’s the political equivalent of “thoughts and prayers” after a mass shooting.
D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser said that the shooting would “frighten a lot of people in our city and in our country.” I think that was the point of the shooting, to frighten “a lot of people.” Specifically, Jews. Bowser continued, “we will not tolerate this violence or hate in our city.” It’s just more words, though I think the effort might be appreciated that goes along with the words.
The Trump administration’s efforts to revoke the visas and deport radicalized students or students who merely print or otherwise publish anti-Israel invective may be a comforting sign to Israelis and Jews in America that their security is important and their voices are heard. But it doesn’t really address the issue.
I want to widen the lens a bit and talk about what public Jew slaughter means as a sign of our society (or any society). When a nation progresses to the point where individuals, or the state itself, is more or less comfortable with the public, calm, and focused slaughter of Jews, for the crime of merely existing as Jews, that’s a sign of a kind of decay that is very difficult to cure or reverse.
It’s not just Jews, but Jews serve as a sort of canary in the coal mine for other kinds of moral decay and social disintegration. In the last dozen years, we’ve seen the fracture and balkanization of America into various factions and sects, who as a group tolerate, and sometimes celebrate, violence.
In 2013, Floyd Lee Corkins II filled his backpack with Chick-fil-A sandwiches, and walked into the Family Research Council offices, intending mass murder of the occupants, who advocate and lobby in Washington for Christian values. (It is not lost on me that FRC’s star, a reality show kid named Josh Duggar, was secretly a sex-crazed pervert who shamed his family and his wife.)
In 2014, mass violence resulted after Michael Brown was killed by police in Ferguson, Missouri, outside St. Louis. I came across an interesting image (not sure of the source) from social media I kept on my computer from that time. The quote is “the Jewish people know what it means to be shot, gassed, and buried alive while unarmed due to your ethnicity” tagged #ferguson and #justice.
During the pandemic, riots resulting from the police killing—murder—of George Floyd outside of Minneapolis were not only allowed to continue, but even given space and special permission to break the social distancing policies that shuttered churches and worship events.
It’s relevant that the Trump Justice Department has now ended investigations into Minneapolis police practices, as well as Louisville, Kentucky, where Breonna Taylor was killed by police in Louisville. The investigations proceeded under Biden Attorney General Merrick Garland, who said the “patterns and practices of conduct the Justice Department observed during our investigation ... made what happened to George Floyd possible.”
Unrestrained law and order, as we know, can lead to abuses. As a whole, our country is not subject to the kind of corruption you see in, say, Mexico, but when the federal government signals that local departments won’t suffer any consequences, those who wish to breed corruption will feel free to do so.
But this is not just organized political violence. There are splinter groups and sects all over who flourish online, and sometimes in real life, like the vicious, brutal, murdering rationalist, vegan, transgender Zizian cult. There are individuals whose embracing of the same kind of values, without the organized support, who go out and commit mass murder.
The Department of Justice is opening the files of the 2023 Covenant School shooting in Nashville. The 48-page summary of the shooter’s writings is sealed by the courts. But one motivation is, as in many of these crimes, a desire for the perpetrator to be noticed, and achieve a level of infamy. Another is a hatred for the Christian school.
Luigi Mangione has his own cult of followers, who defend and even celebrate his public slaughter of a health care CEO. These are people who think that health insurers are responsible for our messed-up health system in America. United Healthcare, like the other large insurers, is just trying to comply with the law, and its CEO has little to do with individual horror stories about denied claims. In other words, he’s an innocent.
The public slaughter of innocents, and our society’s building numbness to it, is a sign of moral decay and social disintegration. But the biggest sign throughout history is when individuals go out and kill Jews, and have the support of certain elite and influential classes in doing it.
I don’t think we’ll hear a chorus of celebration at the killing of a young couple about to get engaged. But we will hear that all Jews, and Israelis are somehow complicit, and therefore acceptable targets, in what the Israeli government and the IDF are doing in Gaza.
If you believe that Israel is doing wrong in Gaza (I think they are, but not because I think they’re evil people bent on genocide), then you can address those issues in a proper forum. It’s funny how nobody is targeting Chinese people because of the CCP’s treatment of the Uighur people. Nobody is going after Russians in public slaughter for Russian President Vladimir Putin’s targeting of civilians in Ukraine. Those are not valid lines of division in America.
But in every nation in the world where Jews live and flourish, there becomes a dividing line where someone can calmly slaughter Jews in the street, chant their hate, and win sympathy from those who agree. And make no mistake, “free Palestine” is a call to slaughter innocent Jews. It’s the cry of those who planned an perpetrated October 7th.
Those people, Hamas, are reaping the whirlwind for their actions. The whirlwind will not be quieted.
But I’m worried about America. The canaries, like the two young people who were slaughtered outside the Capitol Jewish Museum last night, are dropping dead. We should heed this warning before it’s too late. It may already be too late.
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For those who have a tenuous grasp of intellectual consistency, here is a brief guide:
If you contend that all Israelis (or all Jews) are culpable for the actions of the Israeli government, then…
1) all Gazans are culpable for the actions of Hamas (ie the Gazan government)(and yeah, that includes Oct 7 cuz duh);
2) all Russians are culpable for the actions of the Putin regime;
3) all Syrians were culpable for the actions of the prior Assad regime;
And as the cherry on top…
4). All Americans are culpable for the actions of the US government.
This should clarify things for the terminally stupid.
I’m generally not for the death penalty unless certain specific conditions are met. One such condition is incontrovertible evidence of guilt. And the f-wit shooter deserves a needle in this case.
All lives and needless suffering should matter. But that’s much easier for a conscience to dismiss when one considers another an innately much lower lifeform. Human beings are being seen and treated as though they are disposable and, by extension, their suffering and death are somehow less worthy of external concern, sometimes even by otherwise democratic and supposedly Christian nations. And it’s not hard for a conscience to do when one considers another an innately lower lifeform.
A somewhat similar reprehensible inhuman(e) devaluation is observable in external attitudes, albeit perhaps on a subconscious level, toward the daily civilian lives lost in prolongedly devastating war zones and famine-stricken regions. In other words, the worth of such life will be measured by its overabundance and/or the protracted conditions under which it suffers; and those people can eventually receive meagre column inches on the back page of the First World’s daily news. It’s an immoral consideration of ‘quality of life’.
With each news report of the immense daily suffering and civilian death toll from unrelenting bombardment, I feel a slightly greater desensitization and resignation. I’ve noticed this disturbing effect with basically all major protracted conflicts internationally since I began regularly consuming news products in the late 1980s.
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WITH news-stories’ human subjects’ race and culture dictating
quantity of media coverage of even the poorest of souls,
a renowned newsman formulated a startling equation
justly implicating collective humanity’s news-consuming callousness
— “A hundred Pakistanis going off a mountain in a bus
make less of a story than three Englishmen drowning in the Thames.”
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According to this unjust news-media mentality reasonably deduced
five hundred prolongedly-war-weary Middle Eastern Arabs getting blown
to bits in the same day perhaps should take up even less space and airtime.
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So readily learned is the tiny token short story buried in the bottom
right-hand corner of the newspaper’s last page, the so brief account
involving a long-lasting war about which there’s virtually absolutely
nothing civil; therefore caught in the warring web are civilians most
unfortunate, most weak, the very most in need of peace and civility.
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And it’s naught but business as usual in the damned nations
where such severe suffering almost entirely dominates the
fractured structured daily routine of civilian slaughter
(plus that of the odd well-armed henchman) mostly by means
of bomb blasts from incendiary explosive devices, rock-fire fragments
and shell shock readily shared with freshly shredded shrapnel wounds
resulting from smart bombs often launched for the
stupidest of reasons into crowded markets and grade schools. …