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May 22, 2025

Bring Them Home

They Are Coming for All of Us

Let's not pretend or try to be politically correct about it. Anti-Israel and antisemitic rhetoric is the reason why two young Israelis were murdered by a terrorist last night in Washington.

Yes, there is a war in Gaza that started with a massive Hamas attack and a brutal massacre of Israelis and an Israeli response to destroy Hamas and those who lead (Iran) and join (Hezbollah/Houthis) them. This terror attack took place in the US Capitol outside the Jewish Museum by a terrorist who was given water by other people who attended the event when he appeared to be in need after the attack. They only realized he was the terrorist after helping him. And that in a nutshell captures the difference between the two sides of this conflict.

The Forward's Rob Eshman agrees with me on the rhetoric and his editors used it in the headline: "How anti-Israel rhetoric led to the killing of two in Washington, D.C." "If there was ever a time for reckoning in the anti-Israel movement, this is it. The cold-blooded murder of Yaron Lischinsky and Sarah Milgrim in Washington, D.C., last night should mark the beginning of the end — preferably the end of the end — of the zombie belief that the only path to a 'Free Palestine' is to abolish Israel. Now we see where that eliminationist ideology can lead: to murder.

Like many of the people murdered by Hamas on October 7, Yaron and Sarah were peace-seeking activists, but that seems to never matter. It didn't matter 80 years ago in Europe and it doesn't matter now. It didn't matter last night when two people were shot dead outside the Capital Jewish Museum in Washington, D.C..

It is my hope (I promised not to mince words) that the terrorist "identified as Elias Rodriguez, who [police] believe was solely responsible" is convicted and, applicable for a federal crime, is sentenced to death.

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Annual Meeting Keynote Speaker Ana Sazonov Answers Your Questions About Ukraine

On June 16, 2022, at our annual meeting, we hosted Ana Sazonov, executive director at the Jewish Federation of Columbia, SC. Ana recently returned from two weeks of volunteer work at the Ukraine border with Poland and shared her experience with us. We had many questions after and she answered all of them.