The Guardian May 23, 2025
There is no excuse for the killing of two Israeli embassy workers

Critics of Israel’s atrocious conduct in Gaza should be clear that their focus is the authors of that violence — not Israeli civilians

Israel’s campaign of bombing and starving Palestinian civilians in Gaza is inexcusable.
It reflects a massive war crime, as the international criminal court has already charged, and arguably genocide.

But it in no sense justifies the murder of two young Israeli embassy workers in Washington by a man who then chanted:
“Free, free Palestine”. Nothing justifies violence against civilians.

The killing of Yaron Lischinsky and Sarah Milgrim occurred on Wednesday evening outside the Capital Jewish Museum, where the American Jewish Committee was hosting a reception for young diplomats. Inadequate and insufficient security measures failure for such an event, in heightened antisemitism

The suspect, identified as Elias Rodriguez of Chicago, was detained shortly after the shooting.
His social media accounts indicated that he had been involved in pro-Palestinian activism.

Beyond that, we don’t know exactly what motivated him, but he is likely to have acted in retaliation for Israeli atrocities in Gaza.
That would be unequivocally wrong.