Embassy staffers’ hate-driven killing: Letters – Latest News
The Issue: Two Israeli embassy staffers who have been shot and killed in Washington, DC, on Wednesday.
There’s no query that America’s Jews are experiencing an unprecedented degree of rampant antisemitism (“Home grown terror,” May 23).
Attacks in Charlottesville (2017), Pittsburgh (2018), Poway (2019), Jersey City (2019) and Colleyville, Texas (2022) all occurred earlier than Hamas murdered 1,200 Israelis in October 2023, igniting anti-Israel protests throughout America.
The current murders of Israeli embassy staffers jogged my memory of Mel Brooks’ tackle the Inquisition: Antisemitism is right here, and it’s right here to remain.
I can’t enter a synagogue, Jewish faculty or Jewish neighborhood heart with out being greeted by armed guards.
It’s irrelevant whether or not a Jew helps Israel, believes that Israel has dedicated warfare crimes in Gaza and/or Palestine or doesn’t even have an opinion. Every Jew is now honest recreation.
Paul L. Newman
Merion Station, Pa.
Elias Rodriguez has gained prompt notoriety, if not outright stardom, in his killing of two Israeli embassy staffers.
He has now develop into the poster little one of antisemites and people in search of Israel’s outright destruction worldwide.
Raised fists and celebrations are sure to observe, not solely amongst Hamas and its followers however amongst right- and left-wing extremists each on and off campus within our own beloved nation.
History continues to repeat itself. And for many who suppose in any other case, Elias Rodriguez and his ilk will set you straight.
S.P. Hersh
Lawrence
Much might be written and stated within the weeks forward about Rodriguez and his hate for the Jewish people and America.
In America, he’s harmless till confirmed guilty. But I imagine he needs to be handled on a federal degree, and if convicted, be sentenced to death.
There is no distinction between him and Timothy McVeigh, who was accountable for the death of 168 women and men who perished in a violent explosion that McVeigh made and planted. It, too, was deliberate and premeditated.
America should defend itself towards these anarchists.
Patrick Abbruzzi
Staten Island
What is happening in America? I see a beautiful younger Jewish couple gunned down in DC, simply because they’re Jews. I see deranged hoodlums ruining the Columbia commencement ceremonies and burning their diplomas. I see fixed assaults on Jews everywhere in the nation. I’m beginning to really feel like I’m dwelling in 1933 Germany, fairly than 2025 America.
Even if the despicable thug who shot the pair is given the death penalty, and even when the misguided jerks who destroyed their diplomas are by no means employed by anybody, the harm has been achieved.
The solely factor I can hope for is that President Trump correctly offers with these ugly conditions.
Warren Goldfein
Mount Arlington, NJ
Three harmless people have now been murdered by two miscreants who thought they have been killing for a trigger.
How a lot more disillusioned can Luigi Mangione and Elias Rodriguez be? They each believed they did one thing that needed to be achieved.
The murders received’t change something. But what’s going to change is Mangione and Rodruqez’s views on most security prisons, the place they need to spend the remaining of their lives.
Donald Riccio
Manchester, Conn.
If anybody doubts the barbaric nature of antisemitism, he need look no additional than the slaughter of two harmless people in Washington, DC, each devoted to creating higher relationships between Israelis and the remaining of the Middle East.
The deranged American assassin, fueled by the incessant drumbeat of hate spewed by college students on campuses in addition to leftist members of Congress, snuffed out the lives of two lovely younger people.
Yaron and Sarah shouldn’t have died by the hands of a terrorist.
Antisemitism has been round for hundreds of years. When will we discover the resolve to lastly put an finish to this hateful persecution, not less than in America?
Anthony Bruno
Smithtown
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