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Last week's fatal shooting of two Israeli students in Washington, D.C. has attracted attention during the U.S. alleged murder of 31-year-old Elias Rodriguez Murria Rodriguez the Prince the Priment unias Rodriguez and arrested a case at the capital Jewish Museum on May 21. Foreign officials.
According to the affidavit of the FBI Special Agent, Rodriguez told an officer after the arrest: “I did it for Palestine, I did it for Gaza.”
Jeanine Pirro, a U.S. attorney at the District of Columbia, said federal authorities are investigating the murders as hate crimes and terrorism crimes. President Trump said they are rooted in anti-Semitism. If indeed, the suspects plan to kill people because of their Jewish beliefs, this would represent the major anomaly of fatal, anti-Semitic violence.
"(IT) is often a right to violence, attacking synagogues, mosques, black churches," said Seth Jones, president of Defense and Security at the Center for Strategic and International Studies. "Having people from the violent left attacks on individuals with Jewish beliefs is … relatively new in the United States."
Since Hamas attacked Israel on October 7, 2023, at least five people in the United States have been linked to the conflict. The first was a six-year-old Palestinian-American child in Illinois who was stabbed to death by his landlord. Another involved a University of California professor who was charged with involuntary homicide and assault by a 69-year-old Jewish anti-trust agency. The third example involves a woman who fired with a rifle after opening fire at a Houston church, and police said there was a "Palestine" sticker on it. Two men died in self-medium protest. One is a member of the U.S. Air Force from the Israeli Embassy outside Washington, D.C., and the other is an anti-war activist outside the Israeli Consulate in Boston.
But the conflict in Gaza has stimulated more cases of political violence.
According to the Armed Conflict Location and Event Data Project, a nonprofit that tracks global political violence and protests, there are more than 100 instances of physical conflict caused by war-related demonstrations in the United States. In addition, there were at least 30 severe property losses. Only mentions of Israel or Palestine situations may include many other anti-Semitic, anti-Arab or anti-Muslim incidents that may be motivated by conflicts, but those terms are not explicitly called.
In nearly 20 months since the start of hostilities, Colin Clarke said the radical role in the United States, especially the political left. Clarke is the research director at Soufan Group, a consulting service focusing on security and intelligence.
"Only since October 7, the war in Gaza is an Israeli military movement in the Middle East, we have seen what I call this uplift, what I call the left-wing armed, the extreme extremism surrounding the Gaza issue," Clark said. "Not only is it pro-Palestine, but it's actually a pro-Hammas, pro-Herbira, a cordial terrorist organization."
A social media account believed to belong to Rodriguez includes a post that includes Hassan Nasrallah, former leader of Lebanon's radical anti-Israel clique. Clark also said that “a small percentage” of university campus protests also provided support for designated foreign terrorist groups in the United States. But he noted that terrorism is a "decimal game" with only a few actors who can significantly influence public discourse and perceptions of security.
Over the past five years, federal authorities have stressed that the most “deadly and lasting” threats in domestic terrorism come from violent white supremacists. Examples of such violence include the killing of 11 people in a synagogue in Pittsburgh in 2018; a shooter who was reportedly targeting “Mexicans”, killing 23 people in 2019 at a Walmart in El Paso, Texas; and a white man murdered 10 black men in a supermarket in Buffalo, New York, whose obvious work expresses racism and anti-Semitism.
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"The most important strategies used by the left are usually targeting property. So arson, destructive, graffiti, these activities," Keneally said. "The goal and direct murder of two people is very important, and this is an escalation from these types of strategies."
However, Kenneley said political violence has changed in recent years. Some recent events have not shown clear evidence of motives for clear ideology on the right or left. Both men believed they had tried to assassinate Trump, she said. In Butler, Pennsylvania's first, the shooter also reportedly studied the incidents of then-President Biden. Another is in Trump's Mar-A-Lago property in Florida, involving a person Keneally mentioned, deeply involved in the content of the conspiracy.
Even the case of United Healthcare CEO's defendant shooter Luigi Mangione, though he has no clear referee in the hugs of some on the far left.
“What he particularly motivates is the wider anger on the American healthcare system,” she said. “When you look at the material and motivation he posted online, it’s a single issue motivator, more important than anything else.”
Many people tracking political violence and terrorism say ongoing conflict in Gaza continues to pose a threat within the U.S.
"I think the longer this war lasts, the more I pay attention to it will trigger extremist activity," said Jones of CSIS. He said someone from the political left has brought unsettling developments by targets Milgram and Lischinsky because of his religious background.
"Frankly, this is an exception," he said. "And I think it's hard for us to know if it's just an outlier or if we might see more of this in the future."