Israeli Embassy staffers Yaron Lischinsky and Sarah Milgrim ID’d as couple fatally shot by terrorist who yelled ‘Free, free Palestine’ near DC’s Capital Jewish Museum
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The two Israeli Embassy staffers who were gunned down by a pro-Palestinian terrorist outside the Capital Jewish Museum on Wednesday night have been identified as “friends and colleagues” who fell in love and were just days away from getting engaged.
Yaron Lischinsky, 28, and Sarah Milgrim were fatally shot in the street as they left the American Jewish Committee’s ACCESS Young Diplomats Reception just after 9 p.m. in Washington, DC.
“Yaron and Sarah were our friends and colleagues. They were in the prime of their lives,” the Embassy of Israel to the USA wrote on X.
“This evening, a terrorist shot and killed them as they exited an event at the Capital Jewish Museum in DC. The entire embassy staff is heartbroken and devastated by their murder. No words can express the depth of our grief and horror at this devastating loss. Our hearts are with their families, and the embassy will be by their side during this terrible time.”
Lischinsky planned to propose to Milgrim during a trip next week in Jerusalem, Israel’s Ambassador to the US Yechiel Leiter said before their identities were made public.
Lischinsky bought a ring this week, Leiter added.
The couple both worked out of the Israeli Embassy in DC.
Lischinsky, an Israeli citizen, served as a research assistant in the embassy’s Political Department since September 2022 after serving three years in the Israel Defense Forces, according to his LinkedIn.
Milgrim, a Jewish-American who earned degrees from the University of Kansas and American University, had worked in the embassy’s Department of Public Diplomacy since November 2023, her online profile stated.
She was tasked with organizing missions and visits to Israel.
Wednesday’s occasion was the AJC’s largest annual event that brought together young Jewish professionals between the ages of 22 and 45 and the diplomatic community, according to the event listing .
The theme of the sold-out reception was “turning pain into purpose” and it was to focus on humanitarian diplomacy and navigating a response to the humanitarian crises in the Middle East and North Africa.
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The intifada has been globalized as a left wing activist from Chicago brings it to America.
The terrorist who committed the murder checks all the progressive boxes: BLM Protester, anti-corporate crusader who protested Amazon for "whitening Seattle" before apparently becoming obsessed with the AOC/Tlaib/Omar cause of hating Israel and its residents.
Sadly, this is really not anything new. There have always been time to time random killings of Jews in America at synagogues and Jewish community centers and so forth. The current political climate is making it worse.
Sick people see things in the media and on line and feel compelled to act.
One would have thought that the reality of the Holocaust would have brought most anti-Semitism to an end, but it didnt happen.
A proper education about The Holocaust would be helpful, but unfortunately....
Holocaust Education: A Mixed Bag in U.S. Schools
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A great movie called Freedom Writers shows Hillary Swank as a teacher of deprived inner city kids who start out being unruly and undisciplined, and she spends her own money to have them tour a Holocaust Museum, sit down at dinner tables with Holocaust survivors and has the student create a fair to raise money and brings the woman overseas who hid Anne Frank's family in her attic to address the students. She turned those kids into absolutely fabulous worthy students.
I'm astounded that I read in that linked article that Florida BANS The Diary of Anne Frank from its schools. Can you believe that?
from the NY Post comment section
What’s the point John? Is that comment supposed to justify the murder of two innocent people? Or are you trying to create some sort of equivalence between the post and a deadly terrorist attack?
There has always been anti-semites and anti-semitic violence. It well predates anything to do with the current war in Gaza or the protests of it.
Do you think right wing thoughts wishing all Palestinians would die is helping the current situation ?
1. I don't think anonymous comments on a NY Post story matter much at all to the current situation. 2. That's not even what the poster said.
Why is that comment an issue to to you, and Democratic congressman appearing at mass rallies where the crowd chants "globalize the intifada." That never seems to bother anyone on the left. I guess the fact that their supporters put on a Charlottesville pretty much every week for over a year with no response probably drove that point home.
Well, they've won. It's been globalized.
Of course it is.
He's literally saying Israel should be congratulated for not wiping Palestine off the face of the map, which is what has often happened when wars are fought. Israel is certainly showing more restraint towards innocent life than America did fighting its world wars.
Ok , I will slightly rephrase it, he is saying that Palestinians dont deserve to live , but the magnanimous Israelis let them.
Except for the 50,000 killed in Gaza.
YOU quoted it and still don't know what it stated.
Where does the comment state that?
‘Except for the 50,000 killed in Gaza. ‘
Other than Hamas propaganda spokesperson and Minister of Health, do you have any proof of this number being true?
...or that it includes 20,000 Hamas militants, or that most who died were because the militants used the civilians as human shields, hiding themselves and their weapons in and under schools, hospitals, mosques, UNWRA facilities and refugee camps, and although the Israelis WARNED the civilians to vacate where they were going to bomb (something the alliies did not bother to do for Dresden, or Hiroshima or Nagasaki) Hamas most likely wanted the civilians killed because it served their psychological method to cause sympathy for them and hatred of Israelis and Jews, and the bleeding hearts of the world are just eating it up as you can even see on this site.
I see the Democrats in house antisemite refuses to comment on this.
She can’t just say murder is wrong. Unbelievable
We all know that if a Jewish person murdered two muslims here in this country, she would be calling for InfantAda here in the US.
Didn't the squad claim silence is compliance?
At least she didn’t tell them to fuck off.
It would be a waste of time to ask Rashida Tlaib to comment on it as well. In fact, I even wonder about Bernie Sanders.
And THAT is why the oxygen thieves, Talib and Omar, are silent.