My peaceful hand was met with murder in woke terror attack on Jewish Museum

Late Wednesday, two Israeli embassy staffers — Sarah Milgrim and Yaron Lischinsky, young diplomats in their 20s, soon to be engaged — were brutally shot to death in Washington, DC, after attending an event hosted by the American Jewish Committee for early-career foreign service officers.I am gutted.That event is one I helped start nearly 20 years ago, when I served as AJC’s regional director.The goal was simple: to promote understanding and reconciliation among rising diplomats from around the world, even from countries with historical tensions.It was a model of bridge-building and peaceful coexistence.

Now, it’s a crime scene.Initial reports suggest the alleged assailant is affiliated not with a jihadist network, but with a radical socialist group called the Party for Socialism and Liberation.It has previously endorsed violent anti-Israel protests and calls for “armed resistance” against what it calls Western imperialism.This wasn’t an isolated outburst — it was a worldview made flesh.What we’re witnessing is the deadly consequence of an ideological framework that categorizes people and nations into a rigid binary: oppressors and oppressed.I warned in my 2022 book “Woke Antisemitism” of a disturbing trend I’d observed in progressive activist spaces.Increasingly in these circles, I saw that Jews — especially Zionist Jews — were being cast as inherently privileged and oppressive.It didn’t take long for that slander to go from words to threats, as we’ve seen on our college campuses and city streets in the last two years.Now it’s manifesting as murder.Since the Oct.

7 Hamas attacks on Israel, the alignment between radical leftist movements and Islamist ideologies — what analysts call the “Red-Green Alliance” — has only deepened.Together, they’ve created a powerful, combustible narrative: that Israel is the world’s ultimate oppressor, and anything done in resistance against its supposed crimes is justified.This narrative ...