Influential Palestinian author callously calls DC Jewish Museum victims genocide cheerleaders
A prominent Palestinian author and activist callously ripped the two victims of the DC Jewish Museum shooting as “genocide cheerleaders” in a series of hateful tweets — saying she was shocked the bloodshed hadn’t “happened sooner.”Susan Abulhawa, who served as the director of the controversial 2023 “Palestine Writes” festival at the University of Pennsylvania, fired off numerous posts that apparently supported suspected shooter Elias Rodriguez’s actions just hours after he allegedly killed two Israeli embassy staffers.Yaron Lischinsky, 30, and Sarah Lynn Milgrim, 26, who were engaged to be married, were attending a Jewish conference of the American Jewish Committee focused on fostering peace when they were killed on Wednesday.“Now we’re supposed to feel bad for two genocide cheerleaders after watching these colonizer baby killers slaughter people by the hundreds every day for two years,” Abulhawa wrote on X the following day.“I’ve seen the inside of too many children’s skulls to give a crap about the human garbage who get off on mass murder,” she raged.Earlier that day, Abulhawa, who has written extensively about Palestinians living under Israeli occupation, indicated that the shooting was retribution for the pain Israel has been inflicting on Gaza since Oct.7, 2023.
“Natural logic: when governments fail to hold Israel accountable for an actual holocaust being committed before our very eyes, no genocidal Zionist should be safe anywhere in the world,” Abulhawa wrote.“What Mr.Rodriguez did should come as no surprise.
In fact, I’m surprised it has not happened sooner.Human beings with a conscience literally cannot bear to witness such evil day and day out being inflicted upon the bodies, minds, and futures of an utterly defenseless people, by such a hateful, racist, colonial state.”The posts drew widespread backlash, with numerous other users calling on the FBI to investigate what they say was a call to violence.“@FBI th...