“Don’t blame me, I voted for Hamas.”
Elias Rodriguez opened fire outside the Capital Jewish Museum, killing two, a soon to be engaged Israeli couple, and wounded two others, but few media outlets reported his political orientation and his background. Or the outpouring of support from the anti-Israel Left.
In 2023, stickers reading “Exterminate Zionists” and the name of the Party for Socialism and Liberation appeared at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. Rodriguez had been a member of the affiliated University of Illinois at Chicago and had been a member of the Party for Socialism and Liberation. According to Rodriguez’s manifesto, he became radicalized 11 years ago and was convinced that killing Israelis, Americans and Jews was the right thing to do. That was the same year that he was being quoted as taking part in protest rallies and speaking on behalf of the Party for Socialism and Liberation.
PSL claims that Elias Rodriguez only had a “brief association” with the Communist group, but even according to their timeline, the terrorist was with the organization for at least 3 years.
And likely more.
Rather than disavowing him, members of the pro-terrorist movement cheered his crimes.
BREAKING: The Bronx “Anti-War” Coalition just called Elias Rodriguez’s execution of two innocent people in D.C. the “highest expression of anti-Zionism.”
This group leads the pro-Palestinian rallies in NYC. Don’t ever try to tell me this movement isn’t fundamentally violent. pic.twitter.com/D7zzkHQHNx
— Eyal Yakoby (@EYakoby) May 22, 2025
Palestine Action US, which currently uses the Jihadist name ‘Unity of Fields’, distributed an illustrated version of the D.C. killer’s manifesto under his headline of “Escalate for Gaza”. It described the murder of a Jewish couple attending an event at a Jewish museum as “the rightful execution of the two nazi pigs” and hailed “the resistance that Elias will inspire.“
Rep. Rashida Tlaib had previously held an anti-Israel event featuring Palestine Action US, the Campaign for Palestinian Rights, Jewish Voice for Peace and the Islamist group EMGAGE.
The Bronx Anti-War Coalition declared correctly that “what Elias Rodriguez did is the highest expression of anti-Zionism” and “we need more Elias Rodriguez in this world.” Its rallies have featured banners with pictures of Islamic terrorist leaders and calls for joining Iran’s ‘Axis of Resistance’.
PSL tried to deny its link to the murderer, but did not condemn it. Rodriguez was simply implementing the PSL’s enthusiastic support for the mass murder of Jews, and the Communist terrorist switched from cheering the attacks from the sidelines to actually engaging in them.
The Party for Socialism and Liberation is a Communist party with Trotskyist roots. Its most publicly visible face are the anti-war ANSWER coalition protests after 9/11. After Oct 7, PSL focused heavily on anti-Israel rallies. At a rally after the Hamas Oct 7 attacks, a PSL speaker celebrated that Hamas had “liberated an area that is actually larger than the Gaza Strip.”
He joked about the Nova festival massacre that “there was sort of rave or desert party where they were having a great time, until the resistance came in electrified hang-gliders.”
Participants gleefully chanted “700” in reference to the then reported number of Israeli victims.
One of Rodriguez’s reposts was titled, “Don’t Blame Me, I Voted For Hamas.”
He also reposted speeches by former Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah along with Iranian slogans such as “De@th 2 Amerikkka” and “Death to Israel”.
PSL’s official response on Oct 7 described the Hamas atrocities as “a counter-offensive by Palestinian resistance forces” and argued that the “actions of the resistance over the course of the last day is a morally and legally legitimate response.” And it declared that, “resistance to apartheid and fascist-type oppression is not a crime!”
Rodriguez’s manifesto was titled “Escalate for Gaza. Bring the war home.” That’s been the premise of the pro-terrorist rallies, including by his old organization.
While PSL may seem obscure to most Americans, its presidential candidate appeared on the ballots of 7 states, including California, New York and Florida, Its presidential candidate Claudia De La Cruz however works for an organization funded by a Maoist millionaire operating out of Communist China which has been accused of acting as a front of the regime.
Like PSL, the People’s Forum described Oct 7, as an “unprecedented liberation struggle” by “Palestinian resistance factions”.
“We give our heart, we give our life, we give our blood to the Palestinian people,” Manolo De Los Santos, a founding director of The People’s Forum declared at a pro-terrorist rally in Manhattan. “We will use whatever we have in our hands. A rock or something else. We will defend the Palestinian people.”
The anti-Israel Left is rapidly rationalizing and even celebrating the murder of a Jewish couple because that is what they intended all along. They were never going to draw the line at blocking highways while glorifying Hamas. The goal was to get useful idiots like Elias to carry out attacks.
Why did a Latino man travel across the country to murder a Jewish couple? Because he had been indoctrinated into believing that it was the right thing to do by a network of terrorist groups pretending to be “pro-palestinian” or concerned about “human rights”, when what they actually wanted was a pretext for street and then terrorist violence and finally a revolutionary takeover.
While America has seen numerous Islamic terrorist attacks, the rate of individual Communist attacks has declined. The red-green alliance between leftists and Islamists is partly a means of revitalizing the terrorist capabilities of the Left. That’s why they’re celebrating Rodriguez’s murders because they’re not an outlier, the murders are where they want America to go.
somehistory says
Jesus Christ foretold (as a part of the “sign” for which His disciples had asked), “due to the increasing of lawlessness, the love of the greater number will cool off.” (Matthew 24)
Just as He warned, so it is happening. Each day brings more evil …”lawlessness”….out into the open where it is celebrated and the murderous lawbreakers are haled as heroes.
He also said, “Each man’s hand will be against his brother.”
Americans wanting fellow Americans to be murdered by their fellow Americans. Just an example.
tgusa says
Bronx Anti-War Coalition sez back shooting bushwhacking murder is really good. The left gets off on it. Anti war, pro murder. What a surprise…said no one.
somehistory says
The perp’s father was invited by a dem rep, who doesn’t like Trump, to the President’s speech.. His name is Garcia, I believe, nickname “chuy.”
Next, they’ll be giving medals to back-shooters.
tgusa says
The left has an abundance of lunatics. This will inspire more. Situational awareness is critical. I will give you a chocolate bar if you shoot straight in the coming conflagration.
somehistory says
My eyesight is failing, so I may not earn that chocolate.
James Lincoln says
somehistory,
Hope that you are receiving the very finest care from ophthalmology.
God bless.
somehistory says
Thank you, James. They are doing all they can do with the eyes they are working with. There has just been so much damage from the tears and operations to repair the tears. The doctors say my eyes look ‘good’….but it seems my right one is still getting worse over time. Too much scarring from the detachment.
thank you for your concern. I really appreciate it.
tgusa says
Dad has a lot more on his mind today than not liking Trump. Dad will have to live with the fact that he raised a cowardly cold blooded murderer for the rest of his life. Glad I’m not him.
somehistory says
The dem touted the father as a great guy, family man, values, etc.
Not a very good example of a son, however. If I was the mother of this murderer, I would dig a hole and crawl in.
Cynthia says
The communists and Islamists both want to destroy America from within. What better way than to pit Americans against each other.
These “activists” are useful idiots. This virtual signaling does nothing to help any situation. Why don’t these virtuous people work for helping the homeless, food for American children, veterans?
terry says
Out the trigger fingers of the rulers and their zombie criminals that bribe and con these actors to act.
Wellington says
Seconding what tgusa stated above, it is the Left which is responsible for the violence in modern America. Of course the lie still persists among Leftists and many clueless moderates that the Right is responsible for most violence in America but this is indeed a lie.
Congressman Scalise back in 2017 was almost killed by a Bernie Sanders supporter. Supreme Court Justice Kavanaugh was stalked by a Leftist. Both wannabe assassins of Trump last year were Leftists. Luigi Mangione who cold-bloodedly shot Brian Thompson in the back is a Leftist. And now this most recent example of Leftist violence with the killing of a Jewish couple in DC by this total loser from Chicago.
Leftists have also done their best to shut down free speech on college campuses and have regularly, since the slaughter in Israel on October 7th, 2023 by the monsters of Hamas, tried to intimidate Jewish students in sundry ways. Though I want nothing to do with the Far Right (and the biased MSM and the wretched excuse for a political party which is the present Democratic Party of the USA consistently call mainstream conservatives Far Right and this too is a lie), they are of little consequence. The KKK, Aryan Nation, Neo-Nazis, etc. are losers but they have been completely marginalized and are virtually absent in the media, academia, the political realm, et al. Currently in America it is the people on the Left who are the true threat to freedom and anyone averring that it is people on the Right is either a liar or an ignoramus.
࿗Infidel࿘ says
Essentially, communist sentiment is stronger in the US today than it ever was in history. Watching the glorification of violence, like we saw earlier wrt Luigi Mangione and in 2020 w/ the BLM rioters totally demonstrates that. Problem starts in our schools, where kids are taught to be Marxists, and there is no counter-programming at home where parents are too busy holding down 2 or more jobs
What the DOJ is now doing w/ Harvard is good, but it needs to be followed up w/ action in all states (since education is going back to the states) to ensure that schools purge their faculty of Marxists, if they want to keep getting paid. Yeah, there will be resistance to that in Blue states, like NY, NJ, CA, IL…. but as we all know, money talks, even to Marxists. Figure out ways to sabotage schools that insist on remaining Marxist indoctrination centers
somehistory says
A “judge” has stepped in and said the President can’t keep Harvard from bringing in international students.
This will keep happening until the Supremes decide to halt all of the judges playing dictator.
Or Congress puts an end to it.
Westman says
Very accurate, Wellington, and well said.
James Lincoln says
Excellent – and 100% accurate – posts regarding leftism by Wellington and Infidel.
Kepha says
When people say that “anti-Zionism is not anti-Semitism”, I count the spoons. Long ago, I started the same things when a Leftist tells me he’ll fight to the death for my right to say something with which I disagree.
The “anti-colonialist” and “anti-Zionist (but not anti-Semitic)” crew somehow start their cries of “baby killers!” whenever someone posts a bunch of celebrating Chasidim; and, worse, often attack people in Chasidic garb. Yet the Chasidim are generally anti-Zionist. From this, it is clear that our anti-colonialists go after people who are most visibly Jewish.
Some things I’ve seen on FB discussing the ME have lots of comment from overseas. Some of the Polish comments I’ve run through Google translate make it clear that if Israel packed up and left its land, its former Polish neighbors would not welcome them back (and I’m sure the Israeli majority that is Mizrahi would find no welcome in the Muslim world now that it’s forgotten how to play the good Dhimmi).
somehistory says
These are the people who *represent* lawless murderers.
https://www.glennbeck.com/glenn-tv/sinister-sabotage-trumps-deportations?utm_source=glenn-dailyPM&utm_medium=
tgusa says
From your link. “When Democrats lose elections, their strategy apparently isn’t to win back voters”
They dont need to win back voters. Those voters dont exist. This is their strategy.
https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4318775/posts
It is not just Georgia it is countrywide.
somehistory says
Beck focuses on the fact that they are going against what the people want. After the first minutes of his program, he shows clips of the pols who went to the detention center in NJ, and the charges against the fool wearing red, shoving, etc. and what her lying companion said about ICE and the videos being fabricated.
He speaks with Tom Homan….and their conversation is not about how these reps can get votes.
tgusa says
Organized vote fraud is the number one threat to our Republic. Fix that and we fix many things. If anyone talks about election reform the left squeal like stuck pigs. They telegraph what they are doing by opposing it. It really is that simple.
somehistory says
tgusa, did you listen to the entire program? It’s way more than about *voter fraud.*
Beck began by talking about dems and votes, but he was only asking that because what they are doing….like trying to free murderers, rapists, drug smugglers, etc., are all against what the public wants.
Then, he got into the meat of the issue….the chaos they are trying to cause. and the lies they are telling to help cause it.
And, a judge has dismissed the case against the mayor of Trenton.
࿗Infidel࿘ says
Not at all surprised by this story. Just like communists cheered what Luigi Mangione did, they are similarly cheering for Elias Rodriguez
Just like we had Joe McCarthy back in the 50s – and all his accusations against people of being Communist weren’t false, similarly some Senator should have a committee hunting down pro “Palestinians”, and investigate them for antisemitism. Yeah, hating Jews may well be within the First Amendment, but since hate crimes are a thing (something I actually don’t agree w/), throw the book at them for that. Subject them to public humiliation and cancellation (mirroring what happened to US conservatives in 2020) so that they either reform, or leave the US for a more attractive antisemitic country, such as Britain or Canada
tgusa says
It isn’t the mythical white supremacists doing it so to the left, who cares? If mainstream conservatives were as vicious and nasty as the left wants to portray us we would be burning down their refuges and shooting any of them that tried to escape.
Walter Sieruk says
That vicious band of ruffians who are pro-Hamas ,anti-Israel who cheered with gladness at the news about the murder that nice Jewish couple , By their cheering had exposed their own malice-filled hearts and wicked spirit.
Likewise, this is a appropriate time to remember that the Bible informs its reader in Proverbs 17:5. “He who is glad at calamity will not go unpunished.” [N.K.J.V.]
tgusa says
How does anti Israel activist equate with the cold blooded murder of random people in front of a museum in America? The message is, they will gun you down, no matter where you are in the world, no matter what your views or opinions may be. The left have ventured in to uncharted territory.
Noah Andeark says
Doug Hooper and Awad Niwad, two of the chief muslims at the terror org CAIR celebrated by having mutual butt sex, with some oral thrown in for some good ol’ mohammedan action.