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Source: https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/may/27/secular-jihadi-brings-intifada-washington/
A Secular Jihadi Brings the Intifada to Washington
(Washington Times) Clifford D. May - On May 21, a college-educated terrorist fatally shot Yaron Lischinsky and Sarah Milgrim, two young Israeli Embassy staffers. He shot both in the back and then fired repeatedly when they fell to the ground. After that, he tossed away his weapon and strolled into the Capital Jewish Museum. When the police arrived, he pulled out a red keffiyeh and shouted, "Free, free Palestine!" Elias Rodriguez's red keffiyeh is associated with the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, a secular, Marxist-Leninist organization. The group receives financial and military backing from Tehran. Designated as a terrorist organization by the U.S. and EU, the PFLP supports "armed struggle" in alliance with Islamists. The annihilation of Israel is its primary goal. Rodriguez, the executioner of a defenseless young woman and an unarmed young man, regards himself as a revolutionary. Certain circles that claim to champion "diversity and inclusion" find it intolerable that one tiny Jewish state exists among the more than 20 Arab states and more than 50 Muslim states. Note, too, that no one who shouts "Free Palestine" means to suggest that people in Gaza and the West Bank should be guaranteed freedom of speech, press, religion and assembly, which are rights enjoyed by Jewish, Christian and Muslim Israelis. The writer is founder and president of the Foundation for Defense of Democracies.