geneva_convenienceMay 22, 2025

Two Israeli embassy staffers shot dead in Washington

https://lemmy.ml/post/30483101

Two Israeli embassy staffers shot dead in Washington - Lemmy

The shooting took place late Wednesday outside the Capital Jewish Museum, which was hosting an American Jewish Committee event at the time of the incident. US Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem announced the deaths in an X post, saying, “We are actively investigating and working to get more information to share.” The suspect, identified as 30-year-old Elias Rodriquez of Chicago, Illinois, “chanted 'Free, free Palestine,’ while in custody,” she added.

Show threadTsarVulMay 22, 2025
Adventurism sets back this movement of ours. This is what a revolutionary spirit without theory to back it up does. ADL is already using this as casus belli to silence pro-Palestine voices. CIA and Mossad are popping champagne bottles as we speak. And all they lost were two ultimately expendable Zionist bureaucrats. This is a fucking disaster.
Show threadAntiOutsideAktionMay 22, 2025
From where has it been set back?
Show threadTsarVul
At the most immediate level, law enforcement presence will be increased in the DC area. Indirectly, this will further propagate the rhetoric of the Israeli state that antizionism is antisemitism. They’re already trying to spin this guy as a raging antisemite.
May 22, 2025 at 9:53pmWeb
Show thread☂️-May 22, 2025
so the solution is doing nothing instead? because they are already cracking down on (and ignoring) peaceful protests.
Show threadTsarVulMay 22, 2025

Let me give you a hypothetical. Imagine that these murders happened just as they did. But now imagine that Palestine was not brought up. The guy just stayed silent. The 2 Zionists are dead all the same, but there is plausible deniability that this was not done in the name of Palestine. Like I’m saying, there is a more effective way to crash out, if you are going to crash out. Furthermore, you shouldn’t be crashing out on an individual level! When will we have it sink in that there is no individual solution to systemic issues? Organize!

Learn from your enemy. Many Israeli officials still claim to this day is denying the genocide. It’s not because they think you’ll believe it. It’s about plausible deniability.

Show thread☂️-May 22, 2025
still a net positive.
Show threadTsarVulMay 22, 2025
The death of 2 shitbags comes at the inconvenience of many more revolutionary voices. I predict it will not be. Because this was not a revolutionary act. This was adventurism.
Show thread☂️-May 22, 2025

not really. these revolutionary voices will be (and are) silenced anyway as soon as they represent any danger.

the palestine thing is incidentally a great example. adventurism won’t save us, but it isnt hurting in this case. small net positive.

Show threadTsarVulMay 22, 2025

I respectfully disagree. So does Lenin if anyone cares: www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/…/01.htm

I get it though. Reading theory can be hard.

Lenin: Revolutionary Adventurism

Revolutionary Adventurism

Show thread☂️-May 22, 2025
violence is not the same as adventurism.
Show threadTsarVulMay 22, 2025
Spin the definition however you want. I have made my point. Change comes from class struggle. Not individual spontaneous action.
Show thread☂️-May 22, 2025

Change comes from class struggle. Not individual spontaneous action.

i implied this a few times throughout my comments

Show threadTsarVulMay 23, 2025
I’m glad.
Show threadAntiOutsideAktionMay 23, 2025
Not an answer to the question I asked.
Show threadBrainInABoxMay 23, 2025
That is very much not what you were asked