Of Course: The Left Begins Praising Antisemitic Assassin Elias Rodriguez

I can't wait to hear from Jake Tapper how I'm secretly to blame for this.

Far-left, anti-Israel Bronx activist group shockingly cheers accused DC Jewish Museum terrorist Elias Rodriguez, encourages more violence

A far-left, anti-Israel group in the Bronx disgustingly cheered the suspected terrorist accused of gunning down the two Israeli Embassy staffers in an antisemitic attack.

The Bronx Anti-War group said what alleged gunman Elias Rodriguez "did is the highest expression of anti-Zionism" and "We need more Elias Rodriguez in this world" in a pair of social media posts on Thursday.

The shocking statements quickly drew fire from local leaders, including Bronx Rep. Ritchie Torres.

"The Bronx Anti-War coalition, which has been harassing me since October 7th, has described the murderous targeting of Jews as 'the highest expression of anti-Zionism,'" Torres said in a statement.

"Violence is not a bug but a feature of virulent Anti-Zionism."

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The coalition is described as a Bronx-based group made up of working-class people who are anti-imperialist and led by people of color. They push for "resisting state violence while advancing decolonization."

The establishment left had better get its lunatics under control fast because the right is radicalizing. It's one thing if there's some random nut who kills someone. The problem is when the political establishment makes excuses for it or, in the case of Luigi Mangione, actually praises it.

Then that's not the act of a lone nut. That's the act of a soldier in your street army, and if you think the left is the only movement capable of fielding violent street militias, you illiterates should open a history book for once in your ignorant communist-scum lives.

The organization the newest leftwing assassin belonged to is funded by China and has contacts with Iran.

The terrorist who killed two Israeli embassy staffers was once affiliated with the Party for Socialism and Liberation, a leftist group linked to Chinese Communist Party funding networks that have been repeatedly contacted by sanctioned Iranian state media, according to a report.

Elias Rodriguez, 30, of Chicago, was detained by police on suspicion of murdering Yaron Lischinsky, 30, and Sarah Milgrim, 28 -- two Israeli embassy staffers -- on Wednesday night in Washington, D.C. The couple was shot at close range. According to police, the terrorist shouted "Free Palestine" while being taken into custody.

The shooter was quickly identified in a picture on a 2017 article posted on LiberationNews.org, the media wing of the Party for Socialism and Liberation (PSL), where he was at a protest holding an anti-capitalist sign from the ANSWER Coalition. In the article, which was deleted after the attack, the shooter was quoted and described as "from the Party for Socialism and Liberation."

PSL posted a statement distancing itself from the shooter, claiming the group and the shooter only had a "brief association" that ended in 2017.

"We reject any attempt to associate the PSL with the DC shooting," the group posted to X. "Elias Rodriguez is not a member of the PSL. He had a brief association with one branch of the PSL that ended in 2017. We know of no contact with him in over 7 years. We have nothing to do with this shooting and do not support it."

According to a report by Network Contagion Research Institute (NCRI), both PSL and ANSWER leaders have ties to foreign governments, including China, Iran, and Russia. The report states that ANSWER operates under the fiscal sponsorship of the Progress Unity Fund (PUF), which has financial and personnel ties to Neville Roy Singham, a pro-CCP financier in Shanghai.

PSL and ANSWER are sister organizations, and their leaders hold overlapping roles in Singham's network, including with CODE PINK and The People's Forum, according to NCRI.

Both PSL and ANSWER are radical leftist organizations that have organized anti-Israel protests and mobilization efforts.

Speaking of:

I missed this earlier this week: An "anti-natalist," "pro-mortalist" advocate -- that means an environmental extremist who wants people to die and stop having babies so that the human race self-terminates -- bombed an IVF clinic this week.

If you saw this story and then saw it quickly disappear: It's because the establishment left refuses to condemn soldiers in its terrorist army.

Reddit Bans Fringe Anti-Humanity Group After Attack on Palm Springs IVF Clinic

The 25-year-old suspect in the blast, Guy Edward Bartkus, believed humans shouldn't exist.

An explosion outside a fertility clinic in Palm Springs, California, killed one person and injured four others Saturday morning in what the FBI has called an act of terrorism. The suspect in the bombing, 25-year-old Guy Edward Bartkus, was the lone death from the blast, and it seems apparent he held anti-human views. Now Reddit has banned a subreddit tied to the suspect's ideology.

Bartkus is believed to be the person who detonated a bomb at the Palm Springs American Reproductive Center, which offers services like IVF, because he was aligned with the pro-mortalist and anti-natalist movements--the idea that humans should not continue to procreate. Bartkus appears to have been posting to various subreddits, including r/Efilism, which advocated for violence. Reddit has now banned r/Efilism for violating its terms of service.

"Violence has no place on Reddit," a spokesperson for the platform told Gizmodo over email. "Our sitewide rules strictly prohibit any content that encourages, glorifies, incites, or calls for violence. In line with these rules, we are removing any instances of the suspect's manifesto or recordings and hashing to prevent reupload. We're also closely monitoring the communities on our platform to ensure compliance with our rules."

Proponents of Efilism (the word "life" spelled backwards) are often known as anti-natalists, which is a more common name for the ideology, though Bartkus described himself as pro-mortalist in his 30-minute audio manifesto. Anti-natalism is a philosophy that advocates for people not to procreate, while pro-mortalists go beyond those anti-natalist ideas to advocate for death in all forms under the theory that because life is suffering it's ethical to end your own life and even those around you in the process.

Bartkus posted an audio file to his website explaining why he was targeting the clinic, filled with logical inconsistencies and general incoherence. Bartkus said he wanted to begin "sterilizing this planet of the disease of life," but mentioned the recent suicide of his best friend affecting him deeply. Bartkus wrote on his personal website, "It's just too much of a loss when there's nobody else you really relate to significantly." He was clearly struggling with personal issues beyond whatever philosophy to which he was supposedly swearing allegiance. That website has now been taken offline.

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