Media Worries Murders of Israeli Embassy Staffers Could Hurt Palestinian Cause
“Do you worry that there will be a conflation though of the two? Those people who are speaking their mind who really care about what is happening in Gaza and those people who are like this person who did this horrific shooting who intend to do harm?”
Though one would think that the focal point of any sensible media coverage surrounding the murders of two Israeli Embassy staffers would be sympathy for the victims, more information on the antisemitic shooter, the hatred behind the movement he supports, and the plans to bring him to justice.
But it appears that some in the mainstream press have quickly moved on to something else that concerns them about the killings:
How they could potentially negatively impact pro-Hamas groups.
Incredibly, that’s where we are now, as evidenced by a news piece from the New York Times, which fretted about how the actions of the alleged gunman, Elias Rodriguez, would bring further scrutiny on what they called the “pro-Palestinian” movement:
The New York Times everyone! pic.twitter.com/jI5uGhp1WA
— Joe Concha (@JoeConchaTV) May 23, 2025
Even worse was an interview CNN‘s Sara Sidner conducted Friday with a witness from the scene of the Wednesday night shootings.
The witness, Jonathan Epstein, said he did not see the murders happen but heard the shots fired while he was in the Capital Jewish Museum, which the victims – Yaron Lischinsky and Sarah Lynn Milgrim – had left shortly before they were allegedly gunned down in cold blood by Rodriguez, who reportedly yelled “free, free Palestine!” as he was being detained, handcuffed, and taken away.
Epstein told Sidner that though he didn’t witness the actual shootings, he did see the alleged killer afterwards and looked into his eyes.
Sidner asked him what he saw as he looked the alleged shooter in the eyes, and that’s where things got interesting:
EPSTEIN: But what I saw in his eyes — I mean, I went to Columbia for grad school, and I saw the same thing in his eyes as I saw in the eyes of all the protesters at Columbia. Nothing different between him and them.
SIDNER: But they did not create this horrific shooting. They did not, you know, sort of —
EPSTEIN: Hmm.
SIDNER: They didn’t shoot —
EPSTEIN: They gave permission. They gave a permission, and they’ve called for this. They have called for intifada revolution, which is the same thing he yelled last night.
When Sidner asked Epstein if he would “worry” about “conflation” between who she said were “people… who really care about what is happening in Gaza and those people who are like this person,” Epstein was having none of it:
SIDNER: Do you worry that there will be a conflation though of the two? Those people who are speaking their mind who really care about what is happening in Gaza and those people who are like this person who did this horrific shooting who intend to do harm.
EPSTEIN: A conflation? I mean, they are calling for intifada. At Columbia University they call for intifada constantly. Not — they’re not quiet, they’re loud, they’re loud. You can hear it. They make recordings of themselves. So what’s the difference?
Watch:
WOW: A former Columbia University student who witnessed the brutal mu*der of two Israeli embassy staff members in D.C. last night says what he saw in the sh**ter’s eyes was no different from what he saw in the eyes of Columbia University pro-Hamas terrorist supporters. “They have… pic.twitter.com/su68wAtnHj
— RedWave Press (@RedWave_Press) May 22, 2025
Keep in mind that this is the same network that would take one rando carrying the Confederate flag at a packed Trump rally and conflate everyone there with that one person.
And yet Sidner is essentially cautioning a witness not to conflate other pro-Hamas agitators who have chanted “free, free Palestine!” and who have expressed support for an intifada with the one who was caught on video Wednesday night yelling “free, free Palestine!” and who police say told them he “did it for Gaza.”
A harsh dose of murderous reality doesn't draw the interest of this "journalist" – it activates her reflexive defensive instinct to protect those who called for and celebrate the murders. https://t.co/HdJBVQoctL
— Jason Beale (@jabeale) May 22, 2025
Here’s @CNN attempting to justify the murders of two Israeli embassy staff and to distance the murders from the constant chants of ‘globalise the intifada’ at American universities.
1/ It can never be justified
2/ the two are inseparably linkedThe legacy media is trash. https://t.co/WvSjkFZf65
— Angry Aunty (@auntyneville665) May 23, 2025
We are at a time for clarity and choice in America. Stand with evil, or against it. I would say that it’s stunning to see a CNN anchor wring her hands over how this murder might adversely affect the likability of bloodthirsty college protesters… but it’s not. https://t.co/aF7mWkND90
— Mark Davis (@MarkDavis) May 22, 2025
Sadly, he’s right.
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The question was not whether Big Media would wring their collective hands over the adverse effects of these murders on the ‘Palestinian’ cause, but would the bodies have even cooled off before they started.
“Media Worries”
That’s doubtful. Media schemes, plots, connives and conspires. Get’s angry, upset, lies and spins, but I don’t media believe worries.
Using my new and improved edit button, I correct the mistake in my last sentence as follows:
“Get’s angry, upset, lies and spins, but I don’t believe media worries.”
They worry that they may be losing their mojo and may lose control of the narrative.
“it’s stunning to see a CNN anchor wring her hands over how this murder might adversely affect the likability of bloodthirsty college protesters…”
“My biggest fear is that ISIS or some terrorist group like that would get ahold of a dirty bomb and explode it over a major city within the United States and kill tens of millions of people, because then the blowback against innocent Muslims would be absolutely terrible.” — Norm MacDonald
Hamas’s charter explicitly calls for committing genocide against Israeli Jews. The Gazan Arab invaders from Arabia (dishonestly re-branded as “Palestinians”) voted to empower and to sustain Hamas’s Islamofascist belligerence, predations and genocidal ambitions.
Any Dhimmi-crat who thinks that there is ideological and moral daylight between Hamas and Gazan “civilians” is a fool.
“Free ‘Palestine'” is inherently a genocidal chant.
“Free ‘Palestine'” is the new “Sieg Heil.”
The want to kill all Jews. Why else attack Jews who don’t live in Israel.
“ The want to kill all Jews.”
Which is what their charter says.
Correction: against all Jews. Reread what it says about when the last day will come & what has to happen first.
NAZI-Gaza media apologists.
Wearing a Hamas – Palestinian scarf is no different from wearing swastika insignia or armbands.
There’s little difference between shouting free, free Palestine! or shouting siege heil, pick your poison; Mohammad or Hitler.
The whole Palestinian identity, and the head scarf, are recent acquisitions from other cultures, to create a new so-called cultural identity that has never existed before. I forget where the headscarf came from, but it’s somewhere far away. Maybe Kuwait?
This is the same vile and evil song and dance that the despicable Dhimmi-crat media shills/lapdogs/trained seals engage in, every single time that a Muslim terrorist or a non-Muslim fellow traveler commits murders of and atrocities against Jews, Christians and Hindus.
The concern is never about belligerent and genocidal Islamofascism and Muslim supremacism against non-Muslims, and, the pathology-laden ideology that animates that behavior, but, perversely, how Muslims will allegedly be negatively impacted.
‘The media doth protest too much, methinks.’
All pro-Israel commentators on msm should immediately ask their questioner are they a Nazi, do they want to dismantle Israel, do you want to kill all Jews when confronted by pro-Arab sentiments,
Wait until the media is on the receiving end of one of these murderous events and then ask people who witnessed it what they think about media relations.
Then to rub salt in the wound, we’ll have Trump reclassify it as “workplace violence.”
defintion of journalist: failed fiction writer
Now that we’ve established that she is the spokeswoman for the terrorists, Epstein should have cleaned her clock by explaining exactly what the intifada entails. Let her and her audience chew on that.
You cannot hate the MSM enough. They are disgusting.
Well yeah, when the adherents of the genocidal philosophy of ‘free palistine/from the river to the.sea’ act on that belief by murdering two people in cold blood it absolutely is gonna reflect badly on those who share that philosophy, state it publicly, use it to intimidate/harass, shout it while illegally occupying public spaces, yell it while preventing ingress and egress from areas they took over. Y’all can’t pretend this is mere speech when illegal actions accompany it. Believe and express what you wish but the moment you commit an infraction then it is no longer about the speech but your actions and the actions you’ve potentially instigated.
Yep, one Confederate flag is infinitely worse and more telling, especially when waved by someone showing his face.
I’ve heard these same media idiots writing and saying “globalize the intifada” simply means spread awareness. I mean the intifada was not an “awareness “ campaign. These morons have and always will say anything to make Palestinians be the pure innocent victims they dream them to be. It’s like a victim fetish they have for this savage death cult. They just desperately want power and control and they know worshiping these violent morons will get one step closer to that. Whereas actually siding with the real victims forces them to have to think and acknowledge that they don’t know annything about what’s happening in the Middle East. That these issues are complicated and don’t fit neatly into their little narrative. Their control of the narrative gives them power they’ll never give that up. Just like when a race hoax gets dismantled they still say well the important issue is that racism still exists ; not that we ruined peoples lives accusing them falsely of it.
They’re actually doing the Norm MacDonald joke!
Murder of “Zionists” is their cause.
They don’t ask who is or isn’t a Zionist before murdering, assaulting or harassing Jews or vandalizing Jewish homes, businesses & institutions.
It’s rewarding when you can witness CNN setting the “journalism” bar even lower.
Ground-penetrating radar is outside my budget.
Sonar may be a viable option though.
“Media Worries Murders of Israeli Embassy Staffers Could Hurt Palestinian Cause”
I really, truly wish it would do that. I wish it would kill the so-called ‘Palestinian Cause’ as dead as Yaron Lischinsky and Sarah Lynn Milgrim are now. In a just world, their murderer would live only just long enough to see his act result in the exact opposite of his hateful ambition.
It would not be a conflation it would be a recognition that the “two” groups are in fact no different.