21 Shots and then "Free, Free Palestine"

The nexus between the radical left and Islamists was always going to end in bloodshed on the streets of Western cities

“Free Palestine” is not about the war in Gaza. Not one bit.

If it was, Yaron Lischinsky would be getting down on one knee to ask his girlfriend Sarah Milgrim for her hand in marriage next week.

Instead, the Jewish couple lay in a pool of blood on the Washington DC pavement.

They were shot dead at point blank range outside the Jewish Museum around 11am Thursday Australian time.

The shooter, 31-year-old Elias Rodriguez shot them to the ground, and then stood over them as they attempted to crawl away, firing almost two dozen more bullets into them.

When he was done, he waved a keffiyeh and chanted “Free, Free Palestine”.

With his hands still smelling of gun powder, he chanted the phrase in that melodic way you hear at pro-Palestinian rallies every weekend in Sydney and in New York and in London.

“Free, free Palestine. Free, free Palestine.”

It’s a demonic chorus. Hell’s equivalent of a church hymn.

But the incantation has nothing to do with freeing Palestinians, and everything to do with slaughtering Jews.

It’s not sung as a chant aimed at ending suffering. It’s sung as a shared, communal fantasy about igniting a second Jewish holocaust.

The pro-Palestinian mob would chant “gas the Jews” - indeed they did outside the Opera House on October 9, 2023 - except that such honesty would dismantle who they’re pretending to be.

They pretend to be on the side of the downtrodden. They pretend to be on the side of righteousness. “Free Palestine” serves only as a fig leaf to (barely) cover their bloodlust.

Elias Rodriguez, whom Beelzebub now anxiously waits, is a member of the Party for Socialism and Liberation.

The nexus between the radical left and Islamists was always going to end in bloodshed on the streets of Western cities.

Rodriguez’s entire life has demonstrated one simple truth - the step from supporting terrorism to becoming a terrorist is not a large one.

The only surprise is that a member of the “Free, free Palestine” coven hasn’t done something like this sooner.

The day before the shooting, Rodriguez wrote …