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By Amy Gallatin

Elias Rodriguez opened fire outside the Capital Jewish Museum in Washington, D.C., targeting attendees of a peaceful event hosted by the American Jewish Committee. Two young Israeli diplomats — Yaron Lischinsky and Sarah Milgrim — were murdered.

They weren’t soldiers.

They weren’t armed.

They weren’t in a war zone.

They were diplomats. They were peace builders. They were young. They were in love.

They were Jewish and/or thought to be Jewish.

And they were executed in the capital of the United States while walking out of a Jewish museum.

The shooter shouted “Free, Free Palestine.” A keffiyeh lay beside him as he was subdued. He was a known activist affiliated with radical far-left groups. The press will claim “no known motive” — but we know the motive.

We’ve seen it growing for years.

And we know exactly where it was nurtured.

This didn’t start in Gaza. Or with social media. Or on the streets of D.C.

This started on your campuses. In your classrooms. In your silence. In your complicity.

The Antisemitic Assembly Line You Built

You didn’t just allow this ideology to fester — you manufactured it.

You granted it tenure. You built departments around it.

You funneled Qatari and Jew-hating, anti-Israel donor dollars into it.

You treated Jewish identity as conditional, Zionism as a slur, and Israel’s very existence as a debate topic.

This didn’t begin with Hamas flags on your quads.

It began with Edward Said, whose Orientalism turned the Jewish state into a Western crime and taught students to see facts as colonial propaganda.

Said didn’t just critique Western imperialism — he recast Jews returning to their ancestral homeland as agents of empire rather than survivors of genocide.

He erased Jewish indigeneity, replaced history with “narrative,” and taught an entire generation that truth was subjective — unless it condemned the West and vilified Israel.

From that poisoned root came the dogma now standard in your classrooms:

• Jewish nationalism is “settler colonialism.”
• Palestinian terrorism is “decolonization.”
• Zionism is racism — even though no other indigenous people on earth are told their liberation is illegitimate.

Said’s legacy was not intellectual freedom. It was intellectual inversion.

He made it academically fashionable to support those who seek the destruction of Israel — and morally suspect to defend its existence.

From that poisoned root came the faculty who radicalized an entire generation:

• Joseph Massad, Columbia: compared Israel to Nazi Germany.
• Rashid Khalidi, Columbia: close associate of PLO leadership, regularly denies Israel’s right to exist.
• Hatem Bazian, Berkeley: founder of Students for Justice in Palestine and frequent speaker on “intifada as resistance.”
• Marc Lamont Hill, CUNY: called for a “Free Palestine from the river to the sea” at the UN.
• Noura Erakat, Rutgers: called Hamas’s October 7 massacre “an act of decolonization.”

These aren’t fringe cranks. These are full-time faculty with classroom authority over thousands of students. And your institutions treat them as intellectual heroes.

You gave them podiums. You gave them credibility.

And now you want to pretend the ideology that permeated through every department under the guise of “academic freedom” has nothing to do with Jewish blood on the pavement?

But this is not new.

The world’s most prestigious universities have a long history of gatekeeping Jewish belonging — first through explicit bans, then through quotas, and now through ideological litmus tests.

You once kept Jews out of classrooms.

Now, you let them in — but only if they check their identity at the door.

You refuse to adopt the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA) definition of antisemitism — not because it’s inaccurate, but because it makes your moral contortions impossible.

IHRA defines antisemitism to include denying the Jewish people their right to self-determination, and applying double standards to Israel that are not applied to any other nation.

But if you accepted that standard, you’d have to confront the fact that your faculty, your syllabi, and your student groups violate it every single day.

So instead, you reject it — and claim moral high ground while your campuses echo chants calling for genocide.

Graduation as a Platform for Hate

This month alone, your students used graduation ceremonies to spread antisemitic and anti-Israel propaganda with your full knowledge and — in some cases — approval. Here are just a few of the numerous examples:

• At George Washington University, a student hijacked the stage to accuse Israel of genocide and apartheid — a speech that was not approved but applauded by peers and left unchallenged by administration.
• At NYU’s Gallatin School, a graduate called for “resistance” to “settler colonial violence,” drawing cheers as she turned her cap into a platform of rage rather than learning.
• At Columbia, students waved Palestinian flags as names were read aloud, shouted “intifada,” and turned a solemn academic ritual into a political demonstration of hate.
• At UCLA, USC, Harvard, and Berkeley, graduates marched in keffiyehs, held signs calling Israel a genocidal regime, and used their moment of recognition to publicly endorse terror-sympathetic slogans.

You have created a generation of students who believe Jewish life is negotiable and Jewish death is justified — so long as it’s framed as “resistance,” no matter how misguided that framing is.

Silence That Screams

In the aftermath of the D.C. shooting, your institutions issued no statements.

No condemnation.

No letter to students expressing horror at the targeted murder of two individuals — Jewish and/or thought to be Jewish — on U.S. soil outside a Jewish museum.

No acknowledgment that they were targeted — for who they were and what they represented.

And we understand why.

The victims weren’t your students.

They weren’t part of your DEI-approved matrix of the oppressed.

Yaron was Israeli.

They were Zionist.

They were Jewish and/or perceived to be.

So you deemed them aligned with the oppressor narrative — and therefore, unworthy of grief.

But here’s what you’re too cowardly to say out loud:

You don’t see their murder as your responsibility — but it absolutely is.

Because while you didn’t pull the trigger, you filled the shooter’s head with the justification.

You taught a generation that Jews are colonizers. That Zionists are oppressors. That anti-Zionism is not antisemitism — even when it sounds exactly like it, acts exactly like it, and kills exactly like it.

You rewired moral clarity into moral confusion.

You blurred the line between protest and pogrom.

You rebranded centuries-old hate as progressive virtue.

Aided by a Media That Echoed Your Lies

Your allies in the media reinforced every lie:

• The 14,000 Gaza babies will die in 48 hours hoax — blasted in headlines, quietly retracted after the outrage spread.
• The Al-Ahli Hospital hoax — blamed on Israel, later proven to be a misfired Hamas rocket. Still cited at protests.
• Ongoing descriptions of Hamas as “militants,” of October 7 as “retaliation,” of Jewish self-defense as “aggression.”

Every falsehood feeds the fire. And every unchallenged falsehood becomes a new “truth” to justify more violence.

What You Built — and What You Must Tear Down

You’ve manufactured a generation that sees Jewish existence as optional.

You’ve trained students to treat Israel’s destruction as a moral imperative.

And now you want to wash your hands of the violence that ideology inspires?

We won’t let you.

Our Demands

Conduct full investigations into departments and faculty teaching distorted, anti-Jewish historical narratives.

• Fire faculty who justify terrorism, glorify Hamas, or excuse antisemitic violence.
• Shut down student groups that cross from speech into incitement — especially those with documented connections to terror sympathies.
• Enforce Title VI protections for Jewish students without exception.
• Restore academic integrity by removing politicized curricula and requiring balanced historical frameworks.

This is not a free speech issue.

It’s a hate speech issue.

It’s a terror-incubation issue.

And it’s your responsibility to fix it.

Clean house — or be remembered as the institutions that paved the path to murder.

If you have any hope of redemption, start now.

Start with truth. Start with accountability.

Or be remembered not for education — but for indoctrination, silence, and complicity in bloodshed.

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