Meet the Left-Wing Groups and Operatives Rallying Behind Jewish Museum Shooter Elias Rodriguez
30th May 2025
A radical student group at Brandeis University. Members of a socialist organization affiliated with House “Squad” members. The treasurer of a Democratic super PAC funded heavily by George Soros. These are just some of the figures and groups calling to “free” Elias Rodriguez, the Chicago man police say confessed to the Washington, D.C., murders of two Israeli diplomats.
Twenty-one organizations, along with Democratic activist Kamau Franklin, signed an open letter in support of Rodriguez organized by the Tariq El-Tahrir Youth and Student Network. It calls Rodriguez’s shooting of Israeli diplomats Sarah Milgrim and Yaron Lischinsky outside of the Capital Jewish Museum “fully justified,” “eminently defensible,” and “morally righteous.” It also urges readers to “give pause to the zionists” and “GLOBALIZE THE INTIFADA,” a popular rallying cry among student radicals on Ivy League campuses like Columbia University and Harvard University. One signee, Unity of Fields, has been involved in the Columbia protests.
Another signatory is the Liberation Caucus of the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA)—”Squad” members Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D., N.Y.), Rashida Tlaib (D., Mich.), and Greg Casar (D., Texas) are members of DSA, the largest socialist group in the country. Franklin, who serves as treasurer of the Black Voters Matter Action PAC, a Democratic group that received $2.4 million from Soros and the Soros-funded Democracy PAC, signed the letter and promoted it on his Twitter page. So did the Brandeis Jewish Bund, a self-described “Anti-Zionist” group at Brandeis University, a school founded by Jewish Americans to address anti-Semitism in the American education system. Another signee, Bronx Anti War, was cofounded by Janet Goodman-Clarke, a member of the Soros-funded Jewish Voice for Peace.