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Israeli embassy staffers shooting or Capital Jewish Museum murders? To some, a few words can make a big difference.

JL;DR SUMMARY The recent tragic shooting outside the Capital Jewish Museum in Washington, D.C., where two Israeli embassy employees were killed, has sparked a contentious debate over the nature of the attack. A way out west there was a fella, fella I want to tell you about, fella by the name of Jeff Lebowski. At least, that was the handle his lovin' parents gave him, but he never had much use for it himself. This Lebowski, he called himself the Dude. Now, Dude, that's a name no one would self-apply where I come from. But then, there was a lot about the Dude that didn't make a whole lot of sense to me. And a lot about where he lived, likewise. But then again, maybe that's why I found the place s'durned innarestin'.

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Jewish CommunityAmerican Jewish CommitteeAnti ZionismJewish MuseumJonathan GreenblattPolitical ViolenceMedia PortrayalCapital Jewish Museum Shooting

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Washington D.C., Washington DC, United States
"Following the fatal shooting last week of two employees of the Israeli embassy outside the Capital Jewish Museum in Washington D.C. on May 21, Rabbi Noam Marans of the American Jewish Committee offered a prayer."
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States
"Our modern American Jewish chronicle of pain has a new locus: Pittsburgh, Poway, Monsey, Jersey City, and now Washington, it read in part."
Poway, California, United States
"Our modern American Jewish chronicle of pain has a new locus: Pittsburgh, Poway, Monsey, Jersey City, and now Washington, it read in part."
Monsey, New York, United States
"Our modern American Jewish chronicle of pain has a new locus: Pittsburgh, Poway, Monsey, Jersey City, and now Washington, it read in part."
Jersey City, New Jersey, United States
"Our modern American Jewish chronicle of pain has a new locus: Pittsburgh, Poway, Monsey, Jersey City, and now Washington, it read in part."
Brooklyn, New York, United States
"And innumerable antisemitic attacks, too many to list, in Brooklyn, on campuses, and beyond."
United States
"A man in Illinois attacked a six-year-old and his mother, both Palestinian American, and killed the boy in 2023 soon after Hamass 7 October attack on Israel, and three Palestinian students were shot in Vermont in November 2023."
Vermont, United States
"A man in Illinois attacked a six-year-old and his mother, both Palestinian American, and killed the boy in 2023 soon after Hamass 7 October attack on Israel, and three Palestinian students were shot in Vermont in November 2023."
Pennsylvania, United States
"Like a few other commentators, Greenblatt linked the murders to the recent Passover firebombing at the official residence of Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro by a suspect who said he held the Jewish politician responsible for the deaths of Palestinians."
Paris, Île-de-France, France
"A better comparison, Podhoretz wrote, was to the 2015 attack on the Hypercacher supermarket in Paris, when radical Islamists shot and killed four Jews at a kosher supermarket."

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