Suspect in murder of Israeli Embassy couple linked to organization that called Oct. 7 attack 'legitimate'

The antheral who allegedly killed 2 Israeli Embassy employees extracurricular the Capital Jewish Museum past Wednesday nighttime successful Washington, D.C., was linked to the Party for Socialism and Liberation, which praised the Oct. 7, 2023 panic onslaught successful the hours aft it happened. 

Elias Rodriguez, 31, was charged with 2 counts of first-degree murder, execution of overseas officials, and respective firearm-related counts. The Department of Justice is weighing whether it volition invoke the decease punishment successful the case. Rodriguez flew from Chicago, Illinois, wherever helium lives, to allegedly transportation retired the shooting.

The shooting happened during an American Jewish Committee lawsuit the nighttime of May 21, which brought Jewish professionals and members of the diplomatic assemblage together.

Yaron Lischinsky, 31, and Sarah Milgrim, 26, some died aft the shooting. Lischinsky and Milgrim were engaged. Both individuals were employed by the Israeli Embassy.

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FBI agents enactment astatine the transgression country wherever 2 Israeli Embassy unit members were killed arsenic they were extracurricular an lawsuit astatine the Capital Jewish Museum successful Washington, D.C., connected Wednesday, May 21, 2025. (Kyle Mazza/Anadolu via Getty Images)

Following the shooting, the Party for Socialism and Liberation said successful a station connected X that Rodriguez had a "brief" affiliation with the relation that ended successful 2017.

"We cull immoderate effort to subordinate the PSL with the DC shooting. Elias Rodriguez is not a subordinate of the PSL. He had a little relation with 1 subdivision of the PSL that ended successful 2017. We cognize of nary interaction with him successful implicit 7 years," the radical said. "We person thing to bash with this shooting and bash not enactment it."

The radical believes "the lone solution to the deepening situation of capitalism is the socialist translation of society."

"Driven by an insatiable appetite for ever greater profits careless of societal cost, capitalism is connected a collision people with the radical of the satellite and the satellite itself. Imperialist war; deepening unemployment and poverty; deteriorating wellness care, lodging and education; racism; favoritism and unit based connected sex and intersexual orientation; biology destruction—all are inevitable products of the capitalist strategy itself," its website states.

In an article successful the Party for Socialism and Liberation's authoritative paper that has since been deleted, Elias Rodriguez was identified arsenic a subordinate of the enactment erstwhile talking astir Amazon's Seattle, Washington, presence.

"The wealthiness that Amazon has brought to Seattle has not been shared with its Black residents," Rodriguez said. "[Amazon’s] whitening of Seattle is structurally racist and a nonstop information to each workers who unrecorded successful that city. So bash we successful Chicago and each crossed the state privation a federation of cities dominated and occupied by monolithic corporations wherever lone the affluent and achromatic tin unrecorded and the immense bulk of america indispensable unrecorded connected edges of the metropolis and nine surviving successful deeper and deeper poverty?"

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Yaron Lischinsky and Sarah Lynn Milgrim airs for a representation astatine an chartless location, successful this handout representation released by Israeli Embassy to the U.S. connected May 22, 2025. They were changeable and killed arsenic they near an lawsuit astatine the Capital Jewish Museum. (Embassy of Israel to the USA via X/Handout via Reuters)

In the hours aft the Oct. 7, 2023 violent onslaught successful Israel, the radical posted to X, saying that absorption "is not a crime!"

"Resistance to apartheid and fascist-type oppression is not a crime! It is the inevitable result for each radical who request self-determination alternatively than surviving with the boot-heel of the oppressors connected their necks," the radical said.

The radical went connected to accidental that the Oct. 7, 2023 onslaught "is a morally and legally morganatic effect to occupation."

In a abstracted X station connected Oct. 8, 2023, the radical said, "Palestinian absorption is not terrorism! It is simply a basal information of past that immoderate radical subjected to concern volition defy that occupation."

According to the Anti-Defamation League, speakers astatine rallies held by the Party for Socialism and Liberation aft Oct. 7, 2023 praised Hamas and the attack.

"We saw past weekend, the lone recourse the Palestinians person left, which is equipped resistance, and again, that is their close nether planetary law," 1 talker said astatine an Oct. 14, 2023 protestation successful Tampa, Florida.

At an Oct. 8, 2023 protestation successful Anaheim, California, 1 idiosyncratic celebrated this "moment wherever Hamas is taking control, they’re resisting."

Police officers enactment astatine the tract where, according to the U.S. Homeland Security Secretary, 2 Israeli Embassy unit members were changeable dormant adjacent the Capital Jewish Museum successful Washington, D.C., U.S. May 21, 2025. (Jonathan Ernst/Reuters)

A spokesperson for StandWithUs, an Israel acquisition organization, told Fox News Digital that the Party for Socialism and Liberation should beryllium investigated.

"PSL celebrated the atrocities connected October 7 arsenic ‘courageous’ and ‘bold.’ They held a rally wherever a talker mocked the Nova Festival massacre. Despite their efforts to region themselves from the execution of Yaron and Sarah, they should beryllium thoroughly investigated," the radical said.

Former homicide detective and Fox News contributor Ted Williams told Fox News Digital helium thinks the incidental is simply a "wake-up call" for instrumentality enforcement.

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Members of the radical Misaskim cleanable humor disconnected the crushed wherever 2 Israeli Embassy unit members were changeable dormant adjacent the Capital Jewish Museum successful Washington, D.C., U.S. May 22, 2025. (Evelyn Hockstein/Reuters)

"I deliberation instrumentality enforcement intelligibly needs to beryllium far, acold much progressive successful rooting retired each these antisemitic groups, benignant of similar the 1 that Rodriguez is alleged to person been a portion oregon progressive with," Williams said. "The occupation is there's not a batch of instrumentality enforcement officers to spell around, unfortunately, to instrumentality connected these assignments to infiltrate these groups and to effort to weed retired individuals similar Rodriguez."

Fox News Digital reached retired to the Party for Socialism and Liberation for comment.

Fox News Digital's Sarah Rumpf-Whitten contributed to this report.