Jewish congressman shares emotional message against political violence in wake of fatal shooting of Israeli Embassy staffers
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A Jewish congressman on Wednesday shared his personal fears of political violence, as he reflected on last week’s fatal shooting of two Israeli Embassy staffers and called on those protesting the war in Gaza to do so peacefully.
A Jewish congressman on Wednesday shared his personal fears of political violence, as he reflected on last week’s fatal shooting of two Israeli Embassy staffers and called on those protesting the war in Gaza to do so peacefully. Democratic Rep. Greg Landsman shared Wednesday that the killing of “two innocent young people,” Yaron Lischinsky and Sarah Milgrim, “was deeply personal and profoundly unsettling.” “First, let me be as honest and as personal as it gets. I have had a hard time getting the image of being shot and killed out of my head. It happens almost every time I’m in a big crowd now,” the Ohio congressman, who’s now in his second term, wrote in an emotional statement. “Last Saturday at a rally back home, I decided not to have police protection. Standing in a crowd talking to constituents, I had the most vivid image: All of a sudden, I saw myself on the ground, dead from a gunshot. This is what actually happened a few days later to Yaron and Sarah.” Landsman told CNN in an interview following the release of his statement that he “felt compelled to be as honest as possible” in order to “pull back from this moment” and “lay out a path forward” from tragedy. “I want people to appreciate that organizing and advocating and pushing for something you believe in is so critically important, and that there is a difference between protest and chaos,” he said.
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