The victims'Yaron Lischinsky and Sarah Milgrim'were 20-something Israeli Embassy aides. Lischinsky, a devout Christian born to an Argentinian Israeli father and a German mother, had just bought an engagement ring. Milgrim, a Jewish American with a master's degree from the United Nations University for Peace, was devoted to humanitarian work and cross-cultural dialogue. They were idealists. They were in love. And they were murdered'not for anything they had done, but for who they were and what they represented. Their alleged killer, Elias Rodriguez, was at one time affiliated with the Party for Socialism and Liberation'a U.S.-based Marxist group tied to China, Iran, and Russia. The group lionizes Hamas and calls for violent 'resistance' against Israel. It's hard not to conclude that this was a political assassination, fueled by a deranged but coherent ideology that's spreading with alarming speed through American institutions. Rodriguez didn't invent this worldview. It has been...
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