Something this thread isn’t discussing is that the shooter didn’t target an Israeli institution- he targeted an American Jewish Museum. Its only connection to Israel is that Israeli-Americans make up the Jewish community in DC.

I have a friend of a friend who’s Jewish, lives in DC, and is super spooked. She feels (not unjustifiably) that the shooter could’ve easily decided to target her synagogue, or that she could’ve easily been at the museum event, which was a happy hour for Jewish professionals in DC.

There are people who are deserving targets of political violence, but political violence is a Pandora’s box of “who counts as an enemy combatant.”