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Israeli envoy calls Washington killings "anti‑Semitic terrorism," faults U.N. official for "incitement"
Summary
Israel's Ambassador to the United Nations, Danny Dunham, described the killings of two diplomatic staff in Washington, D.C., as "anti‑Semitic terrorism" and criticized comments by a U.N. official he said incited violence, while calling for accountability.
Israel's Ambassador to the United Nations, Danny Dunham, on Monday condemned the killing of two members of diplomatic staff in Washington, D.C., and said comments by a U.N. official helped fuel a climate that led to the attack.
The ambassador said, "Last week, 2 young people on the diplomatic staff at East Verses Embassy in Washington, DC, Yaron Elishinski and Sarah Lynn Milgram, were murdered on the street as they were leaving the capital Jewish Museum. They were a couple. Yaron was planning to propose this week in Jerusalem. They were gunned down in cold blood by a terrorist screaming, free Palestine." He called the episode "an act of anti Semitic terrorism."
Why it matters: Dunham linked public statements at international fora to on‑the‑ground violence, saying inflammatory remarks can be a form of…
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