An acclaimed Palestinian-American author and activist called two murdered Israeli diplomats ‘genocide cheerleaders’ and ‘human garbage’.
Susan Abulhawa celebrated the deaths of Yaron Lischinsky, 30, and Sarah Milgrim, 26, in a terrorist attack on the Capital Jewish Museum on Wednesday night.
The young soon-to-be-engaged couple were hit by some of the 21 bullets allegedly fired by Elias Rodriguez, 31, who screamed ‘free Palestine’ as he was arrested.
Abulhawa rejected even the slightest sympathy for their families and even speculated the shooting was a ‘false flag’ by pro-Israel agents.
‘Now we’re supposed to feel bad for two genocide cheerleaders after watching these colonizer baby killers slaughter people by the hundreds every day for two years,’ she wrote on Twitter.
‘I’ve seen the inside of too many children’s skulls to give a crap about the human garbage who get off on mass murder.
‘It wouldn’t surprise me if it was a false flag to focus on manufactured antisemitism instead of the actual holocaust being committed by Jewish supremacists.’
Hours earlier, Abulhawa came close to calling for more murders of random Jewish civilians around the world in revenge for Palestinians killed in Gaza.
‘When governments fail to hold Israel accountable for an actual holocaust being committed before our very eyes, no genocidal Zionist should be safe anywhere in the world,’ she wrote.
‘What Mr Rodriguez did should come as no surprise. In fact, I’m surprised it has not happened sooner.
‘Human beings with a conscience literally cannot bear to witness such evil day and day out being inflicted upon the bodies, minds, and futures of an utterly defenseless people, by such a hateful, racist, colonial state.’
Abulhawa doubled down by comparing the murders to the assassination of a Nazi diplomat by a Jewish teenager in 1938.
‘Once you understand that Zionism and Nazism are two sides of the same coin, the world we live in will make a lot more sense,’ she wrote.
She called both killings ‘an act of resistance because governments refused to stop a genocide’.
Nazi Germany was yet to invade Poland and begin World War II in 1938, but had been mass murdering Jews inside its borders for years.
Abulhawa frequently posts inflammatory content about the Israeli invasion of Gaza since the October 7, 2023, terrorist attack by Hamas.
Even before that, she spent much of her career writing about Palestinians living under Israeli occupation in the West Bank and elsewhere.
Her breakout novel Mornings in Jenin followed multiple generations of a Palestinian family living in a city in the northern West Bank.
The book’s original title was Scar of David in 2006 but it was re-released to critical acclaim without the more pointed title in 2010.
It was translated into 32 languages and sold more than a million copies, already making her the most read Palestinian author of all time.
Abulhawa published two more successful novels, and six other anthologies, books of poetry, and non-fiction works.
She was the director of the controversial 2023 Palestine Writes festival at the University of Pennsylvania.
Her hostility to Israel after fleeing Palestine as a war refugee caused her to decline various invitations and speaking engagements.
Abulhawa’s position is that Israel is an apartheid state similar to South Africa and should be abolished.
Lischinsky, an Israeli citizen, and Milgrim, an American, were gunned down at a Jewish conference of the American Jewish Committee focused on peace.
One witness reported seeing Rodriguez throw his gun away after it stopped firing.
Another witness earlier recalled how well-meaning security guards allowed him inside the building, wrongly assuming he was a victim of the shooting.
At the museum, according to a charging affidavit, he told police: ‘I did it for Palestine. I did it for Gaza. I am unarmed.’