Good evening. It's Thursday, May 22nd. Welcome to a new episode of System Update, our live nightly show that airs every Monday through Friday at 7 p.m. Eastern exclusively here on Rumble, the free speech alternative to YouTube.

Tonight, there's a lot to talk about because a cold-blooded murder happened last night on the streets of Washington, D.C., as a gunman apparently targeted people

associated with an event held at the Capitol Jewish Museum, where the American Jewish

Committee was hosting a reception for young diplomats.

The two victims, a couple in their mid-20s, soon to be engaged, were both staffers

at the Israeli embassy in Washington.

The shooter left behind a manifesto stating he was doing it, killing people, to protest

Israel's ongoing destruction of Gaza, and he yelled pro-Palestinian slogans, including

free Palestine, once he was arrested.

Now, it goes without saying, or at least it should, that randomly targeting people you don't

know for murder is morally unjust in all cases, regardless of the justness of the cause

in whose name you're doing it.

But the reaction to this violence predictably lurched very quickly, well beyond condemning

the shooter and mourning the victims.

Israel supporters, both in Israel and the United States, immediately insisted that the real parties

that are responsible, the people who have blood on their hands, are not the murderer himself

for anyone who has harshly criticized Israel in Gaza.

Such criticism, you see, they say, inspires that violence. Meanwhile, the ADL immediately

exploited these murders as well, while the bodies were still cold, to demand even more

aggressive crackdowns of the United States on free speech, specifically on people with large

platforms who have been vocally critical of Israel. Even the ADL director named the Twitch streamer Hassan Piker as someone who he holds responsible for these murders and therefore he said must be silenced.

We'll look at all the ramifications and the attempts to use these killings for various agendas.

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