Welcome back to the City Journal podcast.

I'm your host, Charles Fain Lehman, a fellow at the Manhattan Institute and senior editor of City Journal.

Joining me today on the panel, Rafael Mangual, kind specialist at the Manhattan Institute, Jesse Arm,

sounds for all things politics at the Manhattan Institute, and Tall Fort Gang,

all around legal candy man at the Manhattan Institute.

Gentlemen, thank you for joining me.

I want to get into last night's very serious news.

Late in the evening, we're recording this Thursday morning, late in the evening, last night

on Wednesday, a gunman opened fire after an American Jewish committee young diplomats

reception killing Yaron Lashinsky and Sarah Lynn Milgram.

The police have taken into custody 30-year-old Elias Rodriguez of Chicago.

Rodriguez reportedly told police he, quote, did it for Gaza and chanted free, free Palestine as he was taken into custody.

This is, we've talked, I think we talked on this podcast a couple of weeks ago, possibly with the same group about the firebombing of Josh Shapiro's home. This is part of, as I argue, in City Journal, a broader trend of both anti-Semitic terrorism and also left-wing terrorism more generally. So I want to get people's, we're still learning facts on the ground as we record this, but I want to get people's quick reactions. What do we make of what's going on here?

Yeah, I think this is exactly, you know, the kind of left-wing terrorist terrorism that we've been talking about. You know, this is part of the radical left's brand and it has been for a really long time. You know, Charles, you shared something

recently on Twitter about Yale doing this play, kind of celebrating, you know, a Puerto Rican

nationalist terrorist that shot up Congress. We have, you know, people in the weather underground,

you know, getting out of prison and then, you know, being met with, you know, fellowships and

faculty positions at Ivy League institutions.

The left has a real branding problem here because, you know, part of their brand is increasingly becoming the kind of violent radicalism that they celebrate on college campuses wrapped in Kaffa's.

And that ultimately culminates in stuff like this.

I mean, this is the logical extension of chance like free, free Palestine and from the river to the sea.

And we know that the opportunistic left would take advantage of making exactly that same kind of argument if the shoe were on the other foot.

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