Karin Eriksson: The attack came in an extremely sensitive position

Two young people have been shot to death outside the Jewish Museum in Washington. The victims were a young couple who were employed at the Embassy of Israel in the United States. They would just get engaged.

The shooter must have shouted « free Palestine ».

But nothing indicates that the act of violence helps suffering children at Gaza, on the contrary.

The tragedy – which is being investigated as a hate crime in the United States – risks strengthening political polarization around the Middle East conflict.

The protests against the Gaza war have created great turbulence in the United States and not least at the country’s foremost university. The Trump Administration has chosen to freeze state research grants of many billions of SEK to universities such as Harvard and Columbia. One of the reasons is that the Trump administration considers campus as a breeding ground for « uncontrolled anti -Semitism ». American intellectuals are now warning that freedom of speech is restricted in the United States.

The attack outside Jewish The museum becomes a reminder that the victims are more than the perpetrators in the tragedy that began with Hamas terrorist attack on Israel on October 7, 2023.

Wednesday night’s shooting drama took place in a very sensitive position.

In recent days, US media that Axios and CNN have reported on a growing crack between the White House and the Israeli government in Israel. Sources in the Trump administration say that the president is frustrated by the war and upset about the pictures of suffering children in Gaza and that he has urged Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to stop the war.

Public is the rhetoric from the United States another.

As late as Wednesday, Mike Huckabee, who is Trump’s new ambassador to Israel, chose to make a sharp mark in support of the Jerusalem government. In an interview with the public service channel NPR, Huckabee emphasizes that the entire debt for the suffering at Gaza at Hamas. He says he is deeply upset by the criticism of Israel’s new offensive presented by Britain, France and Canada.

– It’s not my thing to tell Israel how to perform their war. My family members were not murdered and massacred, truncated, says Huckebee in the interview.

Maybe you can Say that it stands and weighs in the diplomatic relations between the United States and Israel. It will not be easier to criticize Netanyahu after the hatred of the Jewish Museum in Washington. Israeli Foreign Minister Gideon Saar has already accused international politicians of paved the way of the acts of violence through allegations of genocide and child murder.

Donald Trump has so far chosen to be restrained in his comments. He writes in social media that it is obvious that the act is about anti -Semitism and that « hatred and radicalism has no place in the United States ». But it is hard to believe that the incumbent president will use the tragedy to call for reconciliation. At home there is always a target for Trump’s anger.

At the same time, two young voices have been silenced.

The couple who were killed had just participated in a seminar on humanitarian support for Gaza.