A rabid anti-Israel hate group accused of helping to incite a Columbia University library takeover is now praising alleged DC Jewish Museum shooter Elias Rodriguez’s heinous crime as an act of “love.”
The notorious radical Unity of Fields also touted and provided a link to Rodriguez’s reported hate-fueled manifesto titled, “ESCALATE FOR GAZA, BRING THE WAR HOME.’’
“What Elias Rodriguez did was an act of solidarity and love for the Palestinian people,’’ the extreme lefty organization wrote on X Friday.
“If this seems crazy and unhinged to you, ask yourself why you are so well adjusted to a constant stream of disemboweled and starving children — made possible by the country in which you reside.”
Rodriguez, 31, of Chicago was caught on surveillance video gunning down soon-to-be-engaged Jewish couple Yaron Lischinsky, 28, and Sarah Milgrim, 26, outside the museum late Wednesday after an event aimed at fostering peace.
The homegrown radical continued to shoot Milgrim even as she lay mortally wounded on the ground and tried to crawl away, authorities said.
Rodriguez admitted to authorities minutes later that he was the shooter, shouting “Free, free Palestine!”
Unity of Fields called the accused double-killer a “political prisoner.
“And the people defending him the hardest, like us, are people also facing repression,’’ it seethed on X on Thursday.
“We don’t condemn armed resistance,’’ it wrote. “We don’t condemn direct action. We back the left and want this energy to be more organized as opposed to shunned and isolated.”
And in touting Rodriguez’s purported manifesto, the group posted a section of the suspect’s twisted screed:
“Those of us against the genocide take satisfaction in arguing that the perpetrators and abettors have forfeited their humanity. I sympathize with this viewpoint and understand its value in soothing the psyche which cannot bear to accept the atrocities it witnesses, even mediated through the screen. But inhumanity has long since shown itself to be shockingly common, mundane, prosaically human.”
Unity of Fields is the same group that put out fliers lionizing a Palestinian terrorist — leaflets that were passed around as anti-Israel protesters stormed Columbia’s Butler Library on May 7.
The shadowy organization, formerly known as Palestine Action US, also is the same group behind a despicable anarchist how-to guide that started circulating among Columbia students earlier this year.
The “underground manual” offers a step-by-step guide on how to create violent mayhem.
An X account titled “Columbia Jewish & Israeli Students’’ accused Unity of Fields of being “intimately involved in the planning and execution of antisemitic protest and propaganda activities at @Columbia.
“Now they’re actively cheering on yesterday’s tragic DC murder of 2 Israeli embassy staffers,” it wrote.
“This is what their ultimate goal is, and why we keep saying that these protests make the Jewish campus community unsafe.”
Another X user wrote of Unity of Fields, “This account is inciting domestic terrorism.”
The Anti-Defamation League describes Unity of Fields as “a radical far-left, anti-Zionist ‘direct action network’ that engages in and/or promotes aggressive, targeted protests and the defacement of property belonging to Jewish and non-Jewish organizations and individuals it considers supportive of Israel or Zionism or ‘complicit’ in Israel’s alleged actions.”
