Palestinian-American author supports killing of Israeli diplomats in DC, says she's surprised it didn't happen sooner

Palestinian author and activist Susan Abulhawa came under fire for supporting the murder of two young Israeli diplomats outside the Capital Jewish Museum in Washington as she said she was surprised that it didn't happen sooner. Yaron Kischinsky, 30, and Sarah Lynn Milgrim, 26, were shot dead by Chicago's Elias Rodriguez , who said he did it for Palestine.

The young couple, soon to be married, were attending a Jewish conference of the American Jewish Committee. They were shot in the back and after being attacked, Milgrim even tried to crawl away from the shooter but Rodriguez ensured that both of them are killed.

"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," Susan wrote.

"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," she added.

Susan Abulhawa, who’s openly called for Israel to be wiped off the map, just referred to the 2 Israeli staffers murdered in DC as “genocidal cheerleaders.”

She also called the assassinations a “false flag” by “Jewish supremacists” and said she’s surprised these attacks on Jews… pic.twitter.com/cgPMicqReI

— StopAntisemitism (@StopAntisemites) May 24, 2025

Supporting shooter Rodriguez, Susan wrote: "What Mr. Rodriguez did should come as no surprise. In fact, I’m surprised it has not happened sooner."

"Natural logic: 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," the writer said.

Susan's posts were flagged by many who tagged FBI and asked for investigation against the Palestinian author.

Abulhawa lives in Pennsylvania with her daughter and serves as executive director of the Palestine Writes Literature Festival . In November 2024, she debated at the Oxford Union, supporting the motion that Israel is an apartheid state responsible for genocide, winning 278 to 59. The Union later censored her speech on YouTube, prompting her criticism of Zionist influence. In April 2025, her scheduled talk at MIT on Palestinian writer Ghassan Kanafani was canceled after objections from other speakers, leading her to criticize them as avoiding political discourse.