‘Toxic Anti-Semitism’: Australian Senators on Shooting of Israeli Embassy Staff

Elias Rodriguez has been charged with two counts of first-degree murder.

A man draped in the Israeli flag, bearing a cross and the name "Jesus" at its center, gestures as Metropolitan Police officers secure the area outside the Capital Jewish Museum following a shooting that left two people dead in Washington, DC, in the early hours of May 22, 2025. Two Israeli embassy staffers were shot dead late Wednesday, May 21, outside a Jewish museum in Washington by a gunman who shouted "free Palestine," authorities said, with US officials and Israeli diplomats expressing shock and outrage over the killings. Photo by Alex WROBLEWSKI / AFP

Liberal Senator Dave Sharma has expressed his horror at the recent act of terror in Washington in which two Israeli embassy staff were killed.

This comes as Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu promised to boost security at embassies around the world after the young couple were fatally shot in an allegedly targeted anti-Semitic attack.