Senators Lindsey Graham, Jeff Merkley and Ben Ray Luján condemned the fatal shooting of a couple who worked for the Israeli embassy. (Fox News Digital)
"These two young people died senselessly. Israel's engaging in a war for its very survival. My heart breaks for these two young people in the prime of their lives," Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., said.
Lischinsky was 30, and Milgrim was 26.
"There's no room for violence in America," Sen. Ben Ray Luján, D-N.M., told Fox News Digital. "I appreciate my colleague, Sen. Rosen, moving a resolution today that no colleagues objected to, bringing attention to antisemitism in America. Anytime anyone is targeted, we need to speak up, not just here, but around the world."
Yaron Lischinsky and Sarah Lynn Milgrim, who were shot and killed as they left an event at the Capital Jewish Museum, pose for a picture at an unknown location in a handout image released by the Embassy of Israel to the U.S. May 22, 2025. (Embassy of Israel to the USA via X/Handout via Reuters)
Gillibrand is one of two Democratic senators representing New York, which is home to the largest Jewish population in the United States and also includes Columbia University, the elite Ivy League school in Manhattan that has been accused of allowing antisemitism to fester on campus.
President Donald Trump has condemned the anti-Israel protests at elite universities, threatening to cut federal funding to institutions that do not condemn antisemitism and threatening to revoke international students' visas.
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"It is disgraceful that two young people with their whole lives in front of them can't go to a reception in a public building in Washington, D.C., and be safe. It is criminal. It is disgraceful. It is intolerable, and we have to do everything we can to stop antisemitism in its tracks and protect people," Gillibrand added.
In an unusual move for active federal court judges, four of them said in a Dispatch opinion piece Wednesday, "Societies that persecute Jews are societies that are sick and dying. Societies that allow the moral rot of Jew hatred to proliferate are societies on their way out of the pages of history."
The Associated Press contributed to this story.
Deirdre Heavey is a politics writer for Fox News Digital.
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