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TikTok star openly praises murder of Israeli Embassy staffers

A social media influencer with over 3.4 million followers on TikTok openly endorses the murder of a young couple who worked as staffers at the Israeli Embassy in Washington.

By World Israel News Staff

A social media influencer with millions of followers openly endorsed the murder of a young couple employed by the Israeli Embassy in Washington last week, denying that the deadly shooting attack carried out next to the entrance of a Jewish museum was antisemitic.

On Thursday, Guy Christensen, a 19-year-old social media influencer from Pennsylvania with over 3.4 million followers on TikTok who operates under the handle “YourFavoriteGuy,” spoke out on the deadly shooting attack Wednesday night outside the Capital Jewish Museum in Washington.

The attack was carried out by Elias Rodriguez, a far-left anti-Israel activist from Chicago.

During the attack, Rodriguez, who had worn a keffiyeh shortly before opening fire, approached four people as they exited the museum during an American Jewish Committee event for young diplomats.

Rodriguez opened fire, killing Lynn Milgrim, an American citizen employed by the Israeli Embassy in Washington, and Yaron Lischinsky, Milgrim’s Israeli-German boyfriend who worked as a researcher staffer at the embassy.

Upon his arrest, Rodriguez told officers that he “did it for Gaza,” and shouted “Free, free Palestine!”

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“I want to urge you first to support Elias’s actions,” Christensen said in his video on Thursday. “He is not a terrorist. He’s a resistance fighter, and the fact is that the fight against Israel’s war machine, against their genocide machine, against their criminality, includes their foreign diplomats in this country.”

The video, which was later removed from both Christensen’s TikTok and Instagram accounts, racked up over 630,000 views on TikTok alone before it was erased.

In an interview with The New York Post following the removal of the video, Christensen remained unapologetic, doubling down on his support for the murder of the two embassy staffers, whom he called war criminals.

“You will not hear my sympathize with war criminals,” Christensen said. “I do not condemn the elimination of those two Zionist officials who worked at the Israeli Embassy.”
“Israel has live-streamed a genocide to the entire world the last two years.”
On Friday, Leo Terrell, Senior Counsel to the Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights in the US Department of Justice, hinted that the DoJ could probe Christensen over his open support for the murder of the couple.
“Will review all leads,” Terrell tweeted in response to Christensen’s comments.