Shooting of Israeli embassy staffers underscores US ‘era of violent populism’

Rodriguez reportedly chanted “free, free Palestine” while being detained by security. It’s a feature of this “era of violent populism”, said Robert Pape, director of the University of Chicago Project on Security and Threats. But the killings also show that the US is a “tinderbox” and that political violence is a slippery slope, said Pape. “The more political violence there is against Trump, the more there will be political violence against Democratic leaders like Josh Shapiro,” Pape said. “The more there’s political violence against Josh Shapiro, the more there will be antisemitic political violence.