FILE PHOTO: A man, with an Israeli flag with a cross in the center, looks on next to police officers working at the site where, according to the U.S. Homeland Security Secretary, two Israeli embassy staff were shot dead near the Capital Jewish Museum in Washington, D.C., U.S. May 21, 2025. Photo: REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst/File Photo

In the latest horrific libel against Jews and Israel, a former Jordanian Minister of Interior claimed that Israel may have planned the murder of two Israeli embassy staff in Washington “to lessen the Western-American pressure.”

This was posted on the Facebook of Mazen Turki El-Qadi’s Communications Office, just hours after Yaron Lischinsky and Sarah Lynn Milgrim were murdered outside the Jewish Museum in Washington.

The post follows the similar recent libel by Mahmoud Abbas’ senior advisor who claimed that the Oct. 7 Hamas atrocities was led by Israel:

Perhaps it [Israel] prepared the conditions and led Hamas to this issue, because it had a plan that it wanted to carry out in the Gaza Strip using what happened on Oct. 7 as an excuse.

[Mahmoud Abbas’ Advisor on Religious Affairs, Mahmoud Al-Habbash, YouTube channel, April 21, 2025]

These libels are consistent with Palestinian Authority ideology that Jews are evil, scheming menaces responsible for all the troubles faced by humanity everywhere in the world.

Accordingly, when 1,200 Jews are murdered on Oct. 7 and when Israeli embassy staff are murdered in Washington, Jews must be behind it.

The person responsible for this latest libel, Mazen Turki El-Qadi, in addition to being Jordan’s former Minister of Interior, is also a former Director of Jordanian Public Security and former member of Jordanian Parliament.

The author is the Founder and Director of Palestinian Media Watch, where a version of this article first appeared.