A week after the murder of Israeli embassy workers Yaron Lischinsky and Sarah Milgrim in DC, multiple pro-Palestine and Marxist groups have rallied behind the attacker – Elias Rodriguez – and announced campaigns to free him.

The most prominent of these campaigns was started by Unity of Fields – formerly known as Palestine Action US – which announced a “Free Elias Rodriguez Organizing Committee” on Monday.

The campaign is co-signed by 28 other pro-Palestine or Marxist groups, including Palestine News Network, The United Liberation Front for Palestine, the Chinese Palestine Solidarity Action Network, the DSA Liberation Caucus, the Bronx Anti-War coalition, and Tariq el-Tahrir Youth and Student Network.

The campaign statement calls Elias Rodriguez’s murder of the two embassy workers on May 21 “a legitimate act of resistance against the zionist state and its genocidal campaign in Gaza.”