🇦🇺🇮🇷🇮🇱⚡- "Our conviction has strengthened that Iran was behind the Sydney operation.

Iran has attempted to carry out operations against Jewish targets in Australia over the past few weeks," - Haaretz, citing an Israeli security source.

🇮🇱🇦🇺🇮🇷 - Iranian Foreign Ministry:

"We condemn the violent attack in Sydney and reject and condemn terrorism and the killing of people everywhere".

@thewarreporterr

🇪🇷🇸🇦 - Eritrean President Isaias Afwerki calls for cooperation between Red Sea ports during a meeting with Saudi authorities.

🇸🇾⚡- Initial reports that the Islamic State are behind the attack in Maraat al-Numan, Idlib. 20+ Syrian government forces are in critical conditions.

Update- various Brown alumni are anecdotally sharing that the shooter began his attack in a Jewish professor Rachel Friedberg’s classroom. See summary 👇🏻

Rachel Friedberg is Teaching Professor of Economics, Faculty Associate of the Program in Judaic Studies, and Faculty Associate of the Population Studies and Training Center. Friedberg earned her Ph.D. at MIT, joining Brown as an Assistant Professor, and serving for four years on the faculty of the Department of Economics at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Her research focuses on the economics of immigration, specifically econometric analysis of the outcomes and impacts of immigrants in the United States and Israel, about which she has testified before Congress and participated in Knesset committee deliberations. She is currently exploring the intersection of economics and Jewish studies.

Friedberg’s Principles of Economics course is the most popular class at Brown, taken by half of all undergraduates.

🇺🇸BREAKING: The suspect in the Brown University shooting has been identified as 24-year-old Benjamin Erickson from Wisconsin, according to The Washington Post.

He was arrested at a hotel about 15 miles from the Providence campus.

Picture of the Suspect Benjamin Erickson.