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“Eight people were injured on Sunday when a 45-year-old man yelled ‘Free Palestine’ and threw incendiary devices into a crowd in Boulder, Colorado where a demonstration to remember the Israeli hostages who remain in Gaza was taking place.” Reuters
“The suspect, identified by the FBI as 45-year-old Mohamed Sabry Soliman… told investigators ‘he wanted to kill all Zionist people and wished they were all dead,’ that he specifically targeted the Run for Their Lives group and that he had researched and planned the attack for more than a year…
“Soliman was born in Egypt and he moved three years ago to Colorado Springs, where he lived with his wife and five children, according to state court documents. He previously spent 17 years living in Kuwait. The Department of Homeland Security said Soliman filed for asylum in September 2022 and has been living in the U.S. illegally since his visa expired in February 2023.” AP News
Here’s our coverage of the recent attack in Washington, DC. The Flip Side
The left worries about increasing antisemitic violence.
“Pervasive anti-Semitism is what enables attackers to believe that they are striking back at Israel by trying to kill any Jew, anywhere. This hateful mindset assigns responsibility for specific Israeli policies to Jewish people all over the world. Jews thus stand condemned purely for being Jewish. This is a sure tell of anti-Semitic unreason—given that neither American Jews, nor Israelis themselves, are of one mind on anything, let alone the Netanyahu government’s Gaza policy…
“The Colorado victims were meeting in support of hostages taken by Hamas. The D.C. victims were working to advance their embassy’s diplomatic mission. Both sets of people belonged to the best traditions of dialogue and peaceful advocacy, the absolute opposite of irrational hate. The personal, proximate violence that these attackers used was designed to create a spectacle that makes all Jewish Americans feel vulnerable.”
Juliette Kayyem, The Atlantic
“Words matter. The protester at Columbia University in 2024 holding a sign labeling Jewish demonstrators who were waving Israeli flags as ‘Al-Qasam’s next targets’ was dismissed as being hyperbolic. So were the ‘By Any Means Necessary’ banners carried at demonstrations and the red inverted triangles, similar to those Hamas uses to mark Israeli targets, spray-painted on university buildings, a national monument, and even the apartment building of a museum director…
“When demonstrators wave the flags of terrorist organizations, wear headbands celebrating those same groups, and publicly commemorate the martyrdom of terrorist leaders such as Hamas’s Yahya Sinwar and Hezbollah’s Hassan Nasrallah, they’re not throwing the bomb, but their message can light the fuse… Violence against all faiths is rising. To stop it, our society must take more seriously not just bomb throwing, but the messages that light the fuse.”
Bruce Hoffman, The Atlantic
“It’s true that Soliman should not have been in the United States… Yet most immigrants come to this country for refuge and work. Those who commit crimes discredit the vast majority, legal or not. Cutting illegal immigration is doable — but ending it is impossible…
“More to the point, somehow stopping all illegal immigration would not end antisemitism in America. Virulent and violent antisemitism transcends national boundaries. The cold-blooded murders of two Israeli Embassy staffers outside the Capital Jewish Museum last month underscored the homegrown element of the threat…
“There is no easy solution. Minds can take decades to change. Politicians who encourage and exploit divisions over the Israeli-Palestinian conflict do not help. A worthwhile approach — though not guaranteed to work, particularly at a satisfying speed — is the one the Boulder walkers used to highlight the plight of the Hamas hostages: peacefully appealing to people’s basic humanity.”
Editorial Board, Washington Post
The right blames anti-Israel rhetoric for the increase in violence against Jews.
The right blames anti-Israel rhetoric for the increase in violence against Jews.
“Pennsylvania's governor and family had to evacuate the mansion after a pro-Hamas agitator fire-bombed it with the clear intent to murder Josh Shapiro. Another ‘Free Palestine’ activist assassinated two Israeli embassy workers and shot others while declaring it a political act as he got arrested. When these same activists declare their intent to ‘globalize the intifada,’ this is exactly what they mean. It is a call to terrorism and violence…
“Now that Jews are dying, suddenly progressives like Elizabeth Warren and Dan Goldman are claiming that ‘this is what happens when too many remain silent in response to anti-Semitic hate,’ and ‘we all have a responsibility to stop these anti-Semitic acts.’ Well, welcome to the party, pals, but the last I saw, Warren and her allies were too busy defending the schools that allowed the ‘globalize the intifada’ movement to metastasize.”
Ed Morrissey, Hot Air
“The Intifada, after all, was never a peaceful movement. Literally meaning ‘uprising,’ the first Intifada (1987–1990) and second (2000–2005) were marked by frequent violence, with the second resulting in nearly 1,000 Israels killed or injured. Any Israeli who lived through the second Intifada will tell you that they still think twice about where to sit on a bus, remembering the ever-present risk of suicide bombings…
“If the past two months are any indication, this won’t be the last attempt to use terror in service of nihilistic goals. The original aim of Intifada violence was to break the will of the Israeli public. The goal now is no different: to bend American policy through mayhem and fear. There is no credible response other than to reject these tactics…
“This doesn’t mean targeting speech. It means prosecuting the associated crimes with full force. Charge vandals, arsonists, and those who block roads ‘for Palestine.’ Dismantle radical groups that openly embrace revolutionary violence. Where the law permits—as in the D.C. shooting, or potentially the Boulder firebombing—pursue the death penalty and make an example of the offenders.”
Charles Fain Lehman, City Journal
“Immigration laws require the removal of all aliens here illegally, not just the least sympathetic… Soliman is presumed innocent until proven guilty, but if he’s responsible for this attack, his actions harken back to another Egyptian overstay, Hesham Hedayet, who murdered two and wounded three others during a July 4, 2002, attack at the El Al counter at Los Angeles International Airport…
“It’s reported Soliman ‘filed a claim with US Citizenship and Immigration Services’ — likely asylum — and if true it’s yet another similarity to Hedayet. Hedayet was denied asylum, but was never deported. Two years later, his wife won the fraud-riddled ‘visa lottery,’ allowing him to stay and carry out his attack. We can’t know who the next alien criminal or terrorist will be — which is why Trump and [border czar Tom] Homan must follow through on their deportation promises.”
Andrew Arthur, New York Post
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