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Antisemitism does not respect national borders
The Washington Post ^ | June 2, 2025 | Editorial Board

Posted on 06/02/2025 3:46:20 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum

The walkers in Boulder, Colorado, had gathered peacefully every Sunday afternoon at 1 o’clock to ensure that the world did not forget hostages Hamas still holds, more than 600 days after the terrorist attacks against Israel on Oct. 7, 2023. The Boulder effort, part of a global initiative called Run for Their Lives, has been profound yet modest: just a few dozen people wearing red, walking along a pedestrian mall and saying the captives’ names.

On Sunday, the ritual made global news, for the wrong reasons. Egyptian national Mohamed Sabry Soliman, 45, allegedly used a makeshift flamethrower and tossed molotov cocktails into the crowd while yelling “Free Palestine” and “You all deserve to die.” After being detained at the scene, he reportedly told police: “I did it to avenge my people.” Federal charging documents allege that Soliman had been planning the attack for a year.

President Donald Trump is using this hate crime to justify the continuation of his crackdown on foreigners. “This is yet another example of why we must keep our Borders SECURE, and deport Illegal, Anti-American Radicals from our Homeland,” he wrote Monday on social media.

It’s true that Soliman should not have been in the United States. The Department of Homeland Security said on Monday that he is in the country illegally. He arrived at Los Angeles International Airport in August 2022 on a tourist visa, which expired in February 2023. He filed an asylum claim in September 2022 and was granted work authorization in March 2023, but this expired a few months ago.

Crimes committed by those in the country illegally should not have happened. Even advocates of high levels of immigration must admit that the United States should know who is entering the United States, along with any threats they...

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Hamas; Hezbollah; Iran; US: Colorado; Yemen
KEYWORDS: boulder; colorado; hamas; hezbollah; iran; mohamedsoliman; yemen

1 posted on 06/02/2025 3:46:20 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

some of the distorted and false “coverage” by the WashPost is RESPONSIBLE for confusing people about the Fakestinian terrorists and the danger they represent... and creating or at least “normalizing”
some of the amtisemitism

the WashPost (and NYSlimes and several other major legacy media) are NOT INNOCENT in this! not by a long shot


2 posted on 06/02/2025 4:11:34 PM PDT by faithhopecharity ("Politicians aren't born, they're excreted." Marcus Tullius Cicero (106 to 43 BCE))
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

It’s Boulder. Colorado’s little nest of the most awful of the left - complete with what used to be a fine University. Be fooled not, the septic tank is quite shallow.


3 posted on 06/02/2025 6:13:05 PM PDT by Da Coyote
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

No crows are left in the DC area as WAPO has eaten all of them.


4 posted on 06/02/2025 9:34:48 PM PDT by magooey (The Mandate of Heaven resides in the hearts of men.)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

‘Islam’ never recognizies borders....never will


5 posted on 06/03/2025 7:07:59 AM PDT by caww (O death, when you seized my Lord, you lost your grip on me......)
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