Posted on 06/02/2025 8:37:40 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
In Boulder, Colorado, eight elderly Jews were torched alive in a park. They wore red T-shirts bearing the names of hostages seized by Palestinian terrorists over 600 days earlier. Some carried Israeli flags. Walking peacefully in memory and solidarity, they were attacked with fire as a flamethrower and Molotov cocktails created flames as high as a tree. An 88-year-old Holocaust survivor was among the injured. The attacker, Mohamed Sabry Soliman, is reported to be an Egyptian national in the country illegally. He now faces murder charges.
This third such targeted attack on American Jews in three months confirms a disturbing trend. In April, the home of Pennsylvania’s Jewish governor was firebombed shortly after he hosted a Passover meal. In May, two Israeli embassy staffers were shot dead outside the Capital Jewish Museum. And this weekend, the fire returned – this time in Boulder. This time in broad daylight. This time with the specific intent to incinerate Jewish pensioners gathered to remember kidnapped civilians.
At a shooting range in South Florida, I met Jews who on October 7th, 2023 chose to arm themselves for the first time – a story I heard over and over as I met with members of the Jewish community, from lawyers to PR men to moms and dads. They’re training. Securing homes, temples, and schools as if a war has already begun. Because this week, we learnt it has. Had there been a single armed guard among the elderly marchers in Boulder, it’s possible we would be talking today about a foiled terror attack – not about charred flesh and burned lives.
There has been some outcry. Officials have condemned the attacks. Statements have been issued. But even as Jews in America are being attacked with increasing regularity, we have not seen the birth of a “Jewish Lives Matter” campaign. No nationwide reckoning. No marches filling the streets. The continued targeting and killing of Jews does not appear to summon the same political urgency or cultural solidarity as other forms of hate. That silence is only broken by the continued death chant of “Free Palestine”.
One answer lies in the narrative war unfolding alongside the real one. Just hours before the Boulder attack, major media outlets rushed to report that Israeli tanks had opened fire on starving Palestinians at an aid distribution site in Rafah. The headlines were brutal, the claims unchecked. There were no videos. No forensic evidence. The sources? “Local health officials” and “witnesses” – terms that in Gaza almost always mean Hamas.
Hours later, drone footage emerged showing a very different reality: quiet crowds, no gunfire, no chaos. The Israeli footage was not conclusive, but it did raise a simple, devastating question – was there even a mass casualty event? And if there was, what happened? To date, no reliable, verified evidence has surfaced. Yet the narrative had already run its course. Yet more tales of Israeli cruelty had already circled the globe. Jews, once again, had been painted as butchers. Hours later, in Boulder, someone lit a match.
Ambassador Mike Huckabee condemned the media’s role in this cycle. “Reckless and irresponsible reporting by major US news outlets,” he said, “are contributing to the antisemitic climate that has resulted in murder… and terror.” These aren’t exaggerations. They’re recognitions of cause and effect. When falsehoods from Hamas mouthpieces are repeated uncritically by CNN, the New York Times, or the Associated Press, they become fuel. Fuel for slogans. Fuel for rage. Fuel, quite literally, for firebombs.
Yet while the press was crying massacre, something real was taking place in Gaza – something almost entirely ignored. For the first time since the war began, a new aid distribution model – designed by the US and implemented with Israeli coordination – has begun to work. It bypasses Hamas. It is transparent. And its early results look promising.
In just one week of operations, the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF) has distributed nearly six million meals via 87,360 aid boxes. On Sunday alone, one distribution site – SDS1– delivered 1,159,200 meals without a single security incident. No violence. No deaths. No chaos. Prices of basic goods in the area have reportedly dropped by over 35 percent. GHF is now expanding to four more sites, including northern Gaza. This is what actual humanitarianism looks like: structured, verifiable, non-political. And it’s working. Not in theory – in practice.
Meanwhile, Hamas has not paid its fighters for months. Its grip on the streets is weakening. Civilians have begun storming Hamas warehouses, some being shot in the process. The tide is turning, but you wouldn’t know it from the headlines. What we get instead is disinformation. One outlet even reported that Israeli naval ships were firing on civilians at a GHF site – a claim so implausible, so grotesque, that it barely merits rebuttal. But it made the rounds. To the Jew-hating media, it “felt true.” And that’s the problem.
The slogan “Free Palestine” has, for many, become a kind of moral shorthand. But we must now ask honestly: what does it mean? Increasingly, it is declared while slaughtering Jews. It is shouted outside temples and adorns placards not of peace, but of bloodlust. Like “Allahu Akbar” before it, it has become the cry beneath which Jews are murdered in the street. If the goal is statehood, we are forced to ask: what kind of state? What would it be for? What would it do?
Because what we are seeing does not point toward the birth of a liberal democracy. It points toward yet another theocratic terror state. There is no civic program behind the chant. No vision of coexistence. No blueprint for governance. The responsibility is on those who chant and their supporters to tie their movement to the actual goods of statehood – not to murder, not to arson, not to open war on Jews.
Central to that war is a news machine that cannot distinguish between elderly Americans at a vigil and a far-off war against terrorists in the Middle East. It is not a news ecosystem, but a propaganda machine. It does not simply mislead – it weaponizes. It invites violence. And increasingly, that violence is coming home. The attack in Boulder should been a national rupture. A moment to step back from the brink. But it won’t be.
Something fundamental has shifted. The veil has slipped. American Jews are learning what their coreligionists in Europe and in Israel have known for some time: that hatred of Jews is never defeated, never rational and never far away.
One of his victims has died?
Memory Eternal!
Why a CCW carrier didn’t put a bullet in that subhuman’s head, and stop it before it progressed, is a mystery to me. Unless CCW is *illegal* in that Colorado 3rd world hellhole...
“He now faces murder charges.
One of his victims has died?
Memory Eternal!”
I don’t believe any victim has died. I don’t understand murder charges.
Reckless and irresponsible reporting by major US news outlets” is being polite. These “journalists” know by now that information from their Palestinian sources approaches 100 percent lies. To use any of it without rock solid confirmation amounts to complicity with terrorists.
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<>Statement on Media Misinformation on Gaza<>
June 2, 2025
By Mike Huckabee, U.S. Ambassador to Israel
U.S. Embassy Jerusalem
Reckless and irresponsible reporting by major U.S. news outlets are contributing to the antisemitic climate that has resulted in the murder of two young people at an Israeli Embassy event in Washington last month and the attempted murder and terror attack on a group of pro-Israel demonstrators in Colorado on Sunday.
Without verification of any source other than Hamas and its collaborators, the New York Times, CNN, and Associated Press reported that a number of people seeking to receive humanitarian food boxes from the Gaza Humanitarian Fund were shot or killed by the Israeli Defense Forces. These reports were FALSE. Drone video and first-hand accounts clearly showed that there were no injuries, no fatalities, no shooting, no chaos. It is Hamas that continues to terrorize and intimidate those who seek food aid. The only source for these misleading, exaggerated, and utterly fabricated stories came from Hamas sources, which are designed to fan the flames of antisemitic hate that is arguably contributing to violence against Jews in the United States. Media sources who willingly parrot these libelous allegations should recant their fake news stories, apologize, and pledge to practice actual reporting of fact instead of engaging in dangerous propaganda that assists the terror group Hamas as they continue to hold innocent hostages for over 600 days after butchering over 1,200 people on October 7th.
The efforts of GHF have resulted in over 5 million meals to civilians without incident. For the New York Times, AP, and CNN to be part of a Hamas-fed false narrative is reprehensible. It represents more than mere sloppy journalism. It’s feeding and inciting violence against innocent people in the United States.
We are demanding an immediate retraction of the lies and are appealing to all media sources to act with objective professionalism to cover actual events instead of being a partner of terrorism by blindly following Hamas news releases.
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“I don't believe any victim has died. I don't understand murder charges.”
‘Hate-fueled’ madman launches ‘targeted terror attack’ with Molotov cocktails — setting at least one victim ablaze — at Israeli hostages’ event in Boulder, Colorado (Jun 1, 2025)
https://nypost.com/2025/06/01/us-news/hate-fueled-madman-launches-targeted-terror-attack-at-israeli-hostages-event-in-boulder-colorado/
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“They are killers! How many children you killed?” he shouted as he attempted to burn children alive.
Two victims were medivaced.
You are out of place here.
I think you need to wake up. Come back in a week and we can talk about it, after the name of the victims are released. (They may not even release the victims names for fear for their family)
Islamist Hate of Jews is an evil consuming disease.
He (Soliman) was booked into Boulder County Jail late Sunday night on suspicion of 42 state felony charges, according to his county arrest affidavit. The charges under investigation include:
Eight counts of attempted first-degree murder after deliberation,
Eight counts of attempted first-degree murder with extreme indifference,
Six counts of first-degree assault of an at-risk or elderly victim,
Two counts of first-degree assault,
Two counts of possession of an incendiary device,
And 16 counts of attempted possession of an incendiary device.
The UCHealth University of Colorado Hospital’s burn unit was treating three patients Monday morning, according to spokeswoman Alli Witzman.
https://www.foxnews.com/us/usaid-paperwork-found-car-boulder-terror-attack-suspect-targeting-pro-israel-group
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Soliman allegedly told federal and local law enforcement officials during an interview that he specifically targeted a “Zionist group” that gathered in Boulder on June 1 because he wanted to stop them from taking over “our land,” which he said is “Palestine.”
Hamas Blind Hate for Jews is pure evil.
I have been literately saying this for years and I will keep saying it.
Google knife attacks, (vehicle, truck, car attacks),* google bombings, google rape gangs, google hostages, google mass homicides, google fire bombing** and the overwhelming majority will have a moslem, or a palestinian involved as the perpetrator. We all know that islam is a death cult and criminal mafia like organization. ...do the searches and then you decide what a moslem is.
*Added May 26, 2025
** Added June 1, 2025
The US media ‘pogrom’ continues...and no one is calling it what it IS!!!
The attack was in a "gun free" zone, IIUC. So a "law abiding" gun owner would not be carrying.
The attack was in a "gun free" zone, IIUC. So a "law abiding" gun owner would not be carrying.
I CCW in GF zones, since criminals don’t give a rip about it. I was robbed and shot on 7.14.75, so I take no chances.
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