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Shouting “End the Zionists” and “Free Palestine,” Mohamed Sabry Soliman—a 45-year-old illegal immigrant to the United States from Egypt—set Jews on fire on Sunday afternoon at the Pearl Street Mall in Boulder, Colorado. Literally. With Molotov cocktails.

One of the eight mostly senior citizens who were rushed to the hospital with serious burns was a Holocaust survivor. Her crime? Participating in a peaceful weekly “Run for Their Lives” walk on behalf of the hostages still in Hamas captivity.

Earlier in the day, Fox News Digital aired an interview with U.S. Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee. In the course of the one-on-one exchange, Huckabee commented on a summit scheduled for June 17-20 at United Nations headquarters in New York City and hosted by France and Saudi Arabia. The purpose of the international conference, which the United States will not attend, is to promote recognition of a Palestinian state.

“It’s incredibly inappropriate in the midst of a war that Israel is dealing with to go out and present something that I think increasingly Israelis are steadfast against,” said Huckabee, adding, “Oct. 7 changed a lot of things.”

And then he let loose.

“If France is really so determined to see a Palestinian state, I have a suggestion for them: carve out a piece of the French Riviera and create a Palestinian state,” he quipped, only half-jokingly. “They are welcome to do that, but they are not welcome to impose that kind of pressure on a sovereign nation. And I find it revolting that they think they have the right to do such a thing.”

“Revolting” was an apt word, particularly in view of President Emmanuel Macron’s increasingly hostile attitude toward Israel in general and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in particular. Not to mention his growing sympathy for Hamas, which he expresses by repeatedly perpetuating the terrorist group’s propaganda.

https://www.spiked-online.com/2025/06/02/the-jew-burning-in-colorado-speaks-to-the-wests-fascistic-turn/

They’re burning Jews again. Yesterday, in Boulder, Colorado, a man used a makeshift flamethrower and Molotov cocktails to try to incinerate Jews. Eight people, aged 52 to 88, were injured. Their ‘crime’? They had gathered in public to call for the release of the Israeli hostages. In Europe in the 1930s it was punishable by death to assist the wretched Jews. It seems that in America in the 2020s there are people who dream of resuscitating that grim, violent punishment for Jew sympathy.

It was a truly nauseating assault. The suspect has been named as Mohamed Soliman. He’s reportedly an illegal immigrant from Egypt. He is alleged to have doused the people at the vigil in a flammable liquid and then sprayed them with flames. He ‘set people on fire’, as CNN bluntly put it. Read that again. In the US in 2025, a gathering of people expressing solidarity with the Jewish victims of neo-fascism was set on fire. Video footage shows the suspect holding a combustible cocktail in each hand as he yells ‘Free Palestine!’. At his feet lie the scorched Jews.

It is being reported that the oldest victim, who is 88, is a refugee from Nazi-era Europe. She is a ‘very loving person’, said a local rabbi. The moral enormity of that feels overwhelming. Someone who escaped the mass Jew-burning of 1940s Europe falls victim to a new kind of Jew-burning in 21st-century America. Someone whose relatives were reduced to ash by Nazis finds herself ‘set on fire’ by a supposed Palestine activist in modern-day Colorado. It will be a dark day for humanity if the American republic, once a safe haven for Jews fleeing the derangements of the Old World, becomes infected by the fiery ancient hatred for the Jewish people.

The FBI is calling it a suspected terror attack. Israel’s foreign minister, Gideon Sa’ar, says it was an act of ‘pure anti-Semitism’. We’ve tried to warn the world about chants like ‘Globalise the intifada’, said Ted Deutch of the American Jewish Committee. He says these burned Jews are the end result of that fevered cry to internationalise Hamas’s violent loathing for the Jewish homeland. Jews in America are nervous. Understandably. Just 10 days ago two people were shot dead as they left a Jewish event in Washington, DC, also by a man barking ‘Free Palestine!’. And now this.

The FBI says the suspect in the Colorado Jew-burning acted alone. It should go without saying that he’s the only one responsible for the terror and the burns inflicted on those poor people. And yet he did not strike in a vacuum. In the 20 months since Hamas’s pogrom of 7 October 2023, we’ve witnessed the savage demonisation of anyone who offers solidarity to the Israeli hostages. ‘Kidnapped’ posters featuring photos of the hostages have been defaced and destroyed. Some were graffitied with the word ‘colonialist’ and even Hitler moustaches. Yellow ribbons for the hostages have been torn down.

Calling for the freeing of the hostages has come to be seen as a suspect act. Even calling them ‘hostages’ is a risky business – they’re ‘prisoners of war’, cry the West’s legion Israelophobes. Sympathy for the hostages is a thin disguise for ‘genocidal sentiment’, say anti-Israel agitators. The hatred for the Jewish State among the activist classes has become so furious, so unhinged, that even sympathy with the Jewish State’s citizens is viewed as murderous lunacy. That people calling for the release of the hostages were so brutally assaulted in Colorado is profoundly shocking. But – and it feels gross even to say this – it is not wholly surprising.

It feels like we are living through something even worse than a resurgence of the oldest racism – it’s as if there has been a fascistic turn in the West. Consider some of the horrors of the last fortnight alone. A Jewish woman in DC slain as she desperately tried to crawl away from the man pumping bullets into her. Three synagogues and a Holocaust memorial vandalised in Paris. A Jewish schoolkid taken to hospital following a violent attack on the London Tube. A Jewish-owned business wrecked by vandals in London’s Stamford Hill. And now Jews ‘set on fire’. And throughout, that constant noise: the sound of armies of activists denouncing the Jewish nation as the wickedest nation, the spiller of babies’ blood, the nefarious controller of world affairs. The medieval echo grows louder. The darkness spreads.

Some of these grim acts involved the cry of ‘Free Palestine!’. Some said it, others spraypainted it. Isn’t it remarkable that so much of what is done in the supposed name of ‘freeing Palestine’ has the distinctive whiff of fascist hatred to it? The broken glass of Jewish businesses, the desecration of synagogues, the murder of Jews, Jews on fire. These assaulters and activists can cry ‘Free Palestine’ as much as they like – to some of us, if it looks like fascism and quacks like fascism, maybe it’s fucking fascism.

https://amgreatness.com/2025/06/03/genocide-in-gaza-is-a-blood-libel-lie-and-the-people-spreading-it-are-encouraging-terror-attacks-in-the-usa/

It is de rigueur today in certain circles to state as a matter of proven fact that Israel is committing “genocide” in Gaza. This is a lie. I’ll explain why below, but first I want to explain just how pernicious and awful that lie actually is.

Genocide is the worst crime any nation or group of people can ever commit. The Oxford Languages Dictionary defines genocide as “the deliberate killing of a large number of people from a particular nation or ethnic group with the aim of destroying that nation or group.” In 2025, there is no more heinous crime than engaging in genocide. It is the very worst thing in the modern world, and moral people everywhere know that virtually any means of violence are justified in stopping actual, genuine genocide.

Which explains the illegal alien Egyptian who firebombed Holocaust survivors in Boulder, and the pro-Hamas activist who tried to burn down a Jewish governor’s official residence, and another pro-Hamas activist who gunned down two Israeli embassy workers at the Capital Jewish Museum. They thought they were fighting to end genocide. You see, to the men who perpetrated these crimes, they were entirely justified in what they did because their actions were moral, just, and necessary to end a “genocide.” There is a certain level of seemingly rational and moral thought there.

Except.

Except for the fact that “Gaza genocide” is a lie, and the people spreading that lie are partially responsible for the crimes these three men committed.

https://www.spiked-online.com/2025/05/31/where-have-all-the-jews-gone/

The killing of two young Israeli embassy staffers, allegedly by a college-educated, left-wing activist earlier this month, provided yet more evidence – if any were needed – of the perilous situation in which Western Jews now find themselves. Almost a century after the early rise of the Nazis, it seems anti-Semitism is on a roll again. And it is energised increasingly by campus-minted radicals in academia, the media and the culture at large.

Elias Rodriguez, the suspected assassin, is a case in point. He attended the Chicago campus of the University of Illinois, where he studied English, a shrinking discipline largely captured by ‘progressives’ and their narratives. Rodriguez, as a Hispanic, no doubt felt part of those supposedly ‘oppressed’ by the oppressor white establishment, which now includes Jews.

After his education (or perhaps indoctrination), Rodriguez worked for leftist non-profits, supported Black Lives Matter and later enjoyed a dalliance with the communist Party for Socialism and Liberation, a vehemently anti-Israel group. He epitomises the shift in the sociology of anti-Semitism, from the ill-educated far right to left-leaning college graduates.

Once the beloved object of Jewish ardour, universities are now one of the principal sources of anti-Semitic inculcation. Countless courses actively promulgate anti-Jewish and Israelophobic tropes. This is hardly a surprise given the generous funding leading universities have received from brutal Islamic states, such as Saudi Arabia and Qatar.

Given the extent of ideological indoctrination it’s no surprise that young Americans are far more likely than older cohorts to side with the Palestinians than with Israel. Indeed, the longer young people stay in education, notes a recent Anti-Defamation League study, the more likely they are to adopt anti-Israel and anti-Semitic views. Further research shows that this trend is particularly pronounced among minorities.

The growth of anti-Israel sentiment among young people is not based on any increase in knowledge about the situation in the Middle East. Indeed, the majority of people under 25 wrongly think Israel, not Hamas, has controlled Gaza over the past decade.

Whatever one thinks of Donald Trump’s assault on academia in the name of combatting anti-Semitism, there’s little doubt that elite Ivy League schools have a serious problem. In the immediate aftermath of the 7 October atrocities, Harvard student organisations openly excused Hamas and blamed Israel for the rape and murder of its own citizens. At Cornell University, one professor called Hamas’s pogrom ‘exhilarating’ and ‘energising’. And since then, across campuses, professors and students alike shout about ‘globalising the intifada’ – a cry that justifies the harassment, and even murder, of Jews everywhere.

There has been some pushback. This May, Jewish students filed a lawsuit against George Washington University in Washington, DC, not far from the site of the alleged murder of the two Israeli embassy staffers. They accuse GWU of violating Title VI of the Civil Rights Act by allowing a ‘hostile educational environment’ for Jews to develop over several years, particularly since 7 October 2023.

Similarly, the Louis D Brandeis Centre for Human Rights Under Law and Jewish Americans for Fairness have filed a lawsuit against Berkeley, alleging ‘longstanding, unchecked’ anti-Semitism. This includes attempts by 23 student organisations at UC Berkeley’s School of Law to mandate support for the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement, which demonises Israel as an ‘apartheid state’ and calls for its economic and cultural isolation. The student organisations also called for ‘Palestine 101 training’, and the banning of speakers with Zionist views.

The takeover of universities by the Israelophobes bodes ill for the future. Self-righteous authoritarianism has often attracted academics, as was clear in Nazi Germany and among the supporters of Communism throughout the West well into this century. And what is nurtured in universities does not stay there. The frothing violent fringe of campus activism is becoming increasingly mainstream.

It means that Hebrew schools and synagogues, including my own in California, are now routinely patrolled by private police. At local community events, we count on the Orange County sheriffs much as Rome’s Jews have to rely on the carabinieri to guard their own cities’ famed Jewish ghetto.

https://www.commentary.org/john-podhoretz/terrorist-attack-on-jews-in-washington/?utm_medium=email&_hsenc=p2ANqtz-

Unspeakable news out of D.C.—a man named Elias Rodriguez of Chicago yelling “Free, Free Palestine” opened fire at an event at the entrance to the Capital Jewish Museum. Two Israeli Embassy officials—a young couple about to be engaged next week in Jerusalem, according to a powerful and teary-voiced statement by Israeli ambassador to the United States Yechiel Leiter—were murdered. The invaluable Josh Kraushaar of Jewish Insider notes the discovery of the pseudonymous Xer AG that Rodriguez is part of a group called “The Party of Socialism and Liberation.”

This is a different kind of event from the attacks on synagogues in Pennsylvania and California in 2018, which were the work of white supremacists. It happened at a secular Jewish site, and targeted an event sponsored by the American Jewish Committee for young diplomats. And it was self-evidently an act of anti-Semitic terror in the nation’s capital—which raises similarities to the 2015 attack on the Hyper Casher supermarket in France’s capital, Paris. The only analogue here I can think of was the invasion of the headquarters of the B’nai Brith in D.C. in 1977 by Hanafi Muslims, during which 104 staffers at the Jewish organization—including my wife’s cousin, William Korey, an expert on Soviet Jewry—were held hostage for three days and repeatedly threatened with execution and torture. Two other buildings in D.C. were invaded as well, and a security guard at one of them was shot in the head and killed.

The terrorist leader was a convert to Islam critical of the Nation of Islam whose family was murdered in 1973—and who chose to blame the “Jewish judge” in charge of the conviction of the Farrakhanites who actually committed the killngs. He also demanded the suppression and burning of a movie called Mohammed, Messenger of God on the grounds that any depiction of the founder of Islam was a sacrilege—an eerie foreshadowing of the killing of the staffers at Charlie Hebdo magazine for publishing cartoons making fun of Muhammad, which took place in Paris two days before the attack on the supermarket in 2015. The leader gave up after three days; Bill Korey told me 30 years later that he still had nightmares about his captivity, a classic case of PTSD.