On Sunday, we had a horrific story out of Boulder, Colorado. Elderly women and men – one a Holocaust survivor – were set on fire in an attempt to burn them to death in a vile, antisemitic terror attack.
Have you checked in on your Jewish friends? I can’t imagine what it was like for them to go to synagogue this past weekend. This keeps happening, and it doesn’t change the national conversation. There are zero calls, in fact, for a national conversation to take place.
It is not dominating news coverage the way a mass shooting or a single attack by a white person on a single black person would. It is not even the top story right now on The New York Times website. In legacy media, they don’t see the pattern between this, the murder of a young couple leaving a Jewish event in Washington, D.C., late last month, and the arson attack at the Pennsylvania governor’s mansion – home to Gov. Josh Shapiro and his family, who are Jewish – on the first night of Passover. And let’s face it, the corporate media’s sympathies are entirely with the Hamas defenders for some weird reason.
The Terror Attack
The attack happened Sunday around 3:30 p.m. in Boulder. Since November 2023, the group “Run for Their Lives,” made up of mostly elderly residents, have been holding a weekly gathering to show solidarity with the Israeli and American hostages being held captive by Hamas in Gaza. A witness named Ryan told MSNBC the suspect may have been posing as a gardener and pretending to do yard work before he began his attack.
According to the NBC affiliate in Denver, eight people – ages 52 to 88 – were injured (at least one seriously). One of the victims is reportedly a Holocaust refugee who fled from Europe to escape the Nazis. Think of what that woman has seen in the course of her life, and now, at nearly 90, she is burned in Boulder by a Jew hater, an anti-Zionist.
What are we coming to? How does that happen?
On the streets of Boulder – one of our most liberal cities – a guy was setting people on fire in front of, for what it’s worth, a Pride flag. In some images, you could see Good Samaritans tending a victim by pouring water on her injuries. On the ground around her was what looked like an Israeli flag, a flyer with the face of a hostage, and an American flag. She was out there to remind people that there are hostages who are suffering, and she was made to suffer herself.
The eyewitness also described the injuries that the victim suffered. It was hard to listen to, but we must in order to understand exactly what this guy did. He said there was a man whose leg, “from ankle or foot all the way up to his buttocks, was melted.” He recalled another woman with “burns over her hands, ankles, feet, elbows.” He said they all appeared “stunned” and “confused.”
The suspect was caught on camera during the attack, and the video was widely shared on social media. I almost couldn’t believe my eyes watching it. He had already unleashed the carnage, but he was still out there threatening and holding what appeared to be bottles that were about to become Molotov cocktails. This was after he had hurt the people. He was shirtless and shouting “How many people have you killed,” “End Zionists,” “Palestine is free,” and “They are killers.”
The Suspect
Here is what we know now about the suspect. His name is Mohamed Sabry Soliman. He is 45 years old and came to the U.S. from Egypt in 2022 on a non-immigrant visa. He was supposed to leave the U.S. six months later, but he never did.
According to Fox News’ Bill Melugin, the Biden administration gave him a work authorization about one month after he overstayed his visa to remain in the country until March 2025. March came and went, and he remained, once again, illegally in this country.
Stephen Miller, President Trump’s deputy chief of staff, said it best on X. “A terror attack was committed in Boulder, Colorado by an illegal alien. He was granted a tourist visa by the Biden Administration and then he illegally overstayed that visa. In response, the Biden Administration gave him a work permit. Suicidal migration must be fully reversed,” he posted.
Identifying Terrorism
FBI Director Kash Patel wasted no time calling it a “targeted terror attack” on X because he has eyes and ears. FBI Deputy Director Dan Bongino followed up with the same message. Colorado’s Democratic Gov. Jarad Polis called it an “act of terror.” It is not a particularly controversial thing to say, but Boulder’s police chief – nearly three hours after the attack and after the video emerged on social media – still wasn’t sure whether we could call it terrorism and really wasn’t sure what the motive was.
“I’ve been in contact with our local FBI multiple times. We are in contact with them here. We are not calling it a terror attack at this point. Again, it’s way too early to speculate motive, Boulder Police Chief Steve Redfearn told reporters on Sunday. “You know, I know there’s a lot out there on social media, but I ask people just to give us a little bit of patience while we work through a really complex scene.”
And of course, that was all some of the national media needed in order to try to downplay this event. CNN law enforcement analyst (they are using that term very loosely) Juliette Kayyem had this to say about Patel and Bongino’s assessment.
“It makes the FBI look so juvenile. Like, why are you getting ahead of the police chief who says, ‘I don’t know what this is,'” Kayyem asked. “That’s like nothing I’ve ever seen before… Until we know that the victims were members… of the Jewish event, we don’t have the nexus. And I will believe the Denver police chief that they do not have that nexus now. And if they do, I will be the first one out here saying that that is a hate crime. But until we do, we all need to not follow the FBI tweets.”
You are an idiot. You are a partisan hack, idiot. It’s “juvenile” to state what everyone can easily see and hear for themselves? The chants he was shouting seem pretty on the nose. And let’s see, did he target a meeting of the NAACP so that we are kind of confused on the motive? No, he targeted a march that has been going on weekly for years now that is in support of the Israeli and American hostages being held by Hamas. It seems kind of on the nose. I wouldn’t call it “juvenile” to respond with, “This was a terror attack.”
To me, it seems pretty clear. And thank God it seems clear to the Trump administration. We have had absolute moral clarity from Kash Patel and Dan Bongino, no matter how cowardly the local police seem to be.
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