Amber Duke, Senior Editor, Daily Caller
A group of elderly folks were marching Sunday in a weekly event in Boulder, Colorado, to support the hostages taken by Hamas during the terror group’s attack on Israel on October 7, 2023.
Their activism ended in terror as an enraged pro-Palestinian Egyptian illegal immigrant used a “makeshift flamethrower” and molotov cocktails to burn members of the group. Eight victims, ranging in age from 52 to 88, were sent to the hospital.
A video shows the suspect yelling “end Zionists” and “free Palestine” in the aftermath of the attack. Nearby, a woman is curled up in the fetal position as bystanders attempt to help her.
In an interview with police, Mohamed Soliman stated that he planned the attack and that he wanted to kill all Zionists.
Just a few weeks ago, a different man shouted “free Palestine” after murdering two Jewish people, an Israeli diplomat and a staff member, in Washington, DC.
These attacks are the extreme end of much of the pro-Palestinian activism taking place on college campuses around the country. Student groups valorized the October 7 attacks — which included mass rape and murder — as acts of justified resistance, created no-go zones for Jewish students, and seized university property to call for an end to Zionism.
As of writing of this newsletter, Students for Justice in Palestine’s national group did not condemn the Boulder attacker or post about the incident at all on their highly active Instagram account.
We have freedom of speech in our country. People are allowed to criticize Israel. Where that stops is law-breaking and violence. A commitment to the First Amendment does not obligate the U.S. to allow radicals on student visas to benefit from a U.S. education while stoking hatred. It also doesn’t necessitate federal funding going to institutions that promote this nonsense or look the other way.
“If a right-wing movement had burned down a governor’s mansion, murdered two foreign diplomats & firebombed kids and elderly people at a peaceful protest — in the span of a few weeks — what would the coverage look like? What sort of ‘national conversation’ would we be having?” Fox News commentator Guy Benson asked on X.
Soliman, meanwhile, had overstayed a travel visa that was granted to him during the Biden administration and was in the country illegally. That didn’t stop him from getting a work permit, which he also overstayed before trying to murder as many mourning people as he could.
Trump’s mass deportation program isn’t cruel. It’s a necessity. The Biden administration allowed nearly 100 illegal immigrants on the terror watch list to enter our country. How many like Soliman, who may not have been on a watch list but was nonetheless hostile to western civilization, are roaming freely around our country? How many people are here that would flee the scene after fatally killing an Air Force cadet on a jet ski? How many would senselessly kill a woman minding her own business in her car? Even one is too many, of course.
The true cruelty would be to allow people who have shown zero respect for the U.S. and its laws to stay.
Between mass migration and the grooming of young people into quasi-terror groups in the university system, America is facing a serious radicalization problem. It must be dealt with swiftly and with uncompromising force — or we risk seeing more elderly women with their calves burned off by some psychopath.