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Yesterday’s horrific attack in Boulder, Colorado, WILL NOT BE TOLERATED in the United States of America. He came in through Biden’s ridiculous Open Border Policy, which has hurt our Country so badly. He must go out under “TRUMP” Policy. Acts of Terrorism will be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the Law. This is yet another example of why we must keep our Borders SECURE, and deport Illegal, Anti-American Radicals from our Homeland. My heart goes out to the victims of this terrible tragedy, and the Great People of Boulder, Colorado!
Ed: All true, and yet this DoJ seems too reticent to take control of this clear case of domestic terrorism. Don't leave this for Colorado's local prosecutors -- make sure Soliman spends the rest of his miserable life in a Supermax and that his family bears the financial burden of restitution. Do that often enough and the disincentives will have a real effect.
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Joe Biden foolishly let the alleged terrorist in Colorado into our country through his reckless immigration policies.
— Karoline Leavitt (@PressSec) June 2, 2025
And instead of deporting him after his visa expired – the Biden Administration let this monster stay in America.
President Trump is putting a stop to this… pic.twitter.com/q8iGhMlnHc
Ed: How many more Solimans are there? Will it take more arsons to find out?
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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?
Ed: It only happened in Pallywood -- the Palestinian PR apparatus that Hamas has largely co-opted in Gaza. They use the same actors over and over again as victims, corpses, journalists, and so on. And the gullible Left and the Protection Racket Media keep eating it up time after time.
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CNN national security analyst Juliette Kayyam also criticized Patel and FBI Deputy Director Dan Bongino for calling the attack terrorism, accusing them of getting “way ahead” of local agencies.
“I’m going to be quite direct here. The FBI director and deputy director got way ahead of where the local police were. The language that the FBI used in their tweets included words like ‘violence,’ ‘targeted terrorism’ and ‘violent.’ They got ahead of where the local police knew where the investigation was,” Kayyam said. “I know — I want to just make it clear here. This could have been an anti-Semitic attack, which is terrifying, in particular for people in the community. We don’t know that because the Boulder Police officer, at least according to the Boulder Police officer, they’re not sure if the people injured were people at the the Jewish rally, the Jewish gathering. Now, maybe others in organizations know that. We know ADL and other organizations have been out on this. Maybe they have more evidence.”
Ed: YGBFKM. Maybe they just looked at the video -- widely available well before this CNN conversation -- and saw the perp screaming "Free Palestine" and other slogans before setting people on fire with Molotov cocktails. The same morons who leapt to the conclusion that Elon Musk meant a wave as a Nazi salute now want to argue that we are supposed to ignore actual evidence.
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"What are we coming to? How does that happen?"@MegynKelly on left and media trying to bury yet another anti-Jewish terror attack in America, now by an illegal immigrant.
— The Megyn Kelly Show (@MegynKellyShow) June 2, 2025
Watch below, and subscribe:https://t.co/Y12z2uLeBJ pic.twitter.com/88P7NvUisH
KELLY (~ 11:45 mark): You're an idiot ... Oh my God ... You're a partisan hack idiot.
Ed: Yeah, can't improve on that.
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Soliman’s assault is the third high-profile anti-Israel and anti-Semitic terror attack in the U.S. in recent months. It follows the double murder outside of the Washington, D.C. Jewish Museum less than ten days ago and the attempted firebombing of Pennsylvania governor Josh Shapiro’s home in April. The increasing tempo of violence makes the pattern hard to ignore: the American anti-Israel movement has radicalized.
It is also hard not to draw a connection between the rhetoric used by radical protesters over the past two years and the recent wave of violence. “There is only one solution,” students and marchers have chanted, “Intifada! Revolution!” This—lighting humans on fire to advance your political goals—is what an Intifada looks like. And until we treat it as such, and respond with the full force of the law, it will continue to endanger lives.
Ed: The last twenty months have proven this argument. We didn't apply consequences for crimes and intimidation campaigns, and that allowed the Globalize the Intifada movement to metastasize. Now we have to cut it out of the body politic as forcefully as possible to ensure their cancer does not spread any further.
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From @NateSilver538, this is Democrats' problem in a nutshell. pic.twitter.com/95Jhbvc9ts
— Robby Soave (@robbysoave) June 2, 2025
Ed: This explains their weird connection to terrorist movements as fashion or fad, too.
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Shortly after 11 p.m. on April 19, 2024, a group of people gathered to chant together on Broadway, just outside the Columbia University campus. A reporter for The Free Press recorded the chant, and I quoted it in “Springtime for Sinwar,” an essay in Quillette about the campus demonstrations. There is a vile clarity and frankness to the unadulterated hatred and support for Hamas evident in this well-practiced chorus. While wearing masks and keffiyehs, the assembled chanted the following:
Al-Qassam, make us proud! Kill another soldier now!
We say Justice, you say How? Burn Tel Aviv to the ground!
Hamas, Hamas, we love you! We support your rockets too!
Red, black, green, and white! We support Hamas’s fight!
It is right to rebel! Al-Qassam, give them hell!
It is right to rebel! Hamas, Hamas, give them hell!
FREEEEE, FREE PALESTINE!!
FREE, FREE, FREE PALESTINE!!
Who were those people? How many other people who took part in the pro-Hamas demonstrations of the past 18 months share their views? Chances are that people who “love” Hamas approve of the murders of Yaron Lischinsky and Sarah Milgrim. How many of them have guns and are making plans to use them?
Ed: How many of them are making firebombs ... and other bombs?
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🚨Tara Palmeri tells Scott Jennings that violence comes from the extremes of the Democrat Party AND the Republican Party.
— Townhall.com (@townhallcom) June 2, 2025
Scott Jennings says that radicalized violence is PRIMARILY on the Left.
Who's right? pic.twitter.com/miG6leVjA4
Ed: Tara isn't entirely wrong, but violence is not as mainstreamed on the Right as it is on the Left. It's certainly not nearly as romanticized on the Right as it is on the Left.
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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?
— Guy Benson (@guypbenson) June 2, 2025
Ed: That's the answer to Tara Palmeri's question.
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Update from Ed: I'm giving myself (and Seth Liebsohn) the final Final word, because RHIP.
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