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By now you might have seen some reports of SJP at University of Colorado Boulder celebrating the murder of 82 year old Karen Diamond. Here are some screenshots of the statement (that is still available on their website whose url is visible in the screenshots):
They’re disturbing so here’s a line break
This SJP chapter no longer receives funding from the school, but they do continue to organize regularly on campus.
Additionally, CU Boulder has a group of faculty and professors called FSJP . This organization is petitioning to have SJP reinstated as a student organization in good standing:
Update 2- To be clear, the statement is definitely still up at the link bouldersjp.neocities.org/mohamed, but I can’t navigate to it from their homepage.
In case they do take it down, I have downloaded the statement in full.
This is absolutely unacceptable speech from students enrolled in any university, and it’s even more disturbing that professors who condone this statement are teaching classes.
PUBLIC STATEMENT · 06/01/2026
FREE MOHAMED SABRY SOLIMAN
One year ago today, Mohamed Sabry Soliman took direct action against the Zionist death cult festering in our city. He struck against the colonist procession that gathers weekly to celebrate the pretext for ongoing genocide.
CHICKENS COMING HOME TO ROOST
ABOLISH ICE
VICTORY TO THE RESISTANCE
06/01/2026
BOULDER STUDENTS FOR JUSTICE IN PALESTINE
STATEMENT OF SOLIDARITY
One year ago today, on June 1st, 2025, Mohamed Sabry Soliman took direct action against one manifestation of the Zionist death cult that we have allowed to fester in our city and our state. He hurled a molotov cocktail into the heart of the Run for Their Lives march in Boulder, striking against the colonist procession that gathers weekly to celebrate the pretext for ongoing genocide.
A CASE OF CHICKENS COMING HOME TO ROOST.
The colonists present at the Run for Their Lives procession each week carry posters celebrating war criminals who have served as the pretext for the systematic extermination of the Palestinian people since Operation Al-Aqsa Flood. When community members confronted those at Run for Their Lives with cries of "Stop killing kids!", the marchers responded with proud declarations that they wished death upon every child in Gaza, while flanked comfortably with a police escort.
The state would have us believe that Mohamed took the action he did because he is insane—a fanatic, a terrorist, guilty of a hate crime—but we know the truth and we reject the state's inversion of it. Mohamed chose the only sane response available to a rational human being confronted with the normalization of genocide. He refused the comfortable position of the grateful immigrant and the role of obedient subject, choosing confrontation with a violent system over passive proximity to the comfort of empire.
We reject the distinction between speech and material force. The Run for Their Lives procession functions as a mechanism for normalizing the celebration of mass killers, rendering ordinary the sight of war criminals treated as heroes on streets that sit upon stolen land. Mohamed refused their normalization with direct action. He chose to treat the manifestation of Zionist violence as the lethal threat it actually constitutes.
Boulder Students for Justice in Palestine stands in solidarity with Mohamed Sabry Soliman. We condemn the eight consecutive life sentences imposed by Colorado courts early last month. We condemn all attempts by the federal government to assassinate him. We honor a man who sacrificed his comfort and his proximity to empire, willingly expending his own liberty in attaining his objective.
We unequivocally condemn the federal agencies that seized his family within hours of his arrest and imprisoned them for nearly one year until their release last month. The seizure of Mohamed's family by ICE reveals immigration enforcement as an instrument of collective punishment—a tactic of the colonizer applied here as it is in Gaza.
Prosecutors added hate crime and terrorism enhancements to Mohamed's charges—the same legal mechanisms consistently deployed against Arabs and Muslims in the United States since 2001. These charges demand that observers view resistance to genocide as equivalent to the systematic extermination of the Palestinian people. We reject this framework utterly. The hatred here lies not with Mohamed, but with a legal order that characterizes resistance to genocide as "terror" while legitimizing the actual terror of the state.
No court exists within the imperial legal order to try the officers and politicians responsible for the systematic destruction of Gaza. Boulder Students for Justice in Palestine affirms that the Palestinian Resistance stands as the sole legitimate authority capable of delivering accountability for the genocidal actions of the Zionist entity. Mohamed acted alone on June 1st, compelled by the grisly realities of a war against his people and the absolute refusal of formal channels to deliver anything resembling justice.
DEMAND RELEASE
Call for the immediate release of Mohamed and the continued freedom of his family from all forms of state custody.
ABOLISH ICE
Join the call for total abolition of the agencies that kidnapped his family and operate as instruments of collective punishment.
CONTINUE THE STRUGGLE
His act of resistance obligates us to maintain unyielding opposition against every structure that normalizes occupation while enabling genocide.
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VICTORY TO THE PALESTINIAN RESISTANCE. FREEDOM FOR MOHAMED. DEATH TO SETTLER COLONIALISM IN ALL ITS FORMS.
Published by Boulder Students for Justice in Palestine · June 1, 2026
Let me know if you guys find an email campaign floating around asking UC Boulder to take action against the students and faculty responsible. I’ve searched but can’t find anything.
I went to kabbalat shabbat at an Aussie shul (reform) for the first time last week. After services, in addition to challah and pastries and tiny glasses of wine, they had hard liquor (gin, vodka, and scotch) which I have never seen before at an American shul. Is this an Aussie thing? Did I just go to square shuls in the US? Is it more common in other denominations?
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What American shuls are you going to where they *don't* have hard liquor???? For context I'm Orthodox, pretty much every Orthodox shul I've ever been to (and they've all been in either the US or Israel) has had hard liquor available during Kiddush. Some shuls would have more or less than others, some would advertise it more or less than others, but they'd all have l'chaims available if you wanted some.
It is not the fault of the United States that you don't care about and have never bothered researching your own country's queer history. The United States did not come to the government of New Zeland with guns and ships and force them to make pride month in June for some reason. That was you guys that was a you guys decision. It's also a you guys decision if you want to change it. You guys are embarrassing yourselves.
Non Americans when confronted by the fact that they willingly abandoned their own culture and history in exchange for McDonald's without any military intervention or organized government pressure on behalf of the United States at all:
just saw a 'comments' tab on someones blog you know where the following and likes tabs would be if enabled and it was just showing all the replies theyve made on peoples posts. this is fascinating when did this feature come out
if you've made replies on posts there is now a tab on your blog showing every post youve replied to and your reply.
if this is not what you want, either go to your blog and click comments and disable it from there or just go to your individual blogs setting pages. just change it from blue to grey if you dont want everyone to see your replies AND the post you're replying to
PLEASE BE ADVISED that it is set to disabled for blogs that have not made any replies but it will turn ON if you reply with that blog in the future.! i just tested it with my main, which was greyed out but it turned on the moment i left a test reply
figured i'd get the word out bc i have not seen a single mention of this and i'm sure there are plenty of people who maybe comment on things they don't want on display for everyone to see on their blog lol. you can still look at your replies with it toggled off just no one else can, like locking the following and likes list
i would like to remind everyone smugly using "usamerican" that you are not being woke or reclaiming anything you just don't understand how adjectives or languages work
It's not a problem that a word means different things in different languages. That's what languages are. It's fine. The person suggesting Yankee as a blanket replacement clearly has some interesting and terrible racial politics that they're refusing to interrogate. How do you people live like this
his death is still fresh but losing my grandfather has made me realize that we are losing generation(s) of witnesses of a period in jewish history that we desperately need to preserve. and i know we say that about shoah survivors but the generation(s) of jews that were quickly and violently ethnically cleansed from SWANA are unfortunately leaving this world too, and so are their stories. but their experiences? they have looked islamism right in the face — and they can recognize as we experience it today; it’s repeating itself and spreading beyond the region because we are not in their countries to be their scapegoats this time.
my grandfather, after 10/7/2023, would watch the news and lament, “we’re cousins, our people are cousins” at the unfolding violence. and he would also shake his head at the ceasefires, negotiations, and diplomacy, and he would throw his hands up at the accusations of genocide, ethnic cleansng, starvation, intentional targeting etc because he knew, he KNEW, he experienced firsthand, exactly what israel and other minorities in the region are dealing with — including persians — to this day. it hasn’t truly changed at its root, at all.
we are losing that testimony, that valuable and irreplaceable knowledge, too. it’s not just my grandfather, unfortunately, and i’m desperate to find more ways to preserve it while we can.
Tomorrow is Farhud Day, the day marking the violent ethnic cleansing of Iraqi Jews in 1941, equivalent to Kristallnacht and the Holocaust.
There used to be thousands of Jews in Iraq. The ancient Talmudic centers of Surah and Pumbedita were in Iraq. Jews in Iraq, and indeed most of the world, had never been treated as equal citizens, being subject to Dhimmi laws, but still the Iraqi Jewish culture flourished.
Today, it is estimated that there are only four Jews left in Iraq. Four Jews.
The Iraqi Jewish community is one of the oldest Jewish communities outside of Israel, and it was razed to the ground.
If you talk about the Holocaust but don't talk about the multiple ethnic cleansings and genocides of Jews in the SWANA region, you are being deliberately ignorant and antisemitic.
My ancestors lived and died and were buried in Iraq but I can't visit their hometowns and gravesites because they're all gone.
Was going to add this to a post I saw (the gist being a rebuttal of antizionist “separating Jews from Israel” talking points), but the app refreshed when I came back and now I can’t find the original post lol
A lot of people seem to not grasp that just because things are “different” or conceptually distinct doesn’t mean they’re entirely separate or inherently unrelated, where any relation between them is entirely arbitrary & artificial.
Are there distinctions between Jews, the state of Israel, and the land of Israel? Yes. But the relationship between these things has so much overlap that you cannot honestly fully separate them.
If I had to visualize it as a Venn diagram, it might look something like this.
Eretz Yisrael is incredibly important to Jewish history & Jewish religion, and half of all Jews reside there, as citizens of Medinat Yisrael (where most of its population is Jews, and the makeup of its government reflects that), which represents the most substantial embodiment of Am Yisrael’s political autonomy at present or in the last two millennia—which is very clearly necessary with the amount of violence Jews face—and whose borders encompass most of Eretz Yisrael.
The historical boundaries of the land of Israel are not 1-for-1 with the modern state of Israel’s borders; there are plenty of Israelis who aren’t Jews, including in the government; there are Jews living in the diaspora; some of them do not care for the state of Israel at all. So yes, these three things are different ideas. But that doesn’t change the fact that they are still tightly related in every direction, and the exceptions are statistical outliers, not normative.
It’s not that we are “conflating” these things; it’s that they are intrinsically blended concepts with inherent heavy overlap.
what this does not mean is that “any criticism of Israel is inherently antisemitic” nor that “all Jews are complicit” when Israel does something wrong.
what it does mean is that attacking Israel’s very existence as a Jewish state is an attack on Jewish political autonomy, that “criticisms” of its government which employ tropes historically used against the Jewish people are still targeting Jews with antisemitic tropes, which is antisemitic, and that Jews have every reason to call that out for what it is when they see it.
Was going to add this to a post I saw (the gist being a rebuttal of antizionist “separating Jews from Israel” talking points), but the app refreshed when I came back and now I can’t find the original post lol
A lot of people seem to not grasp that just because things are “different” or conceptually distinct doesn’t mean they’re entirely separate or inherently unrelated, where any relation between them is entirely arbitrary & artificial.
Are there distinctions between Jews, the state of Israel, and the land of Israel? Yes. But the relationship between these things has so much overlap that you cannot honestly fully separate them.
If I had to visualize it as a Venn diagram, it might look something like this.
Eretz Yisrael is incredibly important to Jewish history & Jewish religion, and half of all Jews reside there, as citizens of Medinat Yisrael (where most of its population is Jews, and the makeup of its government reflects that), which represents the most substantial embodiment of Am Yisrael’s political autonomy at present or in the last two millennia—which is very clearly necessary with the amount of violence Jews face—and whose borders encompass most of Eretz Yisrael.
The historical boundaries of the land of Israel are not 1-for-1 with the modern state of Israel’s borders; there are plenty of Israelis who aren’t Jews, including in the government; there are Jews living in the diaspora; some of them do not care for the state of Israel at all. So yes, these three things are different ideas. But that doesn’t change the fact that they are still tightly related in every direction, and the exceptions are statistical outliers, not normative.
It’s not that we are “conflating” these things; it’s that they are intrinsically blended concepts with inherent heavy overlap.
I can’t believe the thing that’s getting me back into drawing is the fact that Paralives makes it SO EASY to upload your own images into picture frames. I’m determined to have Jewish custom content in this game and if no one else is making it (as far as I’ve seen on the workshop), I guess it’s gonna have to be me
This is why I've never really bothered to make distinctions between "Zionist" and "Likudnik" and "Kahanist" and what have you. It's just putting lipstick on a very annoying pig
The problem isn't a lack of education. If you teach people the right words they'll just do the same thing but with the right words. The problem is an attitude of looking for enemies and making enemies where none exist. It's the creation of a class of person who inherently justifies their own castigation. The urge to exclude is strong, but it's hard to handle if you in any way consider yourself a moral person
Not just that, but that the combined armies of five Arab states turned out to have been beaten by JEWS. It was a humiliation on a civilizational level, when they beaten by dhimmis, people who are by their society's definitions, "lesser beings".
