#boulder attack

[katesofheaven]

Oh okay! Oh sure! Okay yeah! No for sure! Yeah everything about this is correct and good and fine

[deskuvro]

I’ve seen people kindly asking where they can donate to help the victims of the attack on the Run for Their Lives group in Boulder.

You can donate here:

JEWISHcolorado Boulder Security Fund

JEWISHcolorado has opened the Boulder Security Fund in the wake of the attacks at the Run For Their Lives event in Boulder, Colorado.

It’s a general security fund they’ve put together which will go directly to the victims and help pay for security.

Despite it all, we’re still having the annual Jewish Festival this Sunday, right on the same street where the attack was. So you all stay strong, too.

[mossadspypigeon]

a chabad rabbi and holocaust survivor is one of the victims of the attack in boulder. please pray for him and the 7 other victims, all jewish elders.

i also want to say something: i basically got cancelled for telling people off on here for being abnormal about the orthodox and i want you all to know i’d do it again.

jumblr has a bias against orthodox jews and i said what i fucking said.

the jews who get the BRUNT of the shit? orthodox, israelis, and our elders. the rest of us get shit, get a ton of it even, but it’s different when you are the most visible in a marginalized group.

i can list at least a dozen hate crimes against orthodox jews that have happened over the last 5 years and there have been thousands more. orthodox jews get medical discrimination, systemic oppression, have their kids targeted and taken away. they’re the most visible of us and therefore face so much. SO MUCH.

so yes, i will fight you for them when you’re generalizing them, talking over them, dismissing them, etc, even if i dont agree with them on every political issue. it’s bad enough what they deal with from non jews, but their own people? absolutely not. they deserve better.

refuah shlema to rav israel wilhelm and our seven other injured elders.

[gayalfredprufrock]

im crying there is a tiny exclamation point because bluesky labelled this !⃝Rude ????????? like i imagine they were reported at some point and bluesky was like "hmmm.... idk if we really have the spine to stand up to antisemitism.... but it's definitely !⃝ Rude" which is just so fucking funny to me and it's like the tiniest font ever

and then i went to their profile and their entire profile is labeled !⃝Rude and all of their posts have to be clicked to be seen because they are all !⃝Rude. this is the funniest thing i've seen today. imagine how devastating to the ego it must be to be a harrasser and hate speech extraordinaire and you don't get anything removed you just get everything labeled !⃝Rude. i am actually in tears

[aspiringwarriorlibrarian]

Ah yes, because if there's one thing that would "free Palestine", it's an undocumented Egyptian migrant setting innocent Jews on fire.

What a repulsive act. If he really gave a shit about Palestine or Gaza he'd have thought up an act that would have actually helped them, like targeting an arms manufacturer or a politician that directly earned money from the war. Instead he responds by targeting the most vulnerable and least to blame, as though that doesn't make him just as vile as the people withholding food aid to Gazans because they're ruled by Hamas.

[the-garbanzo-annex-jr]

I Saw My Friends Set on Fire in Boulder

‘Once the flames went out, I looked around at the ambulances and came to a sobering conclusion: Free Palestine has become a rallying cry for

by Ed Victor

On Sunday, Mohamed Sabry Soliman allegedly hurled two lit Molotov cocktails at a group of peaceful protesters in Boulder, Colorado, who gather each Sunday to demand the release of the 58 hostages still held by Hamas in Gaza. As Soliman, a 45-year-old Egyptian national, threw his homemade bombs at the group, consisting of families and the elderly, he shouted “Free Palestine,” “End Zionists,” and “How many children have you killed?”

Fifteen people were injured in what authorities quickly called a “terror attack.” One of the victims was an 88-year-old Holocaust survivor.

Soliman later said that he had “no regrets” over the attack and that he “wanted them all to die.” He had allegedly been planning the attack for over a year. He tried to purchase a gun but was denied because of his status as an illegal migrant, according to authorities.

Ed Victor, 57, who recently retired from a tech career, was there that day—like every Sunday—and he was extremely lucky to have walked away without any injuries. As you’ll read below, though, witnessing the terror attack up close was an experience that “unquestionably changed” him forever.

I heard a glass break. Then the first thing I felt was the heat. It came out of nowhere. Then I looked to my left, and the older woman near me was on fire.

She crumpled to the ground, the flames following her. This all happened in no more than two to three seconds.

The next few minutes—it couldn’t have been more than one or two—felt like an eternity. My world completely narrowed, rendering me oblivious to my surroundings, to the shirtless man not more than 15 feet away who was yelling “Free Palestine” at us and who had another firebomb in his hand. It never dawned on me that I might be in danger, too, until later that day when I watched a video of the scene that showed me with my back turned to the man, completely unaware of his presence. “Run away!” I told myself through the screen, watching the video. But in the moment, I didn’t. I couldn’t.

My Boy Scouts training from nearly four decades ago kicked in. I saw a fire, and I knew the only way to get out of it was to smother it. There was no water around, from what I could see, but I could also smell the subtle hint of gasoline. Water would never work to put this kind of fire out, I knew. I looked for something, anything I could find. A few Israeli or American flags strewn on the ground—no, they were too thin. So I grabbed the banner, the one we marched behind every Sunday, which read “LET THEM GO NOW.” I was concerned that it could be made of a synthetic material—“What if it lights on fire? We could create a fireball,” I feared. But there was no time, and nothing else in sight I could possibly use, so two others and I laid the banner on top of the agonized woman, trying to put out the flames all over her body.

Once the flames went out, one of my friends who had medical training began tending to the older woman and her wounds. By this point her clothes were tattered, and I noticed burns across her body.

My attention then turned to her husband, an older man standing beside her when the fire erupted. His leg was badly burned, and he watched as his wife lay on the ground in utter pain. He screamed. I can’t remember what he said, but he was distraught beyond distraught.

When the first responders finally arrived, I watched him get loaded into an ambulance. Eventually, I learned he was taken by helicopter to a local hospital.

Last Sunday had begun like any other. It was an overcast spring day. I woke up, put on a shirt, shorts, and a pair of Tevas, and drove from my home in a nearby suburb to Boulder’s Pearl Street Mall to join in the Run for Their Lives walk. I had been to the gathering every Sunday since September 2024, since a visit I took to Israel made me realize how important it was to keep the hostages’ names alive, to show that there were people fighting for them. To me, this rally never had anything to do with Israel. It was always about the hostages still in Gaza.

What bystanders normally notice about our walk is that we are completely quiet. People often hold pictures of hostages, some who have died, and some who are still being held by Hamas in Gaza—now for over 600 days. It wasn’t uncommon for a few bystanders to offer up nods of support or for others to shout “Free Palestine” at us as we walked. We were always instructed not to respond or react to it, so I learned to ignore these things. I never felt unsafe. I never imagined I would feel unsafe walking in downtown Boulder.

The attack occurred just as we gathered in front of the Boulder courthouse to read out the names of the hostages, both those who have been murdered by Hamas and those still held in captivity, and just before we were to sing together the Israeli national anthem, Hatikvah, which literally translates in English to “The Hope.”

I can’t remember much from the time I felt that sensation of heat to the moment that I found myself going from ambulance to ambulance, trying to gather the names of the injured and find out which hospitals they were being taken to so that I could communicate that information to our friends and their families. By the time I finally looked up and took in my surroundings, I could see police putting up caution tape around the area where I had just been standing minutes before. Police were speaking to witnesses.

The man who allegedly threw the firebomb had already been arrested and taken away. As for me, I’ve put up my own internal caution tape. I may never feel comfortable going back to that spot again, though I plan to try and rejoin the march this coming Sunday, one week after the attack. I don’t think I’ll ever be able to go back to that exact space and feel normal. This has unquestionably changed me.

If anyone asks me about how I’m doing, I say I’m okay. But if I dig a little deeper, I’m sad, angry, and outraged. Upon reflection, I have come to realize that “Free Palestine” can mean something for those who want a Palestinian state, but it has also become a rallying cry for killing the Jews. It was the rallying cry for the two people gunned down in Washington, D.C., just two weeks ago. It was the rallying cry in Boulder. That is not okay, and I don’t know what to do about it.

[estera-shirin]

Logged back onto my phone after Shavuot (which is one day here in the Land) to see that there was an antisemitic attack in Colorado on a Jewish event raising awareness for Israeli hostages. The attacker used an improvised flamethrower and injured eight people. One of the victims is a Holocaust survivor. Praying that everyone survives and makes a full recovery.

I am so afraid for our community (I am American, just abroad rn). And the particular visceral horror of a group of Jews being set on fire, with our history, is hitting me really hard aside. This violence is terrorizing Jews regardless of political affiliation, and it is not going to help Palestinians to kill random American Jews. The violence must end. May we all live in safety and freedom. May no person live in fear for their life. Sending my love to you all

[jewish-microwave-laser]

even more news talked about the boulder colorado attack and idk maybe they get to it eventually (i doubt it but i clicked off so who knows) but other than saying It Is Antisemitic, they dont talk about the antisemitism if that makes sense???

*note anyone who says "well what did you expect" will be blocked. please work on your sympathy skills