US President Donald Trump said an attack on pro-Israel demonstrators in Colorado was a result of his predecessor Joe Biden’s border policy Monday, while his envoy to Israel Mike Huckabee said coverage of Gaza by major news outlets was helping fan antisemitic hatred.

Federal and state officials accused Mohamed Sabry Soliman, an Egyptian national residing in the US illegally, of hurling Molotov cocktails and attempting to use a makeshift flamethrower to attack a group of people rallying Sunday for the release of hostages kidnapped from Israel by Gazan terrorists, wounding 12 people.

Soliman “came in through Biden’s ridiculous Open Border Policy, which has hurt our Country so badly. He must go out under ‘TRUMP’ Policy,” the president wrote on his Truth Social platform.

According to the US Department of Homeland Security, Soliman, a 45-year-old Egyptian national, entered the US on a nonimmigrant visa in 2022, during Biden’s tenure, and stayed after the visa expired.

An FBI affidavit said Soliman confessed to the attack after being taken into custody following the attack Sunday and told the police he was driven by a desire “to kill all Zionist people.”

He faces charges of attempted murder and a federal hate crime charge over the attack targeting volunteers with Run for Their Lives, which organizes running and walking events to call for the immediate release of Israelis being held in Gaza.

Witnesses said Soliman yelled “Free Palestine” as he launched the attack, which came less than two weeks after the killing of two Israeli embassy workers in Washington by an attacker who shouted the same thing as he was being arrested. The FBI described the incident as a “targeted terror attack.”

“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,” wrote Trump, adding: “My heart goes out to the victims of this terrible tragedy.”

The statement did not mention antisemitism or Israel.

Soliman was living in the US illegally after entering the country in August 2022 on a B2 visa that expired in February 2023, Department of Homeland Security Assistant Secretary Tricia McLaughlin said in a post on the social platform X.

McLaughlin said Soliman filed for asylum in September 2022 and was granted a work authorization in March 2023 that had expired. DHS did not immediately respond to requests for additional information.

According to state court documents, Soliman was born in Egypt and spent 17 years........

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