Last year, an anti-Israel attacker hurled gasoline bombs into a rally for Israeli hostages in Boulder, Colorado, incinerating and killing an elderly woman and wounding more than a dozen others.

The deadly attack, coming weeks after the murder of two Israeli embassy staffers in Washington, DC, shook the US Jewish community.

While Jews in Colorado and around the US mourned the deceased victim, Karen Diamond, last week, local anti-Zionist activists backed the attacker, Mohamed Sabry Soliman.

Students for Justice in Palestine at the University of Colorado Boulder said in a statement that the firebomber “took direct action against a manifestation of genocidal zionism in our community. We stand with him.”

The statement was part of a pattern in which anti-Israel groups across the US have supported a series of attackers who targeted Jews and others with arson, physical assaults, deadly violence and vandalism.

The campaigns portray the perpetrators as political prisoners engaged in a righteous struggle against “Zionism” and other leftist causes, such as white supremacy, imperialism and colonialism.

Tarek Bazrouk, who pleaded guilty to a series of attacks against Jews in New York, has become a cause célèbre in the anti-Israel movement.

Bazrouk physically attacked his victims during anti-Israel protests in 2024 and 2025, pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit hate crimes, and was sentenced to 17 months in prison last year.

Leading activist groups mobilized during his trial, including National Students for Justice in Palestine, Within Our Lifetime, the Palestinian Youth Movement, Pal-Awda,........

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