A man with a makeshift flamethrower and Molotov cocktails attacked a peaceful march in Boulder, Colorado. The participants were raising awareness of hostages still held by Hamas fighters after the militant group’s deadly 2023 raid on Israel.
The suspect in the June 1 rampage allegedly yelled “Free Palestine!” as he attacked. More than a dozen people were wounded. Two were flown to a Denver-area hospital with severe burns. One is a Holocaust survivor, according to news reports.
We cannot fathom how such mindless violence helps the Palestinian cause. We cannot imagine how the attack was anything other than an antisemitic hate crime. Legitimate criticism of Israeli government policy does not include incendiary assaults on civilians in the United States.
We do, however, understand that Hama