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Suspect arrested for setting people on fire at pro-Israel event in Boulder, Colorado (www.cbsnews.com)

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Multiple people at Boulder's Pearl Street Mall in Colorado were burned when they were attacked by a man during a march for Israeli hostages Sunday, according to police.

Witnesses at the scene told CBS Colorado that the suspect attacked people with Molotov cocktails who were participating in a walk to remember the Israeli hostages who remain in Gaza.

Run For Their Lives, which organized the walk, said, "This is not a protest; it is a peaceful walk to show solidarity with the hostages and their families, and a plea for their release."

"So we stood up, lined up in front of the old Boulder courthouse, and I was actually on the far west side. And there was somebody there that I didn't even notice, although he was making a lot of noise, but I'm just focused on my job of being quiet and getting lined up. And, from my point of view, all of a sudden, I felt the heat. It was a Molotov cocktail equivalent, a gas bomb in a glass jar, thrown. Av [another marcher] saw it, a big flame as high as a tree, and all I saw was someone on fire," said Victor.

Video of the scene shows what appears to be a burn scar in front of the old courthouse and a person being taken away on a stretcher. Photos from a viewer show a shirtless man at the scene being detained by police.

FBI Director Kash Patel, in a statement, described the incident as a targeted terror attack and said agents were on the scene.

Redfearn, however, said it was too early to speculate about a motive. “We are not calling it a terror attack at this moment,” he said.

https://www.reuters.com/world/us/fbi-investigating-targeted-terror-attack-boulder-colorado-director-says-2025-06-01/

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[-] [email protected] 36 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago)

it was a bunch of american jews. not settlers, not soldiers, not servants of the zionist state

the optics of this attack are terrible. it doesn’t matter if you ‘know the party line on adventurism’ if you’re blackpilledly braying for blood anyways. that just gives zionists what they want— justification for their ‘it was never about palestine’ garbage. what a strategic faceplant and a gift to our enemies. i unironically completely disavow Boulder guy

EDIT: Thank you all for your perspectives. I see now the error of my ways and will embrace the revolutionary potential of "firebombing Assisted Living residents"

[-] [email protected] 71 points 4 weeks ago

American Jews who what? We can't keep infantilizing them, they are ignoring a genocide by bringing up "hostages" that even bibi doesn't care about.

[-] [email protected] 24 points 4 weeks ago

they're genocide supporters, yes. A 10 year old with leukemia waving an israeli flag is also a genocide supporter. that doesn't make them a strategically sound or particularly high-ranking assassination target

[-] [email protected] 19 points 4 weeks ago

I donno. Anti Isreal people need to hit at high ranking assassination targets while Isreal kills countless children and wipes out full bloodlines?

[-] [email protected] 21 points 4 weeks ago

in our relative safety we should be more judicious with our targets, yeah probably.

all Palestinian violence against israel is justified but i wouldn't romanov netanyahu's minor grandchildren

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