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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[–] 117 points 1 year ago

sorry, bud. you can't just set random people on fire. only Israel gets to do that

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  • [–] 102 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    bud, "israel" turned those hostages into chunky marinara months ago

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  • [–] 99 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Run For Their Lives

    How I want all colonizers to feel all of the time if I'm being honest

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  • [–] 87 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    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."

    The journalist gets an F for not immediately asking what this person thought the best way to free the hostages would be. Guarantee it wasn't ceasefire now.

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  • [–] 78 points 1 year ago

    this is what the ruling class has decided will be normal shrug-outta-hecks

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  • [–] 77 points 1 year ago (30 children)

    Look i know the party line on adventureism, but im still gonna root for it

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  • [–] 36 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (29 children)

    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"

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  • [–] 71 points 1 year ago (24 children)

    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.

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  • [–] 24 points 1 year ago (23 children)

    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

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  • [–] 60 points 1 year ago (16 children)

    These incidents aren't about strategically sound actions, they're spontaneous acts of outrage against a genocide the Western world seems to have deemed no big deal. This is the price the rulers of the West have decided as acceptable to continue supporting genocide. These acts will continue, no doubt about it, and who are we to stay they should stop? May not be strategically sound, but can you honestly say it's immoral to kill a supporter of an active genocode?

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  • [–] 71 points 1 year ago

    settlerqin-shi-huangdi-fireball

    looks like adventurism will get more popular

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  • [–] 63 points 1 year ago

    "hostages" that were kidnapped from their tanks, i'm sure.

    this ain't it but i guess i'd be ok with firebombing a nazi rally so both-sides

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    Ultimately whatever your feelings on this action...Isn't this kinda the inevitable conclusion without any effort to de-escalate?

    The ruling class has made it perfectly clear that any and all posturing and moralizing about political violence and human rights is complete cynical horseshit so inevitably you're going to have people that call them on it. Wrong target, wrong method et al.....I don't know how we really are supposed to engage in that kind of dialogue when nobody in authority seems to have any interest in doing so.

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  • [–] 47 points 1 year ago (5 children)

    Very very dumb, locations of mic complexes are available, this is some protest, not directly involved people. (50/50 on entrapment tbh in this case, considering shirtlessness)

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  • [–] 40 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    Kind of predictable though when the other guy went after low level embassy staffers. Unfortunately you start doing that and people see it a lot differently than doming Healthcare CEOs, the message copycats get is just get anyone involved at any level, just unleash your frustrations on easy access soft targets. And that's appealing to people because hitting the targets that kind of matter more is often much more difficult and challenging and many of these people are acting emotionally and in an undisciplined, glory-seeking way.

    This is unfortunately what you get. People doing these kinds of attacks that don't in any way disrupt the zionist machine, don't really intimidate those who matter at the top because you're just hitting the very bottom and play right into their narrative and let them justify more crackdowns and paint everyone with the same broad brush as just hating Jews, as being terrorists, as being willing to kill uninvolved civilians.

    People you know justified the attacks on those embassy people because they posted ghoulish pro-zionist views online, well these people were posting those views IRL with their little protest here and the only difference is those other people were official low level but easily replaced employees. Neither one is going to resonate as justifiable to most people, most Americans, but this is even less so.

    It's very ineffectual. What the 'left' in the US does compared to even the UK where those activists regularly shut down Elbit systems and their suppliers. You know I think most British people don't look at those activists there shutting down the weapons companies as dangerous, hateful terrorists whereas it's easy to paint these attackers in the US as just that and that's a problem. These are acts of undisciplined despair and emotion but they're going to hurt the disciplined parts of the movement all so they can feel better about themselves by taking action. It's very selfish and it plays right into the hands of the zioniosts who get to claim Jews are under attack and rally around needing to uphold the zionist project.

    This isn't going to scare zionists from the streets. It isn't going to slow the genocide, it isn't going to give pause to those carrying it out, it isn't going to give pause to them abetting it here in the US.

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  • [–] 24 points 1 year ago*

    You know I think most British people don't look at those activists there shutting down the weapons companies as dangerous, hateful terrorists

    On the contrary local people have regularly participated in crowding and shutting the police out, preventing arrest while vandalism is ongoing. In fact, getting hundreds of local people participating has been instrumental in ensuring that the activists are viewed as doing what the people want rather than anything else.

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  • [–] 23 points 1 year ago

    The embassy workers are associated with the state, rather directly, these are home grown dipshits. Again, considering convenience (domestic targets, mass instead of direct weapons, tenuous connection) for propaganda, it smells very fishy

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  • [–] 44 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Imagining the inevitable plot twist where the attacker was just some antisemitic chud with zero consistent ideology, just completely brain-melted by the contradictions of Western capitalism

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    [–] 41 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    It's tragic, but Israel was no angel.

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  • [–] 40 points 1 year ago (17 children)

    Something smells off about this whole thing.

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  • [–] 41 points 1 year ago (12 children)

    I'm sure Isreal would love a Reichstag moment. Cops were out doing vandalism during the George Floyd protests and everyone was blaming anti-fascists and BLM for it.

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  • [–] 35 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    There is no reason for a march for hostages on Pearl Street except to antagonize people. I've seen them out there before with Israeli flags trying to piss people off. Boulder is extremely liberal, too.

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  • [–] [S] 44 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 child)

    I think it's revealing when the organizers said their event is not a protest. A protest is a political demonstration where the attendees shows disapproval of an entity which has power. Zionists have the full backing of the US government. Zionists are happy about the actions of the US government. Zionists are happy about the ongoing genocide in Gaza. Protests demonstrate for oppressed people, a demonstration for the oppressor is not a protest at all.

    By admitting that their political action is not a protest, the participants admit that they support the genocide in Gaza and they admit that they are not being oppressed. They're not protesting, they're gloating.

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  • [–] 34 points 1 year ago

    When they talk about hostages, we all know they're bullshitting because they have this shit-eating grin like they know what they're doing and they feel untouchable. Crybully behavior, some of the worst people on Earth.

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    [–] 36 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

    Clearly they just got burned by their meth pipes, or whatever other deflection right wingers would use about a legitimate protest being attacked like this.

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  • [–] 33 points 1 year ago

    Reading that article, it makes me wish those marching assholes got firebombed at least one more time. Not to mention the shit in there about how killing a Christian Zionist is antisemitic.

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  • [–] 28 points 1 year ago

    good-morning What a beautiful sight to behold

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    [–] 22 points 1 year ago

    I love these psyops ahah news - “someone is attacking israeli for supporting a genocide” internet - “based” news- “noooo you should feel bad, the zios died!” Internet - “thats great news lol”

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