Re: [OT] Breaking - Jews walking in peaceful rally firebombed in Boulder CO

On 2025-06-02 3:59 PM, Adam H. Kerman wrote:

 Rhino <no_offline_contact@example.com> wrote:

 2025-06-02 3:32 PM, Adam H. Kerman wrote:

 Rhino <no_offline_contact@example.com> wrote:

 

 I was truly shocked to see news of this horrific attack just now:

 

 
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jun/02/boulder-colorado-attack-rally

 

 The attacker has been apprehended; no bonus points for guessing that
 his first name is Mohamed.

 

 I hope he gets the death penalty and that the victims recover quickly.
 The report I read does not mention fatalities so I'm hoping the injuries
 aren't too bad although I imagine the psychological trauma is going to
 be very difficult to overcome if it can be overcome at all.

 

 I hadn't heard this yesterday. How awful.

 

 I wonder if all those who have proclaimed over the years that incendiary
 rhetoric is responsible for inspiring people to commit violent acts will
 keep silent since, you know, Jews are the chosen scapegoats.

 

 If they don't condemn it, throw their own reasoning back on them by
 declaring that "silence is violence".

 

 I can't remember a single report of someone Jewish ever physically
 attacking the protesters at any of the all-too-common pro-Hamas rallies,
 do you? It's almost like one side actually believes in freedom of speech
 and the other side doesn't....

 
 Perhaps some shoving. I'd have remembered a flame thrower.
 
 Gotta love a violent act to enforce the heckler's veto.

 
I wonder if we'll find the attacker lionized the way Luigi Mangione has
been? It would be nauseating - but all too predictable - if the attacker
was treated as a martyr who was standing up for the poor downtrodden
Palestinians just like all those wonderful activists protesting on the
world's streets and campuses.
 
In other news, I see Greta Thunberg has joined a flotilla trying to
bring "symbolic" aid to Palestine through the IDF blockade of Gaza.
Here's hoping the IDF arrest her and her companions and detain them with
some of the worst of the Palestinians they hold.