Attack in Boulder, Colorado, burns 12 people at march for Israeli hostages, officials say; suspect charged
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A suspect is in custody after what authorities call a "targeted act of violence" at Pearl Street Mall in Boulder, Colorado. Witnesses said he threw Molotov cocktails at people supporting Israeli hostages.

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/

  • BynarsAreOk [none/use name]@hexbear.netEnglish
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    3 days ago

    A 10 year old with leukemia waving an israeli flag is also a genocide supporter.

    IMO you’re basicaly appealing to the same issue we’ve struggled since the very beginning, this is basicaly questioning the morality of killing the Romanov children. Multiple generations of communists and socialists have been here, discussed, some struggled with it, some didn’t, in the end its a line you decide which side you sit on.

    You can invent any number of hypotheticals e.g is it moral to kill a fascist mother and a father which may leave a child orphan? We’re not sitting here crying about the ultimate German civilian death toll of WW2 exactly because we’ve accepted the ones ultimately responsible for creating that situation.

    You’re right in a sense that our concept of justice is still very much tied to revenge and that can often lead to parallel lines to how everyone else feels about justice. Should every German civilian suffer the same pain and suffering the Nazi German government and army inflicted on the Soviet people? A huge number of people would say yes. I’m not sure socialists in general have a better concept of “justice” in of itself beyond just recognizing the best way to create a just world is to make it so we as a society don’t ever get to ask and make these choices.

    I turned a lot to Norman Finkelstein since Oct 7th and he has compared Oct 7th to the Nat Turner rebellion as he does here

    When he explains Oct 7th as being violent and horrible but why not condemn it he also explains if you ask at times in history a lot of horrible things happened and it pointless to deny it. I liked the way he handled the question. Of course this is not at all like Oct 7th, but you can put these “adventurism” incidents along the same line as a direct consequence of the genocide.

    Are these people directly responsible? Maybe, maybe not. You can put any number of hypotheticals and say they’re all horrible but as he puts it best at the end there about what the message was, “we warned you, you keep trying to treat us this way that is what is going to happen to you”. Obviously we’re not Palestinians but the hopelessness that leads to adventurism as the only alternative is the same.

    If the Zionists think they can hide behind social outrage and “morality” to avoid horrible acts of revenge or hopeless resistance, then they’re about to fuck around and find out. They’re are hypocrites, we already know this. Will it just make Zionists stronger? Perhaps but for sure pragmatism is not a convincing argument.