Socialist Senate candidate in Colorado refuses to call deadly firebomb attack on Jews antisemitic ~ Elder Of Ziyon

Sunday, June 28, 2026

Socialist Senate candidate in Colorado refuses to call deadly firebomb attack on Jews antisemitic

On June 1, 2025, Mohamed Sabry Soliman attacked a group of Jews demonstrating in Boulder for the release of the Hamas hostages, using a makeshift flamethrower and Molotov cocktails. As he burned them he yelled "End Zionists!" and "Free Palestine!" Karen Diamond, 82 years old, died of her injuries; dozens were hurt.

Everyone understood this was an antisemitic hate crime. The City of Boulder and the DOJ said so. In custody, Soliman told investigators his goal was to kill "all Zionist people" — and since people demonstrating for hostages are Zionists, they qualified for death.

Melat Kiros, the democratic socialist now favored to unseat Diana DeGette in Colorado's 1st District, will not say it. "I don't know what was in the heart of the perpetrator," she told 9News. She concedes it was a hate crime, yet cannot determine which group it was a hate crime against. It is quite a mystery: a confessed hate crime whose target nobody can identify. All Kiros knows is that it might not have been the Jews.

Here's the interview, where she also says she can understand 9/11, that Israel is guilty of genocide both in Gaza and in Lebanon, and where she says the US shouldn't even sell defensive weapons to Israel.

Here is where the "anti-Zionist" crowd ties itself in knots. Kiros is an anti-Zionist, and like others who insist anti-Zionism has nothing to do with antisemitism, she has reached the point where a killer screaming "End Zionists" while setting Jews on fire becomes evidence that the Jews were not the target. The slogan that names the victims is repurposed as the alibi.

Perhaps the deeper reason Kiros will not call it antisemitic is that even she is not as extreme as some some of her potential voters. Students for Justice in Palestine at Boulder publicly demanded Soliman's release, honoring his murder of an 82-year-old woman as a "decisive act of resistance" and "the only sane response available to a rational human being."

You cannot alienate the constituents who celebrate the murder of Jews. Anti-Zionism is a big tent, from criticizing Netanyahu to wanting to see all Jews dead. They can't afford to alienate any of them.

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