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Officials Release Update In Colorado Attack

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In a scene of horrifying violence that stunned the peaceful streets of Boulder, Colorado, a pro-Israel gathering turned to chaos Sunday when an Egyptian national—illegally residing in the U.S.—allegedly launched a firebomb attack, injuring eight people in what officials are calling a hate-driven act of terror.

The suspect, Mohamed Sabry Soliman, 45, is being held on a $10 million bond after he was arrested at the scene, reportedly screaming anti-Israel slogans as he set people ablaze with incendiary devices. The victims, aged 52 to 88, were participating in a weekly awareness event by Run for Their Lives, a global apolitical movement urging the release of Israeli hostages held by Hamas.


The attack unfolded shortly after 1:26 p.m. near the Boulder County Courthouse. According to witnesses and law enforcement, Soliman approached the demonstrators and deployed a makeshift firebomb while shouting, “How many children you killed?” and “We have to end Zionists, they are killers.”


The Boulder Police Department responded rapidly, evacuating several blocks and later confirming the scene was unsafe due to the investigation of a suspicious vehicle nearby. The FBI, DHS, and ICE are now fully engaged in the case.


According to the Anti-Defamation League’s Center on Extremism, video analysis confirms the ideological nature of the slogans shouted by Soliman, who was targeting demonstrators solely because of their advocacy for Jewish hostages held in Gaza.

Colorado Attorney General Phil Weiser, himself Jewish, called the incident “a hate crime,” stating, “People may have differing views about world events and the Israeli-Hamas conflict, but violence is never the answer.”


The most damning aspect of this attack may not just be the ideology behind it—but the failure of immigration enforcement that allowed it to happen.

Soliman entered the U.S. on a B1/B2 visa in August 2022, with authorization to remain until February 2023. He overstayed and remained in the country illegally for over a year. Records indicate he filed a claim with U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS)—potentially asylum—on September 29, 2022. Despite being out of status, he was granted work authorization in March 2023, which expired this past March.

Under the Biden administration, that bureaucratic approval created a window for Soliman to remain in the U.S.—unsupervised, unmonitored, and now accused of domestic terror.

Officials across the spectrum responded swiftly and with condemnation:

  • FBI Deputy Director Dan Bongino confirmed the Bureau is treating the case as “ideologically motivated violence.”
  • DNI Tulsi Gabbard announced the National Counterterrorism Center has joined the investigation.
  • Gov. Jared Polis labeled the incident a “heinous act of terror.”
  • Israel’s Ambassador to the UN, Danny Danon, declared, “This is terrorism. The time for statements is over. It is time for concrete action.”
  • Colorado Rep. Joe Neguse called the attack “another manifestation of the metastasizing antisemitism in America.”
  • Sen. Marco Rubio echoed the broader sentiment: “Terror has no place in our great country.”

Even the NYPD boosted patrols at Jewish sites in response, citing potential ripple effects in community security.

This attack follows the May 21 shooting of two Israeli Embassy staffers in Washington, D.C., adding to a deeply troubling pattern of targeted violence against Jews on American soil. Simon Wiesenthal Center CEO Jim Berk directly tied these events to the rising tide of anti-Israel rhetoric online and on campuses, warning, “Physical attacks—even murder—of Jews is inevitable in this climate.”

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