(JEWISH GROUP) Familiar Attempts to Justify and Downplay Antisemitic Violence Follow Latest Attack on Jewish Community

[Behind the Aegis]

Reactions to the latest attack targeting the Jewish community, in which 15 people were injured in a firebombing assault on a “Run for Their Lives” event in Boulder, Colorado, for Israeli hostages in Gaza, followed a familiar pattern to the May 21, 2025, murder of a couple leaving an event for young Jewish professionals at the Capital Jewish Museum in Washington, D.C.

Many of the same anti-Zionist groups and influencers who celebrated or justified D.C. shooting suspect Elias Rodriguez’s actions reacted similarly to the Boulder attack, while other extremists also responded with predictable antisemitism and conspiracy theories by claiming the attack was a “false flag” or blaming Jews. Others downplayed the attack or legitimized it as a response to the war in Gaza.

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Radical anti-Zionist groups Bronx Anti-War Coalition and Unity of Fields, which both openly and repeatedly glorified Rodriguez’s alleged actions over the past week and a half, reacted similarly to Soliman’s alleged attack. The Bronx Anti-War Coalition posted shortly after the attack: “May all Zionists live in perpetual fear and paranoia until the day the criminal entity crumbles.” Unity of Fields reposted their own tweet, initially published in the aftermath of the D.C. shooting, that read, “We ain’t condemning shit.”

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Hasan Piker, a popular Twitch streamer with nearly three million subscribers who frequently criticizes Israel and Zionism and has justified the atrocities of October 7, spoke about the Boulder attack during his livestream on June 2, 2025. Piker and his guest, journalist and Presbyterian minister Chris Hedges, downplayed both the Boulder and D.C. attacks, characterizing that violence as the “natural” response to Israel's actions in Gaza.

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Of course, anti-Semites rely on their "good Jews" to help them with their defense and excuse-making for anti-Semitism by claiming Israel is to blame. The only ones to blame for anti-Semitism are anti-Semites, to claim Jews or Israel is "to blame" is victim-blaming and anti-Semitic, to boot!