The Colorado anti-Israel student organization praised Boulder firebomb attacker Mohamed Sabry Soliman along with his killing of an Israeli hostage supporter on the anniversary of the incident.

Boulder Students for Justice in Palestine together with the Leeds group Direct Confrontation Media issued a now removed statement of support for Soliman on Monday. In 2025 he hurled two Molotov cocktails at attendees of a Run for Your Lives rally advocating release of October 7 Massacre hostages. The attack burned 29 individuals and caused fatal injuries to 82-year-old Karen Diamond.

One year ago today Mohamed Sabry Soliman took direct action against the Zionist death cult festering in our city. He struck against the colonist procession that gathers weekly to celebrate the pretext for ongoing genocide read the text of a website version of the statement published by SJP and still linked in its social media biography.

The state would have us believe that Mohamed took the action he did because he is insane a fanatic a terrorist guilty of a hate crime but we know the truth and we reject the state's inversion of it. Mohamed chose the only sane response available to a rational human being confronted with the normalization of genocide. He refused the comfortable position of the grateful immigrant and the role of obedient subject choosing confrontation with a violent system over passive proximity to the comfort of empire.

Boulder SJP described the victims and rally participants as colonists and labeled the hostages they supported as war criminals who supposedly offered a pretext for alleged genocide in Gaza. The march represented Zionist violence according to the SJP chapter which claimed no distinction exists between speech and force.

Manifestation of Zionist violence a lethal threat SJP says

We reject the distinction between speech and material force. The Run for Their Lives procession functions as a mechanism for normalizing the celebration of mass killers rendering ordinary the sight of war criminals treated as heroes on streets that sit upon stolen land said Boulder SJP. Mohamed refused their normalization with direct action. He chose to treat the manifestation of Zionist violence as the lethal threat it actually constitutes.

The American student group condemned the 46-year-old Egyptian nationals May 7 sentencing to life in prison although Soliman himself showed remorse for his crimes and pleaded guilty to the 101 charges including first degree murder attempted murder assault and criminal use of incendiary devices. The eight consecutive life sentences represented a federal attempt to assassinate Soliman according to SJP which also criticized the hate crime charges still pending in federal court as a discriminatory legal tool used against Muslims and Arabs since the September 11 attacks.

Boulder SJP further criticized the arrest and later release of Solimans family by Immigration and Customs Enforcement as an instrument of collective punishment and a tactic employed both in the US and Gaza.

We honor a man who sacrificed his comfort and his proximity to empire willingly expending his own liberty in attaining his objective said SJP.

The group called for Solimans release demanded the abolition of ICE and urged others to continue the struggle as his act of resistance obligates us to maintain unyielding opposition against every structure that normalizes occupation while enabling genocide.

Boulder Students for Justice in Palestine affirms that the Palestinian Resistance stands as the sole legitimate authority capable of delivering accountability for the genocidal actions of the Zionist entity the statement concluded. Mohamed acted alone on June 1st compelled by the grisly realities of a war against his people and the absolute refusal of formal channels to deliver anything resembling justice.

The Anti-Defamation League which highlighted the now deleted Instagram post on Tuesday described the post as unacceptable and simply horrific.

While we and others around the country remembered and mourned Karen Diamond z''l who died from her injuries and honored the other victims who were badly burned the local SJP chapter chose to condone the violent attack that claimed an innocent life and left others with devastating injuries ADL said in X. The content of the post is beyond reprehensible. It is so detached from basic facts human decency and reality that it would be difficult to take seriously if its message were not so dangerous.

Reuters reported that at his trial Soliman had asked the prosecution to impose the death penalty and previously told investigators that he wanted to kill all Zionist people in an attack that he had plotted for a year.

Soliman had reportedly yelled free Palestine as he threw the gasoline bombs. While he apologized and insisted he held no malice against Jewish people he lamented the war in Gaza and insisted that the enemy is Zionism.