Students for Justice in Palestine Chapter Praises Boulder Terrorist on Anniversary of Attack

On the anniversary of the attack on Jews in Boulder, Colorado marching for the release of Israeli hostages held by Hamas which later claimed the life of a Holocaust survivor, the local chapter for Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) praised the man who carried out the attack:

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.

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.

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.

Mohamed refused their normalization with direct action. He chose to treat the manifestation of Zionist violence as the lethal threat it actually constitutes.

These words are sickening. It would probably be even more so had these words been uttered in German.

If this is sanity, then there is no such thing as reason.

But these words are also illuminating because SJP and organizations like it are telling us who they are.

When these people tell you an elderly Holocaust survivor murdered in cold blood with a Molotov cocktail was part of a "Zionist death cult festering in our city" you should take them at their word.

Why?

Because they are not only telling you that killing Jews is a good thing but that they would like to see more of it in Boulder and beyond.

In the wake of these evil words, most elected officials in Colorado have chosen to remain silent. Sadly, this should not come as a surprise as the people of Boulder turned their back on the Run for Their Lives marchers and Boulder's Jewish community.

It is attitudes such as these which allow voices like SJP and their praise of terrorists to flourish.