Exactly one year after the antisemitic firebombing attack on Boulder’s Pearl Street Mall that killed 82-year-old Karen Diamond and injured more than a dozen others, a group claiming to be made up of Boulder college students put out a social media post praising the man convicted of carrying it out.
“Boulder Students for Justice in Palestine” called the June 1, 2025, attack “a case of chickens coming home to roost” and described Mohamed Soliman’s decision to hurl Molotov cocktails at participants in a Run for Their Lives walk to raise awareness for Israeli hostages being held by Hamas as “the only sane response available to a rational human being.”
The post, which is no longer up on the organization’s Instagram page but was still up on its website Tuesday evening, also condemned the federal hate crime and terrorism charges filed against Soliman, calling them “the same legal mechanisms consistently deployed against Arabs and Muslims in the United States since 2001.”
SJP described Soliman as having “refused the comfortable position of the grateful immigrant” and said he “willingly expended his own liberty in attaining his objective.” The post also called for his release from prison. Last month, a Boulder County judge sentenced Soliman to eight consecutive life sentences. He’s still awaiting trial on federal charges.
Karen Diamond, who died from her injuries weeks after the attack, is not mentioned once in the post.
The Anti-Defamation League condemned the post.
