Tony Greenstein, a founding member of the Palestine Solidarity Campaign (PSC), has caused outrage with an X post which seems to justify Monday’s “terror” attack in Boulder Colorado.
Responding to an X post by international human rights lawyer and “proud Zionist” Arsen Ostrovsky, which read: “When they say ‘Globalize the intifada’ ...” along with a picture taken in the aftermath of the attack, Greenstein, who is Jewish, wrote: “They were marching in support of genocide and got a taste of what Palestinians experience every day - what's the problem?”
Mohamed Sabry Soliman, the 45-year-old Egyptian national allegedly behind the attack, has now been charged with a federal hate crime and 16 counts of attempted murder.
Four women and four men aged between 52 and 88 years-old were injured when Soliman, disguised as a gardener, allegedly launched Molotov cocktails and fired a homemade flamethrower whilst shouting “Free Palestine.”
An 88-year-old Holocaust survivor was among those injured in the assault, which the FBI are investigating as a “targeted terror attack.”
The victims were peacefully walking through Pearl Street Mall in Boulder as part of a weekly “Run for Their Lives” rally, aiming to raise awareness for the remaining 58 hostages still being held in Gaza.
Ed Victor, one of the marchers, told CBS: “All of a sudden, I felt the heat. It was a Molotov cocktail equivalent, a gas bomb in a glass jar, thrown. Av [another marcher] saw it, a big flame as high as a tree, and all I saw was someone on fire."
Federal authorities claim in the charges that Soliman plotted the attack for a full year with the intention to “kill all Zionist people”, but held off until after his daughter graduated high school.
He is also alleged to have told emergency medics at the scene that he carried out the act as vengeance for “his people”.
Commenting on the attack, US President Donald Trump said Soliman would be "prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law".
On Tuesday Soliman’s wife and five children were taken into custody, and it has since been reported that their visas have been revoked, with the administration set to begin deportation proceedings.
