Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) is running for cover.
After the horrific attack on Jews in Boulder, Colo., the Minnesota representative issued the kind of bland statement meant to deflect blame, posting this on X: “I’m holding the victims and families in Boulder, Colorado in my heart. Violence against anyone is never acceptable. We must reject hatred and harm in all its forms.”
As some noted, it took nearly 24 hours for Omar to issue even that statement, which notably failed to mention that the victims were Jews and the suspect is an Egyptian Muslim who attacked them while shouting “Free Palestine.” A video has now surfaced in which the accused assailant ranted about his faith, saying “Allahu Akbar.” After he firebombed a group of Jews, he told investigators he wanted to “kill all Zionist people.”
One of the victims, an 88-year-old Holocaust survivor, asked NBC News, “What the hell is going on in our country?” It’s a question everyone should be asking.
Here’s part of the answer: It is a very easy hop from college students intimidating Jewish students and chanting about Intifada and a Muslim man trying to murder Jews. It is similarly but a short leap from Omar, who applauded anti-Israel student protesters at Columbia University for being “brave and patriotic,” voted against an antisemitism resolution in the U.S. House and suggested to aggrieved people acting out of anger that some Jewish students are just “pro-genocide.”
It is also easy to connect student demonstrations with terrorism. For the first time, a protester at Columbia University — an outsider arrested for hate crimes against Jews — has been linked to Hamas. He won’t be the last.
In recent months we have witnessed not only the hideous attempt to burn Jews alive in Boulder, but also the firebombing of Jewish Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro’s home and the cold-blooded murder of two young Jewish people at the Jewish Capital Museum in Washington. All three suspects expressed anti-Israel sentiments, with the alleged perpetrator of the latter killings shouting “free, free Palestine” after he shot the victims 21 times.
The Anti-Defamation League reports that 2024 saw a record number of antisemitic attacks, up 344 percent over the past five years. This is intolerable.
Radicalized students at some of our top schools are part of the problem. Recently, MIT’s graduation was marred by a student speaker, Megha Vemuri, who donned the politically symbolic keffiyeh and told the commencement audience, “We are watching Israel try to wipe out Palestine off the face of the earth, and it is a shame that MIT is a part of it.” She also accused MIT of complicity “in the ongoing genocide of the Palestinian people.”
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Author: Ruth King
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