On the Death of Karen Diamond From violent anti-Zionism to anti-Semitism, and from anti-Semitism to murder. by Hugh Fitzgerald

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Karen Diamond was the 82-year-old Jewish woman taking part in a gathering in support of the Israeli hostages in Boulder, Colorado on June 1. Mohamed Sabry Soliman, an illegal immigrant from Egypt, threw flammable liquid on, and set fire to, thirteen of those people standing in quiet prayer, witnesses who were there to remind the world of the hostages still held in Gaza by their Hamas torturers. His attack left 13 of the 29 members of the group wounded, some of them in critical condition. Karen Diamond was one of them; she has just died.

The British journalist Brendan O’Neill considers here how little attention was given to this racist attack by all those “anti-racists” who are busy screaming about “genocide” in Gaza: “Karen Diamond: killed by ‘anti-Zionism,’” by Brendan O’Neill, Spiked, July 2, 2025:

A woman has died following a savage racist attack. She was doused in a flammable liquid and set on fire by a man barking bigoted insults in her face. She later succumbed to her injuries, her precious life extinguished in a 21st-century lynching by fire. But you will not see blacked-out squares on Instagram for this victim of racist violence. The left will not march. No hashtag will trend. Few hands will be wrung in woke circles over this most hellish assault. Why? Because the victim was a Jew.

Her name was Karen Diamond. She was 82 years old. She was one of 29 people who gathered at Pearl Street Mall in Boulder, Colorado on 1 June to call for the release of the Israeli hostages. Their small, prayerful assembly was intruded on in the most sickening fashion by one Mohamed Sabry Soliman. He is suspected of having splashed the gathering with petrol before wielding a homemade flame-thrower to try to immolate them. It’s 2025 and they’re burning Jews again.