Mohamed Sabry Soliman, the Egyptian national behind Sunday’s terror attack in Boulder, Colorado, at a rally for Israeli hostages, was charged with counts including attempted murder and a federal hate crime. Soliman posed as a gardener to get close to the crowd and admitted he aimed to “kill all Zionist people,” according to a police affidavit. (Times of Israel)
Immigration agents also arrested and detained Soliman’s family, as they investigate whether they knew about his plans. (Colorado Public Radio)
The White House on Tuesday posted to social media: “Six One-Way Tickets for Mohamed’s Wife and Five Kids. Final Boarding Call Coming Soon. ✈️” (X)
Opinions…
Being Jewish in America today feels like walking multiple tightropes at once | “We should not trust fear or anger to be our guides,” writes Rabbi Jay Michaelson. “This may mean walking yet another tightrope: of vigilance but not paranoia, security but not panic, honoring our emotions without handing our lives over to them.” Read his essay ►
An Israeli-American doctor in the midst of the Boulder attack: ‘This did not come out of vacuum’ | Dr. Yonatan Gold was marching in support of the Israeli hostages when the attack began. He rushed to help the injured. Our senior columnist, Rob Eshman, asked him if he thought the shock of the attack might help tone down the toxic American rhetoric around the Israel-Hamas war. “No,” Gold said. “Look what happened with Sandy Hook. We saw what happened with guns, right? The most radical things that you could not even have imagined, that you would think would shake a community and shake a nation, shook the nation for five minutes.” Read his essay ►
I teach Jewish history in Boulder. Is my community taking the wrong lessons from Sunday’s attack? | “The refrain I have heard, over and over since the attack, is one that made me deeply uneasy: It’s the rhetoric,” writes Hilary Kalisman, a professor who teaches Jewish studies at the University of Colorado, Boulder. “But by flattening our understanding of why one man chose to commit an act of unspeakable violence, we risk making it harder — not easier — to talk to, rather than past, one another.” Read her essay ►
Plus… A number of influential conservatives are generalizing the extremist views of the suspect as representative of all Muslims and Arabs. “Islam is not compatible with western civilization,” said Charlie Kirk. (Forward)
The Boulder JCC is set to hold a vigil this evening at 5:30 pm MT. Watch it here.
► Catch up on all our coverage of the Boulder attack | 