On Sunday, a terrorist in Boulder, Colo., aimed a flamethrower and lobbed Molotov cocktails at demonstrators — including a Holocaust survivor — marching in solidarity with the innocent hostages Hamas took from their homes in the world’s only Jewish-majority state nearly two years ago now.

“End Zionists!” the man now in custody for burning at least eight allegedly shouted.

Everyone knows what that really means.

Just as, for everyone paying any attention, Sunday’s events came as no shock at all.

For so many of our self-professed betters, the murder, rape, torture and kidnapping of Israeli civilians — whose only crime was living in their ancestral homeland — did not serve as a harbinger of moral clarity, but as an excuse to scrutinize the Israeli response to Hamas’ barbaric attack on its citizens.

From Oct. 8, 2023, onward, Western elites in the press, academia and entertainment industry have been working feverishly toward a perverse objective: using the deadliest attack on Jews since the Holocaust to further villainize the world’s most historically persecuted people.

Mission accomplished.

In the span of just 11 days, Israeli embassy workers were gunned down in the streets of Washington, DC, by a man yelling “Free Palestine!” and pro-Israel laymen were burned in Boulder — and not as a matter of tragic happenstance.

No, the emergence of the professional Jew hunter in America was a predictable, even inevitable, consequence of the blood libels hurled in the wake of the Oct. 7 attack.

For the better part of two years now, journalists have breathlessly parroted every last claim of the Hamas-controlled Gaza Health Ministry almost as quickly as they rushed to condemn the Trump administration for identifying Sunday’s attack as an act of terrorism.

Prestigious Ivy League professors and their students have celebrated the massacre of Jews with impunity.

And actors and musicians have used their enormous cultural power to act as Hamas’ unwitting propagandists.

Jew hatred is the world’s oldest, most powerful and pervasive bigotry, flourishing in cultures all around the world and dating back thousands of years.

It is a universal language spoken by the far left and far right, Islamist radicals and Hollywood stars, ignorant know-nothings and supposedly learned public intellectuals.

That’s why it’s so dangerous.

When those with a microphone indulge the impulse to blame Jews for their own misfortune and excoriate them for reacting to it, they are indulging the worst of a relatively broad base of society.

Publicly denying the Jewish right to self-defense dehumanizes Jews and Zionists and justifies further recriminations against them.

And hurling unfounded accusations of systematic war crimes, as the International Criminal Court and assorted world leaders have done, feeds into the worst stereotypes associated with the antisemitic sickness, especially when other tragedies, wars and actual war crimes across the world go unremarked upon.

Is it any surprise that the use of the word “genocide” to describe Israel’s defensive actions has whipped up people — including, presumably, the Egyptian national accused of carrying out the Boulder attack — into an antisemitic frenzy?

Of course not.

After all, why shouldn’t the country’s conspiracy theorists, kooks and vicious bigots take up arms to carry out their own personal pogroms when the American upper crust itself has identified Israel (of all places) as the locus of evil in the world?

It’s an obvious question that few are asking — for obvious reasons.

The wealthy, famous and influential cohort in control of the country’s most powerful institutions are unwilling to take responsibility for creating the dangerous atmosphere in which Jews are being maimed and murdered.

Hence the “shock” that a Holocaust survivor could be injured in Boulder and a young, happy couple could be sent to their graves in the middle of the nation’s capital.

Their professed surprise at the horrors unfolding across the country is not just an indictment of their naivete, but an admission of complicity in them.

Isaac Schorr is a staff writer at Mediaite.