On Sunday an illegal alien named Mohamed Soliman allegedly shouted, “Free Palestine” and used a makeshift flamethrower to set a crowd of Jews on fire in Boulder, Colorado. According to a criminal complaint, Soliman — who has been charged with a federal hate crime and several other crimes — said that he “wanted to kill all Zionist people and wished they were all dead.” But the media seem just as eager to downplay the antisemitic nature of this attack (and other instances of violence against Jews) as they were to accuse Elon Musk of antisemitism for raising his hand in the air.
Only five months ago, when the media freaked out over Musk’s gesture, the propaganda press wanted you to believe it was hypervigilant about antisemitism.
In one of President Donald Trump’s January inauguration events, Musk was flailing his arms about, and at one point, his hand went from touching his chest to an outstretched arm. Click went the cameras; wag went the tongues.
A raised arm! That is never a friendly wave or the innocent movement of an expressive person, the propagandists’ “extremist experts” claimed. The move can only mean Musk is a fascist Nazi.
Only the truly stupid believed that load of donkey droppings. Yet the totally bogus “Nazi salute” became the favorite topic for several news cycles. Nothing Musk has done before or since indicates he is connected to such an abhorrent movement.
But cue the crickets. The propaganda press is now nearly silent on in-your-face antisemitism, failing to sound the alarm that the “Free Palestine” movement is at the root of recent high-profile crimes.
Last month the Department of Justice charged Elias Rodriguez, 31, of Chicago, with the murders of Yaron Lischinsky and Sarah Lynn Milgram, “two Israeli Embassy staff members outside the Jewish National Museum in Washington, D.C.,” according to the DOJ. Rodriguez was caught on video after his arrest shouting, “Free Palestine,” but his ideology has been downplayed in the news.
A man allegedly claiming responsibility for killing two Jewish people and then yelling out “Free Palestine” is apparently not enough for ABC News to conclude that antisemitism was a motive. In writing about the murders, ABC News’ Helena Skinner and Bill Hutchinson quoted Israeli Foreign Minister Gideo Sa’ar this way: “The motive for the attack remains under investigation by authorities, but Sa’ar alleged, ‘This is a direct result of toxic anti-Semitic incitement against Israel and Jews around the world that has been going on since the October 7th massacre.’”
In response to the murder of these two young Jews, taxpayer-funded NPR reacted with skepticism instead of clearly calling out antisemitism.
“If, indeed, the suspect planned to kill people because of their Jewish faith, this would represent a major anomaly in lethal, antisemitic violence,” NPR National Security Correspondent Odette Yousef wrote. She then went on to quote “expert” Seth Jones, president of the Defense and Security Department at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, who claimed that it is the “far right” white supremacists who are most often the attackers, and it is rare and new to see violence from the left.
New York Times writer Julie Bosman mentioned a social media post from Rodriquez that read, “Escalate For Gaza, Bring The War Home” in paragraph 20 of her story, but first she talked about his “life typical of a college-educated young professional in Chicago” and recounted his work history as a writer and researcher. “He enjoys reading and writing fiction, live music, film, and exploring new places,” Bosman quoted from his online biography. His nice life story is detailed, his ideology less prominently so.
The attack on Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro’s mansion provides another example. The mansion was set on fire in the middle of the night during Passover in April as his family slept upstairs. Cody Balmer, 38, called police, turned himself in, and reportedly confessed. Balmer allegedly told police that if he met Shapiro in the mansion after he broke in, he planned to beat him with a sledgehammer. During his phone call to police, Balmer blamed Shapiro for “what he wants to do to the Palestinian people.” The governor is Jewish but has no power over the political dealings of Israel.
The media were all over this story, but antisemitism was not the thrust of the coverage at first. (Notice how Musk only had to have his arm in the wrong place for a moment to be compared to Hitler, but arson at the home of a Jewish leader during Passover does not immediately pique media curiosity.)
Once Balmer’s Palestinian comment was made public, the focus was not on the dangerous movement gathering steam in the United States, but on Shapiro’s victimization. Shapiro allowed the press to interview him sitting in the middle of a burnt-out room. His voice cracked, and he nearly cried while making numerous speeches about the incident. Shapiro said that “this kind of violence” should “be universally condemned.” But that is as far as any national conversation went.
“Free Palestine” protesters are appearing more often, intimidating university students trying to get to class, interrupting speeches at public events, and generally disturbing the peace. They chant, “From the river to the sea,” meaning they want to wipe out Israel and the Jews who live there. This is in keeping with Hitler’s design, and the public should be vigorously warned of this real threat.
When someone tells you who they are, pay attention. The “Free Palestine” movement is a threat the lazy media should stop protecting and start investigating.