Writing on Instagram in a post that has since been deleted, SJP praised Soliman for “striking against the colonist procession.”By Dion J. Pierre, The AlgemeinerThe University of Colorado Boulder’s Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) chapter on Monday celebrated the first anniversary of a deadly antisemitic firebombing which occurred just a mile away from campus, drawing blistering rebukes from Jewish community advocates.Mohamed Soliman, 46, an Egyptian national, last month pleaded guilty to all charges he faced in state court for hurling Molotov cocktails at a pro-Israel rally in an attack on June 1, 2025, that killed one person and left more than a dozen others injured.The victims were taking part in a peaceful rally in downtown Boulder to raise awareness for the plight of Israeli hostages seized by Hamas-led Palestinian terrorists and taken to Gaza on Oct. 7, 2023.In total, 14 people were burned or injured while fleeing the Boulder attack, and 15 others were close enough to be considered targets of attempted murder. Karen Diamond, 82, died of her injuries later that month.Writing on Instagram in a post that has since been deleted, SJP praised Soliman for “striking against the colonist procession” and described the incident as “merely a case of chickens coming home to roost.”Calling for Soliman’s release from prison, the group continued, “Mohamed chose the only sane response available to a rational human being confronted with the normalization of genocide. He refused the comfortable position of the grateful immigrant and the role of obedient subject, choosing confrontation with a violent system over passive proximity to the comfort of empire.”Soliman, who was sentenced to life in prison, still faces separate hate-crimes charges in federal court that carry a possible life sentence or capital punishment.In a post shared on the X social media platform, the Anti-Defamation League denounced SJP’s post for being “detached from basic facts human decency and reality,” adding, “this is unacceptable and simply horrific.”Meanwhile, Israel War Room, a social media page which tracks antisemitic incidents, said, “This is where years of anti-Israel incitement lead: not peace, not coexistence, but the open glorification of terrorism and violence against Jews and their supporters.”The University of Colorado condemned SJP’s statement as well, calling its contents “abhorrent” and noting that it “has been reported to the appropriate campus offices for further review.”Students for Justice in Palestine’s apparent endorsement of terrorism against Jews underscores the reality of new ADL statistics which show a rise in antisemitic violence perpetrated with “deadly” weapons.According to the organization’s latest annual audit of antisemitic incidents, the use of weapons in such acts increased 40 percent in 2025, a data point reflected not just in Soliman’s firebombing but also in the gunning down of Israeli embassy staffers Yaron Lischinsky, 30, and Sarah Milgrim, 26, outside a Jewish museum in Washington, DC last May.The US Justice Department said last month it will seek the death penalty for the man accused of the double murder, Elias Rodriguez, 31, who according to court documents said, “I did it for Palestine; I did it for Gaza.”For several years, including before Hamas’ Oct.7, 2023, massacre across southern Israel, SJP’s members and supporters were involved a slew of incidents of identity-based physical assault, verbal abuse, and discrimination.These included anti-Zionists spitting on Jewish students at the University of California, Berkeley while calling them “Jew”; gang assaults at Columbia University’s Butler Library; swastika graffiti; the desecration of Jewish religious symbols; and the expulsion of a sexual assault survivor from a victim support group over her support for Zionism.The wave of campus antisemitism included numerous other incidents, including a faculty-SJP group’s sharing an antisemitic political cartoon which marked Jews and Israel as enemies of people of color; a Cornell University student threatening to murder Jewish men, whom he called pigs, and to rape Jewish women and perpetrate a mass shooting at the campus’ kosher dining hall; and professors praising Hamas’ Oct. 7 atrocities, which included mass murder, sexual assault, and kidnapping, as legitimate modes of “resistance.”SJP has played a central role in the surge in antisemitic incidents on campuses across the US, in certain cases even trying to mainstream youth support for jihadist terrorism.In September 2024, Columbia University’s most strident SJP spinoff distributed literature calling on students to join the Palestinian terrorist group Hamas’ movement to destroy Israel during the school’s convocation ceremony.“This booklet is part of a coordinated and intentional effort to uphold the principles of the thawabit and the Palestinian resistance movement overall by transmitting the words of the resistance directly,” said the material, which was passed off to incoming freshmen.“This material aims to build popular support for the Palestinian war of national liberation, a war which is waged through armed struggle.”Other sections of the pamphlet were explicitly Islamist, invoking the name of “Allah, the most gracious” and referring to Hamas as the “Islamic Resistance Movement.”Proclaiming, “Glory to Gaza that gave hope to the oppressed, that humiliated the ‘invincible’ Zionist army,” it said its purpose is to build an army of Muslims worldwide.In March, the group promoted terrorism again, with the University of California, Berkeley chapter sharing a reel in which deceased Palestinian Islamic Jihad senior fighter Farouk Salameh argued for “the armed option” against the “Zionist enemy.”Terrorism “is the only way,” Salameh said in video shared by the Berkeley SJP group, adding, “What was taken by force should be returned by force. This land was taken by force, and it will be taken back by force. This is a Zionist enemy. It builds settlements and expands. There is no place for negotiations.”Students for Justice in Palestine should be banned from college campuses for promoting terrorism, researchers Dr. Dan Diker and Jamie Berk wrote in a comprehensive history of the group written for the Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs.“SJP is not a peaceful, mainstream pro-Palestinian equivalent to pro-Israel student organizations,” Diker and Berk explained.“SJP has maintained links to convicted terrorists and terror groups. It also sanctions violence, bigotry, harassment, and intimidation of Jewish and Israel-friendly students and faculty on campus.”The post Students for Justice in Palestine praises Boulder firebomber on anniversary of attack appeared first on World Israel News.