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Useful Idiots for Hamas

How campus protests turned into assassinations and firebombing.
Charles Fain Lehman /
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Illustration by Noah Hickey. (Photos via Victor J. Blue for The Washington Post via Getty Images; ELI IMADALI/AFP via Getty Images; Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

Last Sunday, Mohamed Soliman, a 45-year-old illegal alien from Egypt, lobbed Molotov cocktails into a group of people in Boulder, Colorado. He did so, he later told police, because of his hatred for these “Zionists,” who were peacefully marching to demand the release of Hamas’ hostages in Gaza.

Soliman’s attack follows the murder of Israeli embassy aides Yaron Lischinsky and Sarah Milgrim two weeks ago, and the April firebombing of Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro’s home by an antisemitic madman.

Charles Fain Lehman is a contributing writer at The Dispatch, fellow at the Manhattan Institute, and senior editor of City Journal.

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