[International politics/Israel-Palestine conflict/antisemitism.]

"The Israeli government is eradicating Palestinians! The international community should pressure them with sanctions and refuse to send weapons to their frontlines." Sane. Reasonable. Not antisemitic despite what bots on tumblr and twitter claim.

"I'm going to murder Jewish people about it."

I opened the news and what do you mean someone used a homemade flamethrower.

yeah uh no wonder people who are Jewish are side-eyeing anyone with "zionists dni" in their header.

Wasn’t it at a pro-Israel demonstration tho? Like. It’s still scary and bad to attack people at a marathon with a home made flame thrower!!! But also, I think to call the motivation anti-Semitic when it was a secular event explicitly supporting the government that is doing a genocide right now is.....

if they're purposely plotting a violent response, then it is antisemitic

MON AMI 🌞 : I think I read the guy's actions as like. He was just looking for an excuse to hurt Jewish people, and it was just coincidence current events have lined up in a way that enables it.

Oh, was there more about his motivations? Sorry I could only find that his name was Mohamed and he said “free Palestine” so if there more on him that I missed I do apologize.

MON AMI 🌞 : Now I'm wondering if the info I read was incorrect. It was on Reddit and be damned if I can find it now.

Yeah, so the event was a 5k fundraiser to bring awareness to hostages/prisoners in Gaza. I'm going with antisemitism.

2025 Boulder fire attack - Wikipedia

I DUNNO. I do not. Using flame thrower at an event with kids is fairly reprehensible on its own merits. But if it was an event supporting genocide, and the guy doing the attacks said it was about genocide, I don’t think that actually means it was about race. BUT ONE CAN NOT EMPHASIZE ENOUGH THAT HE USED A FUCKING FLAME THROWER AT AN EVENT WITH KIDS.

Oh reading article now, ty

it was def not just antisemitism that convinced a guy to kill people with fire but I bet it was sure a great excuse for him to be violent

hate it