{"id":1181,"date":"2026-06-03T18:33:16","date_gmt":"2026-06-03T18:33:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/coloradospringsmoverss.com\/?p=1181"},"modified":"2026-06-03T18:33:16","modified_gmt":"2026-06-03T18:33:16","slug":"pro-palestinian-group-at-cu-boulder-justifies-pearl-street-firebombing-calls-for-killers-release","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/coloradospringsmoverss.com\/?p=1181","title":{"rendered":"Pro-Palestinian group at CU Boulder justifies Pearl Street firebombing, calls for killer\u2019s release"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div><strong>Getting your Trinity Audio player ready&#8230;<\/strong><\/div>\n<div>\n<p>A pro-Palestinian student group at the University of Colorado Boulder said in a post on its website this week that the Pearl Street firebombing was justified and called for the man who pleaded guilty to murdering an 82-year-old woman to be freed.<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/coloradospringsmoverss.com\/?p=1179\">4-year-old dies after falling in St. Vrain Creek near Lyons and drifting more than 1 mile<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The group, Boulder Students for Justice in Palestine, said it honors the \u201cman who sacrificed his comfort and his proximity to empire, willingly expending his own liberty in attaining his objective,\u201d according to a page on the group\u2019s website that has since been removed from the homepage. CU Boulder denounced Boulder SJP\u2019s statement and reiterated that the university doesn\u2019t recognize the group as an official student organization.<\/p>\n<p>The group said the prosecution of Mohamed Soliman mimics the tactics used against Arabs and Muslims across the United States in the wake of the 9\/11 terror attacks.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe state would have us believe that Mohamed took the action he did because he is insane \u2014 a fanatic, a terrorist, guilty of a hate crime \u2014 but we know the truth and we reject the state\u2019s inversion of it,\u201d the group\u2019s site reads. \u201cMohamed chose the only sane response available to a rational human being confronted with the normalization of genocide.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The group called for Soliman\u2019s release and called for the abolition of Immigration and Customs Enforcement, citing the immigration turmoil Soliman\u2019s family faced for months after the firebombing attack.<\/p>\n<p>Boulder SJP has remained formally unrecognized by CU Boulder since 2024 because it has not remedied policy violations, CU Boulder spokesperson Nicole Cousins said in a statement. Cousins denounced the glorification of violence, according to the statement.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe denounce antisemitism, Islamophobia and violence in all forms, and prohibit discrimination and harassment on the basis of a protected class,\u201d Cousins wrote.<\/p>\n<p>Cousins said the post has been reported to the \u201cappropriate campus offices,\u201d according to a statement.<\/p>\n<div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Boulder\u2019s mayor pro tem, Tara Winer, said the post was hurtful and just another antisemitic statement in a string of hate toward Jewish people.<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/coloradospringsmoverss.com\/?p=1177\">Man shot by police in northeast Pueblo fired twice at law enforcement, police say<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt dehumanized the death of Karen Diamond and the suffering of the burn victims,\u201d Winer said. \u201cHowever, justice prevailed.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Soliman was sentenced to life plus 2,178 years in prison in May after pleading guilty to 101 charges in the Pearl Street attack. He apologized for the attack, but denounced Israel during his final words before being put behind bars.<\/p>\n<p>Victims who were set on fire during the June 1, 2025, attack confronted Soliman, 46, during the May 7 hearing, recounting the horrors they experienced that day on the Pearl Street Mall.<\/p>\n<div>\n<\/div>\n<p>\u201cWhen I\u2019m alone and close my eyes, I can vividly see Karen\u2019s body in flames,\u201d said marcher Orrie Gartner, who also described the smell of burnt flesh and singed hair.<\/p>\n<p>The day of the attack, Run for Their Lives demonstrators gathered on the mall for the group\u2019s weekly demonstration denouncing Hamas and urging the release of Israeli hostages being held in Gaza. Soliman saw the weekly walks as an opportunity to take revenge on the group he believed did not care about Palestinian hostages and supported the deaths of Palestinians, according to an affidavit.<\/p>\n<p>He carried out the attack, originally planned to be a mass shooting, by throwing multiple Molotov cocktails at the demonstrators, burning 13 and killing Diamond.<\/p>\n<p>Soliman faces a dozen federal hate crime charges in the attack. He pleaded not guilty in that case in June, but offered last year to plead guilty to those charges as well.<\/p>\n<p>He is expected to appear in court for a motions hearing in the federal case t 10 a.m. June 29 in the Alfred A. Arraj U.S. Courthouse in Denver, according to court filings.<\/p>\n<p><em>This is a developing story.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/coloradospringsmoverss.com\/?p=1176\">Filipino restaurant Magna Kainan to close in RiNo<\/a><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A pro-Palestinian student group in Boulder said that the Pearl Street firebombing was justified, and called for the man who pleaded guilty to murdering an 82-year-old woman to be freed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1180,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1181","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-crime-and-public-safety","category-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Pro-Palestinian group at CU Boulder justifies Pearl Street firebombing, calls for killer\u2019s release - 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