No Country For Anyone

Indeed:

Six people were injured Sunday in what the FBI immediately described as a “targeted terror attack” at an outdoor mall in Boulder, Colo., where a group had gathered to raise attention to Israeli hostages held in Gaza.

The suspect, identified as 45-year-old Mohamed Sabry Soliman, yelled “Free Palestine” and used a makeshift flamethrower in the attack, said Mark Michalek, the special agent in charge of the Denver field office. Soliman was taken into custody.

No charges were immediately announced but officials said they expect to hold him “fully accountable.” ...

 The attack took place at the popular Pearl Street pedestrian mall, a four-block area in downtown Boulder, where demonstrators with a volunteer group called Run For Their Lives had gathered to raise visibility for the hostages who remain in Gaza as a war between Israel and Hamas continues to inflame global tensions and has contributed to a spike in antisemitic violence in the United States. It occurred more than a week after the fatal shooting of two Israeli embassy staffers in Washington by a Chicago man who yelled “I did it for Palestine, I did it for Gaza” as he was being led away by police.

 

 

Meanwhile, in Canada: 

Treasury Board President Shafqat Ali accepted free flights from a Muslim advocacy group in traveling to Jerusalem to be photographed at prayer, new filings with the Ethics Commissioner confirmed yesterday. Ali had himself photographed in a mosque and later called the Israeli shelling of Gaza “the tragedy of the century.”

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The New Democrats’ foreign affairs critic in a podcast Friday compared Jews’ military action in Gaza to the murder of innocent civilians in World War II. MP Heather McPherson (Edmonton Strathcona) was silent as her interviewer likened the killing of Palestinians to the Holocaust: “We are 19 months into this genocide.”