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Sunday’s firebombing of a peaceful crowd in Boulder, Colo., is just the latest proof that Hamas’ hate has far too much of a home here in America. The mostly elderly group was holding a vigil
for Israeli hostages still held in Gaza by Hamas terrorists; Mohamed Sabry Solima, apprehended for assaulting them with Molotovs and an improvised flamethrower, screamed “Free Palestine”
and “End Zionists.” Just as Elias Rodriguez reportedly shouted “Free, free Palestine” after the cold-blooded slaughter of two young Israeli Embassy staffers outside the Capital Jewish Museum
in DC, less than two weeks before. And as prosecutors say Cody Balmer cited “the Palestinian people” as _his _concern in the April arson attack on Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro’s home.
Time and again, the supposed evils of Israel’s war in Gaza to prevent another Oct. 7 become the justification for violence against Jews in America. Then again, that’s fundamentally what the
tentifada campus protesters are calling for, and the Democratic Socialist “anti-Zionists,” too — even if only one faction of the movement is honest enough to say so outright. (The
“moderates” don’t expel them for it, note.) MORE FROM POST EDITORIAL BOARD And this hate is woven through countless institutions, from the Squad in the House of Representatives to so much of
the Columbia faculty to Arthur Cheliotes, a veteran city labor leader with an honored post at CUNY, who spread antisemitic conspiracy theories and lies about the Gaza war. This poisonous
crackpot was central to the founding of the “labor justice” program at CUNY’s Labor and Urban Studies School and served on its advisory board until he resigned Monday in the wake of The
Post’s exposé. And CUNY Chancellor Felix Matos-Rodriguez still has _his _job despite the antisemitism plaguing the faculty and administration. Heck, the Democratic Socialists’ most-favored
candidate, Zohran Mamdani, seems to be surging in the Democratic mayoral primary. It’s past time for the vast, sane majority to reject these antisemites _and _all their enablers: Until it
does, expect these acts of terror to keep coming.