From Be’eri to Boulder: How the West's Moral Collapse Fuels Hamas’s Global War

In Boulder, Colorado, families gathered peacefully at the Pearl Street Mall to call for the release of Israeli hostages held in Gaza. It was a routine Sunday demonstration — somber, heartfelt, civic. Then, at 1:26 p.m., a man approached and hurled a Molotov cocktail into the crowd. Children and adults were burned. Their crime? Daring to speak up for Israelis in public.

The suspect, Mohamad Soliman, now faces arson and attempted murder charges. Colorado’s Attorney General called it what it is: a hate crime. But let’s not mince words. This was terrorism — the weapon, the target, the timing, the intent. All of it fits the profile.

This attack didn’t happen in a vacuum. It came just days after college graduation ceremonies across the country — including at MIT — where Hamas was applauded and Israel was libeled as a genocidal state. In Cambridge, future engineers and scientists cheered slogans first coined in Gaza tunnels. In Boulder, those same slogans were literally weaponized in a bottle of fire.

On October 7 day, Hamas terrorists stormed into Israel and committed acts so barbaric they still defy imagination: babies beheaded, children burned alive, women raped beside their murdered relatives. In Kibbutz Be’eri and other towns, entire families were incinerated in their homes. Like Boulder, it wasn’t a military engagement. It was a war on civilians. And like Boulder, the motive was not resistance. It was hatred.

And yet, the slogans shouted by Soliman in Boulder — “Stop killing babies,” “Zionists,” “genocide” — were not his inventions. They were borrowed. Recited. Echoed. These are Hamas chants, recycled in Western classrooms, legitimized in the language of elite media, and now hurled with fire in American streets. The ideological weaponry of Hamas has gone global, and its physical weaponry is no longer confined to Gaza.

We are no longer just dealing with a regional conflict. We are witnessing the export of Hamas’s war against Jews, in rhetoric and arms. Molotov cocktails in Colorado. Machete attacks in Paris. Car ramming in London. And the justifications, always the same: colonialism, genocide, resistance. These slogans don’t just rationalize terror. They inspire it. They license it.

And now they are being used — not metaphorically, but literally — to burn Jews.

French President Emmanuel Macron, fresh off accusing Israel of behaving like Russia, claimed the EU cannot condemn Moscow’s invasion of Ukraine while “remaining silent” on Gaza. Israel's Foreign Ministry called the accusation a lie — and it was. There is no “humanitarian blockade,” no campaign of extermination. But there is an old story here: the libels shift, the phrases modernize, but the moral inversion stays the same. The Jew defending his family is now a war criminal. The terrorist chanting “resistance” is the victim.

There will be time to assign blame — and there’s plenty to go around. But that time is not now. Right now, the focus must be on exposing and severing the Hamas-Harvard nexus and similar sick relationships between terror and academia. When institutions of higher learning become safe havens for ideological justifications of child murder and firebombings — when faculty members dress up terror in the robes of postcolonial theory and moral relativism — they cease to be universities. They become laundromats for barbarism. That rot must be cut out, not rationalized.

And that assault is not confined to Gaza’s battlefields or Boulder’s streets. It is being applauded from the podiums of our most prestigious universities.

At Harvard Divinity School’s commencement this past week, a graduating student celebrated a classmate who physically assaulted an Israeli student as a hero, drawing whoops, cheers, and applause from the assembled crowd. The speaker praised this act of violence, not despite its brutality, but because of it, holding it up as an expression of moral courage. This was not a fringe outburst in a campus quad. It was a sanctioned speech, at a formal graduation ceremony, cheered on by future lawyers, doctors, politicians, and faculty members cloaked in the regalia of civilization.

This is what moral collapse looks like: when assault is rewarded with applause, when hate becomes virtue, and when the line between political expression and criminality is not blurred — it is erased. From Harvard to MIT to Columbia, the slogans of Hamas are no longer foreign. They are fluent. They are laundered through the language of justice and echoed in every “resistance” chant and every classroom justification of terror.

The Molotov cocktail in Boulder was not an isolated act. It was the physical consequence of a cultural shift — years in the making — that has legitimized the dehumanization of Jews under the guise of progressive morality. The rhetoric and the weapons are now one. The university has become both the forge and the amplifier.

Zionism, unlike the Oslo delusion, never promised utopia. It promised only this: if the world will not protect the Jews, the Jews will protect themselves. And when attacked, they will not bow. They will fight.

The Psalmist wrote: “Rescue me, O Lord, from the hands of foreigners, whose mouths speak lies and whose right hands are false.” Today, those lies are shouted in quad rallies, whispered in UN halls, and printed in prestigious newspapers. And they are being hurled, quite literally, with flame and shrapnel at Jewish children — in southern Israel and now on the streets of America.

We must recognize it for what it is: the global projection of Hamas’s war on the Jewish people, not just through tunnels and rockets, but through slogans, proxies, and Molotov cocktails. We are not watching isolated incidents. We are watching a strategy. The rhetoric and the weapons are now one.

This terror attack also came on the eve of Shavuot. This holiday commemorates the moment God entrusted the Torah to Israel, not just a covenant of faith, but a covenant of destiny. The Jewish people stood together at Sinai and accepted a mission that binds them to law, to truth, and to moral clarity. But that covenant was not forged in fragility. It was forged in strength — in the willingness to stand apart, to carry the burden of chosenness, and to defend that identity with courage. Today, it demands that we protect Israel — and every Jew — with more forcefulness, resolve, and clarity than we have previously mustered.

And so, choose life, said Moses. Not slogans. Not false peace. Not paralysis in the face of evil. Choose clarity. Choose strength.

Choose Zionism. And let’s finish the war, wherever it rages.