Mohamed Sabry Soliman — the man who threw Molotov cocktails at elderly Jewish people outside a Boulder, Colorado courthouse while screaming about Zionists — just got sentenced to life in prison with no parole eligibility. And honestly? It's about time the justice system reminded domestic terrorists that actions have consequences.
Free Palestine? How about Free Never Again, pal. Enjoy the cell.
Let's rewind to June 2025. Soliman attacked people outside the Boulder County courthouse on Pearl Street at 1:26 p.m. local time, hurling Molotov cocktails at members of Run for Their Lives, a grassroots hostage advocacy group. His targets were elderly Jewish residents. He screamed "How many children you killed?" and "We have to end Zionists, they are killers" while literally setting human beings on fire.
One of those human beings was Karen Diamond, an 82-year-old woman who died from severe burn injuries. Eighty-two years old. Let that sink in.
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When police arrived, Soliman told them he wanted to "kill all Zionist people." Not exactly a mystery motive there, detectives. He was hit with 101 charges, including one count of murder. And on May 7, 2026, a judge looked at the evidence and said: life. No parole. Done.
The Diamond family released a statement that was as restrained as it was devastating: "Our only request is that the attacker never see his family again." That's not vengeance. That's justice speaking in the quietest possible voice.
Boulder Police Chief Steve Redfearn and Boulder County District Attorney Michael Dougherty saw this one through from arrest to sentencing. And here's where it gets even better — there are still 12 federal hate crime charges pending. The FBI isn't done with this guy. Not even close.
Now, I know what you're thinking. You're thinking about the campus protesters, the flag-wavers, the chant-leaders who scream "From the river to the sea" between Starbucks runs. Most of them are cosplay revolutionaries. But Soliman? Soliman is what happens when that ideology meets someone unhinged enough to act on it. He's the logical endpoint of a movement that celebrates violence against Jews and calls it "resistance."
His family has been in ICE detention in Texas for 10 months. There are consequences rippling out in every direction, as there should be.
The ADL weighed in. The FBI investigated. And a Colorado court delivered a sentence that actually matches the crime. Life in prison for a man who murdered an 82-year-old grandmother with a firebomb because she was Jewish.
No plea deal. No reduced charges. No sympathetic judge buying some "I was radicalized online" defense. Life.
We spend a lot of time in this space talking about a justice system that fails us. Today it didn't. Remember this one the next time some Ivy League professor tells you that anti-Zionism isn't antisemitism. Tell it to Karen Diamond.