Police and FBI in Colorado are responding to “targeted terror attack” in Boulder, Colorado on Sunday against a gathering raising awareness of the plight of the Israeli hostages in Gaza.
According to the Anti-Defamation League, the attack targeted a weekly Jewish community meetup in support of the hostages kidnapped on October 7.
FBI chief Kash Patel confirmed the agency was investigating a “targeted terror attack.”
Local Police briefs media on the Boulder Colorado terror attack on Jewish protestors who were demanding release of 58 hostages in Hamas custody in Gaza. Several people injured in the terror attack. Investigations are still underway. One person is in Police custody. https://t.co/zHiNf3YECM pic.twitter.com/yYsl08OLCR
— Aditya Raj Kaul (@AdityaRajKaul) June 1, 2025
Israel’s Ambassador to the UN Danny Danon responded to the attack stating that “terrorism against Jews does not stop at the Gaza border – it is already burning the streets of America. Today, in Boulder, Colorado, Jewish people marched with a moral and humane demand: to return the hostages. In response, the Jewish protesters were brutally attacked, with an attacker throwing a Molotov cocktails at them. Make no mistake – this is not a political protest, this is terrorism. The time for statements is over. It is time for concrete action to be taken against the instigators wherever they may be.”
In response to the Colorado attack, Israel’s Ambassador to the UN Danny Danon says 'we're facing a wave of antisemitic terror against Jews in the United States' pic.twitter.com/Rt3E9T42CD
— i24NEWS English (@i24NEWS_EN) June 1, 2025
Boulder’s police chief Steve Redfearn, meanwhile, said at a news conference that it was “too early” to call it a terror attack. Redfearn said he wasn’t in a position to identify the suspect yet, noting that he’d been taken to the hospital. He said there were multiple injuries among the victims, ranging “from very serious to more minor.”
Seems like everyone and their mother is treating Boulder as an antisemitic terror attack, except the Boulder PD, which can’t quite find the link.
— Mordechai Wagenheim (@Mike_Wagenheim) June 1, 2025
The attack comes some two weeks after the murder of Yaron Lischinsky and Sarah Lynn Milgrim, two Israeli embassy employees, in Washington, D.C. by a man shouting “free, free Palestine.”