Witnesses at the scene told CBS Colorado that the suspect attacked people with Molotov cocktails who were participating in a walk to remember the Israeli hostages who remain in Gaza.
Run For Their Lives, which organized the walk, said, “This is not a protest; it is a peaceful walk to show solidarity with the hostages and their families, and a plea for their release.” The group met at 1 p.m. at Pearl Street and 8th Street to walk the length of the Pearl Street Mall and back with a stop at the courthouse for a video.
Just forgetting about hostages held by the genocidal government of Sudan?
Just forgetting about hostages held by the gangs dominating Haiti?
Do you not grasp how ridiculous your argument is? Why does concern for Israeli hostages, whom you clearly never gave a damn about, detract from the plight of Palestinians?
No. You’re talking out of your ass
You’re an antisemite.
This group doesn’t see Palestinian lives as worth as much as Israeli ones, clearly.
I’m sorry but 21 hostages don’t hold a candle to over 50k dead, including women and children and 1.8 million classified as “extremely critical” levels of hunger. There’s a famine in Gaza right now, they’ve been scorch earth bombed to hell resulting in widespread homelessness. Israel just gunned down and murdered 30 innocent people today and injured hundreds more who were there for food from an aid truck simply for crossing a line slightly before 6 AM.
Fuck out of here. Sudan and Haiti are not part of this conversation for a reason and it’s because Haiti is in the Caribbean for fucks sake so that’s a stretch to “you don’t care about hostages”. It’s a genocide orchestrated by the Israeli government. The hostages are a flimsy excuse at best.
It’s not a stretch. You said that protesting for Israeli hostages proves they didn’t care about Palestinians.
Since, in your diseased brain, you can only care about one cause at a time, this means you don’t care about Haitians.
If you aren’t an antisemite, why are you screeching about the Israeli government, when they had no involvement in the protest? It was just American Jews protesting in sympathy for their own.
The organization’s website says it was founded by Israelis. They carry Israeli flags. It is a pro-israel protest.
The reality of the situation is that those hostages do not fucking matter when Israel’s response is to carpet bomb the most densely populated region of the world, starve them, and trap them from ever leaving.
It is incredibly tone deaf to protest for the Israeli hostages.
Tone deaf is asserting that hostages don’t matter because you think someone else deserves attention better.
This is why you people are and will forever remain politically irrelevant. Nobody wants to associate with antisemites like you.
You are not having this conversation in good faith. You’re taking a very closed-minded perspective to someone saying “killing thousands of children is bad” AND “not enough was even done to save the hostages.” I’ve met people like you in real life, and I suspect the pain of admitting that you’re even slightly in the wrong about a country you value must really hurt, but it does not make genocide apologia ok. I’ve accepted my own country sucks, so you can make peace with a place like Israel too.
Also, if “discussion” like this is what this comm tolerates, I sure as hell don’t want to be a part of the conversations here.
I’m not making genocide apologia. I have not said anything regarding Israel.
I promise you it is 100% their genocidal actions I take issue with and not their religion.
What’s genocidal about wanting hostages released?
The fact that the government perpetuating the war doesn’t want the hostages released so as to preserve their justification for war.
Where the fuck does the government come into this? These are individual Jews coming together calling for the release of their own.
Yeah because everyone knows that Israel has been oppressing Haiti and Sudan for 80 years… So fucking disingenuous.
This is my core issue with a lot of people who label themselves as “pro-Palestine.” Equivalent levels of mass civilian suffering have been happening all over the Muslim world for decades - Yemen, Libya, Syria, Somalia, Sudan - yet hardly anyone seems to pay much attention when it’s Muslims killing other Muslims. But the moment it’s Jews involved, it becomes headline news and sparks protests in the streets. And in this particular case, the protesting had already started while Israelis were still being killed in Israel and the IDF hadn’t even stepped into Gaza.
I would be significantly less pissed off if the money that should be used to make our society function, were used here instead of to help perpetuate a genocide. That’s the difference with his one. I am directly paying to starve millions of people to death. It’s just one more subscription I have. An endless flood of images of human degradation and suffering brought to you by the USA and Israel.
To be honest, I don’t care about those 20 hostages. Israel certainly doesn’t. They are starving those hostages too, and bombing them. Indiscriminately. Why should I care when they clearly don’t. They want to kill more people, fine let them. Let them also face the consequences for those actions like every other middle eastern country. Without Big Brother standing behind them, Israel wouldn’t be able to do this shit.
Israel’s behavior in this genocide is not new. It’s not surprising except with its openness. I’m sure the person who threw the fire is completely unsurprised with how the war has gone.
To be clear, I have no more problems with jews than any other religious freak. But Israelis are vile swine.
Being angry about your tax dollars being used for something you ethically oppose is a fair point - and one I hadn’t considered before.
However, my criticism still stands when it comes to the rest of the world, where anti-Israel and pro-Palestine sentiment is comparatively similar, despite the lack of direct financial involvement.