Americans should expect this growing trend of violence to continue. Not only Jews but Christians should take notice Todd Starnes, of Starnes Media, said on American Family Radio Monday.
“This is something that a number of members of Congress have told me over the years, that it's just not a matter of if, but when these sleeper cells are activated,” Starnes told show host Jenna Ellis, a Boulder native.
There are costs involved with Joe Biden’s open-border policy, Starnes said.
“Unfortunately, the Biden administration thought it was a good idea to bring in these very dangerous people into the United States, and it really does put every Christian, certainly every Jew in the crosshairs of these Islamic radicals that have been allowed into the country,” Starnes said.
Mohamed Sabry Soliman, an Egyptian national, is the suspect in custody after a flamethrower and Molotov cocktails were used to set people on fire as they gathered in support of hostages still held by Hamas, CNN reported.
Soliman, in the U.S. illegally and the lone suspect according to the FBI, yelled “Free Palestine!” during the attack. As of Monday afternoon, the attack had killed one and injured seven ranging in ages from 52 to 88.
Soliman had applied for asylum in the U.S. but was denied a visa to enter the country in 2005, CNN reported.
More recently, he entered the country in September of 2022. In March of 2023 he was granted a two-year work authorization that has since expired.
“I did it to avenge my people,” Soliman said, according to one law enforcement official, via the CNN report.
America’s grim list lengthens
In less than two months’ time, the U.S. has seen an attack on Pennsylvania’s Jewish governor – Josh Shapiro – and his family, two young Israeli diplomats murdered in Washington, D.C, and now an attack in Boulder, Colorado.
Law enforcement arrested 38-year-old Cody Balmer for the attack on the Shapiros.
He faces charges including attempted murder, terrorism, aggravated arson, and aggravated assault against an enumerated person, according to SpotlightPA.org.
“If he was trying to terrorize our family, our friends, the Jewish community who joined us for a Passover Seder in that room last night, hear me … no one will deter me or my family or any Pennsylvanian from celebrating their faith openly and proudly,” the Governor said, following the mid-April attack.
Then on May 22, Israeli Embassy staff members Yaron Lischinsky, 30, and Sarah Milgraim, 26, were shot and killed outside the Capital Jewish Museum in Washington, D.C., as alleged attack Elias Rodriguez chanted “Free, free Palestine!” while being detained by security.
“There are grave concerns there might possibly be other attacks, other sleeper cells out there,” Starnes said.
The Supreme Court on Friday allowed the Trump administration to revoke Temporary Protected Status (TPS) for approximately 500,000 illegals from Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua and Venezuela.
TPS status allows individuals to live and work legally in the U.S. if they cannot work safely in their home country due to disaster, armed conflict or “extraordinary and temporary conditions,” Fox News reported.
The TPS program was utilized by Biden near the end of his presidency.
The administration argued to the Supreme Court that a lower court ruling intruded on the executive branch’s authority.
The ruling comes after the Court earlier this month allowed the administration to revoke TPS for 350,000 Venezuelan immigrants.
The rulings are good news, but the Trump administration won’t be able to deport likely threats soon enough or in large enough numbers, Starnes said.
“We’ve got by the administration’s own numbers somewhere north of 20 million illegals living in the country right now," he said. "It’s really just a drop in the bucket when you look at the nature and the significance of the invasion of these illegals.”
An environment conducive to violence has evolved from antisemitism on college campuses, Starnes said.
It’s especially prevalent among the Ivy League schools which “have become an incubator for that sort of rhetoric,” he said.
Last spring Columbia University in New York became the epicenter of pro-Hamas demonstrations. Jewish students and faculty then complained about harassed or ostracized because of their faith or their support for Israel.
Now, Columbia is facing the loss of $400 million in federal cash from the Trump administration.
The administration has gone hard after Harvard too, seeking to cancel billions in research grants and threatening to revoke the school’s certification to host foreign students.
Local laws leave victims exposed
The victims in Boulder were exposed by heavy-handed local gun regulation, Starnes said.
“I was looking at some of the video of the immediate aftermath, and there was one woman, and you could hear her say, if only I had had my gun, and I tell you, Boulder County has the strictest gun laws in the entire state of Colorado,” Starnes said.
Biden’s border policy leaves the administration – and all Americans – in a tough spot.
“It’s a very dangerous time in America. Again, the radical Islamists are after the Christians and the Jews,” Starnes said.
