Democrats See No Evil as Jews Burn in America
By John Kass
June 4, 2025
After all those violent angry anti-Semitic protests by the Democrat hard left, and the screaming on college campuses led mostly by shrieking young women shouting “from the river to the sea,” all those Democrats in Congress afraid of their party’s hard leftist base and paralyzed with fear, America has entered a new phase of leftist hate.
They’re burning Jews now.
They’re burning Jews in America.
Their calls to globalize the intifada have been realized.
Our people are being burned.
The Boulder, Colorado terrorist, Mohamed Sabry Soliman, an Egyptian national here by courtesy of the Biden administration wanted to buy a gun.
But he was an illegal migrant who had overstayed his visa, he couldn’t legally buy a gun. So, he improvised, using a homemade flamethrower and Molotov cocktails to burn the Jews that vexed him.
They are Americans.
After his arrest, authorities quoted him as saying he “wanted to kill all Zionist people, wishing they all were dead.”
He yelled “Free Palestine” during his attack. He had at least 15 firebombs at the scene to use.
There were six elderly victims of the “Run for Their Lives” group that had gathered in Boulder, as they often do. The group calls for the release of Israeli hostages held by the Palestinian terrorist group Hamas, which is directed by Iran.
The Boulder terror burning attack comes after a series of antisemitic attacks and as the crescendo of Jew hate drowned out almost everything else. It comes after Senate Democrats led by Sen. Bernie Sanders pointedly blocked a resolution by Sen. Tim Scott condemning anti-Semitic hate.
The burning of Jews in Colorado comes after a series of pro-Palestine protests on college campuses. And after the home of Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro was fire-bombed by a pro-Palestinian activist.
And those two young Israelis who were about to be married? They were gunned down by a Chicago leftist in Washington, D.C.
The alleged killer, Elias Rodriguez of Chicago is close to several Chicago Democrats–including U.S. Rep. Chuy Garcia—shot each of the Israeli embassy officials multiple times. He then shouted his support of “Free Palestine.”
So where are we now?
Consider this cover of a recent New York Post of the alleged Egyptian terrorist holding his firebombs just as he tried to kill Jews:
We’re on the precipice of death and destruction, on the edge of horror with more to come.
Consider: President Joe Biden and his See-No-Evil Democrats allowed between 12 million and 20 million illegal immigrants—many single men of military age–to cross the borders into the US.
And that includes people on the terrorism watch list. Democrats and their allies in the federal judiciary are now trying to stop all deportation efforts.
How many gotaways, got away and are waiting for orders to attack as America prepares for a big, beautiful 250th birthday celebration? As the eyes of the world fall on the United States during the upcoming World Cup.
On the news as I type this, various leftist tiktokers are defending the Boulder terrorist and spewing out their predictably partisan hate of Israel. And what we called “mainstream Democrats” say nothing, afraid lest they anger their progressive wing, complaining about a lack of leadership.
The Jacobins devour themselves before our eyes.
Also this: The American media is divided, with leftist media outlets like Jake Tapper’s CNN offering mealy mouthed support to Mohamed Sabry Soliman.
CNN and others of that ilk were clearly offended by the “terrorist” badge being pinned on him. And conservative media, eager to strike back at the Deep State after all these years, rub their hands in glee demanding we do something, anything to snuff out the anti-Jewish feelings in American culture even if that means shutting down the nests that incubate hate, our universities.
My question: Just how do we do that and keep our liberty and guarantee free speech and our Bill of Rights?
I’ve been on the other side of this one, publicly and wrongly defamed by the Tribune and its leftist newsroom union of being anti-Semitic. Why? Because I dared criticize George Soros, the billionaire leftist who began using his wealth to elect do-nothing prosecutors across the country, including in Chicago. Anti-Semitism is a serious charge, and they including the ADL cheapened it when they applied it to me.
That’s water under the bridge.
Now, what worries me are those who may legitimately criticize Israel run the risk of being lumped in with mindless hatred.
Of immediate concern are those in this country who would fashion other firebombs, or grab guns for mass shootings and vent their hatred for Jews as they’ve been taught by the hard progressive left and their corporate media.
Border czar Tom Homan warned recently that he’s “convinced” the US will suffer a major terrorist attack as a direct result of former President Joe Biden’s immigration and border policies.
“It’s coming,” Homan said on Fox News of the possibility of a 9/11-style attack conducted by migrants who illegally snuck across the southern border under Biden.
He can’t stop thinking and worrying about the roughly 2 million so-called “gotaway” migrants who the Border Patrol agents never apprehended during the Biden administration.
Biden and his people opened the doors wide. And what may come of it may be worse than anything we can imagine. The hate is out there being stoked by the hard left, by their media lickspittles. This concerns Homan more than the drug smuggling or sex trafficking that took place on the US-Mexico boundary during Biden’s only term in office, he told Fox News.
Who knows how many threats are out there? But sticking your head in the sand isn’t the act of a reasonable American. Neither is it reasonable for the Democrats to play See No Evil, Hear No Evil, Speak No Evil as their hard left base hunts Jews.
There will be profound sadness amidst the screams to come.
See No Evil is a luxury that Americans can no longer afford.
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This terrorist and the domestic terrorist, Shamsud-Din Jabbar, who murdered 14 people and injured at least 57 others on New Years Day 2025 with his pickup truck, and many more murderers got their anti-semitic marching orders from the pages of the Quran, particularly from the 9th Sura of the Quran.
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and where are the Democrats like Pritzker and Rahm to condemn their party’s quislings? they’re silent cowards
JK
And no one even asks them to condemn the terrorists. Why?
Why? Because they are the Bitches for the far left, especially the MSM!
Indeed!
Deport his family, daughter can go to school in Egypt. Who’s paying off these judges slow walk these deportations?
Between the CCP and the Middle East terrorists allowed by Biden to infiltrate our borders, it is a matter of time for one or many of them to unleash a dirty bomb on one of our cities as had been feared following 9/11. Mission accomplished Democrats. Conspiracy thinking, me think not. We just busted a CCP student in the USA trying to smuggle a biological agent to destroy our agricultural crops in an act of bioterrorism,
Rather amazing isn’t it, that the Democrats call Trump a Nazi, when the Democrats are the ones acting like the Nazis.
We are sadly reaping what the democrats have sown.
The upcoming 250th birthday of Freedom for our nation is scary indeed. I was part of the effort in NYC to recover and identify the dead for the NYC Medical Examiner. I like Homan see a danger that we have never experienced. While we praise the Drone attacks in Russia, how many ticking time bombs are out there within our borders. Even uncoordinated, rogue acts to destroy infrastructure and lives is a real threat from these sleepers here during the Biden open door policy. A visible target date is coming. I fear for my kids and grandchildren. We can never stop being vigilant. Prayers said and fingers crossed. Thank you JKN for being a beacon for men of good will.
Personally, what i liked was the way dr. Kass slipped in “during biden’s only term in office.”
I noticed that, too 🙂
The Democrats now have four points of leadership: a doddering old socialist who once honeymooned in his beloved Soviet Union, a New York-loony bartender who endorses Marxist policies though she’s never read Marx, hysterically angry college-educated women, and mobs of young leftists whose primary belief is that Jews are specially evil white people.
In response to this hard-truth Kass column, I really want to hear from the handful of Democrat trolls who comment here, reaching for something to whine about. Please make your “progressive” case for murdering Jews. Tell us why Trump deserved your party’s campaign to eliminate the modern Hitler during last year’s assassination season.
Tell us what Democrats stand for now.
You and JK miss the larger issue in my view. Historically Jews have farmed out their protection to others. How’d that workout? Not very well. Certainly not in Germany and Eastern Europe decades ago. And history says it won’t work out well here in the US. Jews need to toughen up. They need to take responsibility for their own protection, since the state will not, as this article shows. Jews need to get out of the victim lane. American Jews need to learn how to fight; learn how to use a gun. They need to show all out support for the 2nd (which is unique in the US … Jews must finally take advantage of this gift). And then finally of course leave – en mass – the Democratic Party.
And of course like most commentators, you and Kass conveniently ignore the elephant in the room. I know. Inconvenient that: Why do so many Jews support their self destruction? Look at Jewish Voices for Peace for instance. And then of course the deafening silence from prominent Jews (as you touched upon): Pritzker, Rahm, Schiff, Nadler and so many more. And of course then the old Marxist himself, Sanders, a Jewish antisemite. How do you explain this self loathing and guilt ridden cowardice? Make no mistake that is what it is.
So I’m wondering David, do these inconvenient uncomfortable truths make me a troll? Perhaps an antisemite?
John, you are surprised? Kohelet, whom you know as Ecclesiastes, was correct: There is nothing new under the Sun. Can you imagine the response if elderly Greek-Americans were torched during , for example, a Greek Independence Day celebration, March 25? There would be outrage!
But, these are only some Jews. Jews, whose whose development and practice of Morality and Ethics preceded Socrates and Aristotle. So, a lot of words will be exhaled, much rhetoric will be proclaimed, and, at the end of the day, everyone will merely go about their business. Except we Jews.
We Jews will treat our wounded, bury our dead, and continue to be a Light Among the Nations. And, to paraphrase Rabbi Kahane, we really don’t give a damn what the world thinks.
Valuably recounted and written, Mr. Chuven. Many of us non-Jews recognize the gift to human civilization of the Light Among the Nations. For instance, I feel fortunate in having enjoyed a 10-year friendship with an Auschwitz survivor named Martha, my most valued book being the account of another brilliant Auschwitz survivor, Victor Frankl, and my favorite music being that of a Jew who could have been sent to the camps had he not died at 50, Mahler. Thanks.
Jews in America voted around 70% for Biden in the last presidential election. While you quote Rabbi Kahane, who was assassinated by a naturalized American of Egyptian descent ironically in light of Boulder’s Egyptian terrorist, apparently the only visible pro-Jewish Congressman is John Fetterman for all his other faults, but where are the other actual Jewish political leaders besides “burying our dead? “
Perhaps I didn’t clearly make my point. We are not asking for the politicians to support us. They exhale the empty words and sport the lofty rhetoric.
I’ll quote Menachem Begin’s reply to Senator Joseph Biden (6/22/1982): “Don’t threaten us with cutting off your aid. It will not work. I am not a Jew with trembling knees. I am a proud Jew with 3,700 years of civilized history. Nobody came to our aid when we were dying in the gas chambers and ovens. Nobody came to our aid when we were striving to create our country. We paid for it. We fought for it. We died for it. We will stand by our principles. We will defend them. And, when necessary, we will die for them again, with or without your aid.”
The point I am trying to make in lights of your comments is that I do not see any Jews standing up; for themselves in any meaningful way. Do not give me quotes from past and dead Jewish heroes, give real and present Jewish warriors. Funny, once upon a time Rahm E. was a Jewish warrior who stood up and active when American Nazis “invaded” Skokie, Illinois, where is he today? Where are all the young Jews who live in luxury In Highland Park, Deerfield, Wilmette and Winnetka? Like the Italian Jews portrayed in the “Garden of Cinzi-Contini” they have sold their souls to the woke Left.
For many they have bought into the DP woke narrative: Israel is an aparthied state, Israel is committing genocide, Jews are “white adjacent” i.e. part of the oppressor class … it goes on and on. That’s the real tragedy that seems to be beyond Kass’ and Bittinger’s comprehension. It’s almost as if a large percent of American Jews have a variation of the Stockholm syndrome.
As PM Begin stated, we will die for our principles. Sorry that you expect foreign, not Israeli, politicians, Jewish or Gentile, to stand up. They won’t and it has been this way for thousands of years. Israeli politicians to speak up, loudly, very loudly. It is a lively debate, reminiscent of the Talmudic discussions that we learn about.
Consider the native-born Israelis. They, like the Jews who make Aliyah, who move to Israel and become citizens, are the quiet heroes. You do not hear about them, except when they are killed, or perhaps win a sports or academic contest. They go about their lives, go to school, work, marry, have families, many serve in the IDF, put up with the diatribes (from politicians, often), the vitriol, the abject falsehoods, and other deliberate calls for injury and death. There are some, like brothers Ari and Hillel Fuld, who speak out clearly and forcefully. But for most, their actions speak for them, much more loudly than words.
Wow. Thank you John Kass for this column as the need to sing about those who deny antisemitism is too great. God bless you John Kass.
Yes, I shall repost this on Facebook and X ….it is my remaining ability to type things that need to be typed and passed on in words of strength such as yours who I often copy, but try to give credit.
The sickness of the Ds is so spread out in so many forms, a barf bag seems to be needed in so many homes and other areas.
I could go on further as to compare what is going on now as to the burning of jews and killing of jews here in the USA with the startling effects of Nazi Germany in the 30’s…I am sure that would not be necessary, but the fact that history is not educating people nowadays and is the reason why so many had flunked or never taken a course in history….hmmmm.
Thank you again John Kass and keep on keeping on. God bless.
Tom
With drones and things like that, terrorists have more tools at their disposal. With the Democrats, they have an enabler. It’s all they need
Just as the fear-stoked aftermath of 9-11 brought uniparty Deep State tentacles tightening around us in the guise of Patriot Act, FISA court abuses and Real ID “protections”, the next terror attacks will not be allowed to “go to waste”.
Yianni,
As I step back, and observe all the rhetoric on every news outlet detailing the cruel acts of anti-semitism throughout the land, I’m in fear that we are approching “the end of days!” This madness isn’t ending anytime soon, and will only escalate, killing or maiming more innocents, in the name of Hamas, under the rule of Iranian mullahs – who will have a nuclear weapon soon with which to threaten us all. Socialist judges continue to thwart Trump’s effort to deport illegals, in spite of the fact that they are really criminals. Which leads me to my conclusion – we’re really screwed if we can’t put an end to this insanity….
Islam is a phoney religion.
Good news is that the wife and children of this demon are being shipped out pronto. And Demo-nazis are screaming ‘due process’.
Just think. In the UK you could be fined and jailed for “hate speech” in reference to your Islam comment. Thank God – and our Founders – for the First.
All true, and said conciesly, John. Things I never saw, or even thought about growing up in the late 40’s, through the 50’s, and into the 60’s are happening now. I hear some people say that things and people in this country have not changed much – it’s just that we hear about things sooner. I disagree. American society (ethos if you will) has been going generally downward, and faster each year. Many good people true, but a grandpa said, Things ain’t like they used to was!
Our people are being burned.
They are Americans.
I believe Tom Homan, “It’s coming.”
Thank you for writing a great article.
I honestly don’t know how to feel. I’ve never seen what I’m seeing now. What scares the shit out of me is the media. The saying they have one job to do is almost redundant. They scream about a dictator yet haven’t they themselves have become the dictator they object to?
I fear along with many of what’s coming.
We no longer live in a sane society.
We’ve been told that illegal immigrants commit less crimes than citizens. Here’s a fact:
100% of crimes committed by illegal aliens are /were preventable. They should never have been here. Period.
Great column. Egypt, and all the other neighboring Muslim nations, have allowed very few, or zero, Gazan refuges into their country. They don’t want to free or help Palestine, they want to destroy Israel.
I think you have a mistake. I think that “Bernie Sanders pointedly refused to condemn a resolution by Sen. Tim Scott condemning anti-Semitic hate.” Should be “Bernie Sanders pointedly refused to endorse…”
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Frank
Thanks for covering the play. Fixed now.
JK
Your question: Just how do we do that and keep our liberty and guarantee free speech and our Bill of Rights?
Stop every thing. Declare America is a White Christian Nation and impose National Emergency and clean up. Like I wrote to the Trump White House in 2020, send Obama-Biden and the Supreme Court Justices to a firing squad or in exile to a remote island for promoting same-sex unions for personal/political gains and bringing in the Covid pandemic.
Nambi
At this point in this country, the Jews should know they alone are responsible for their security during public demonstrations like the one that was attacked. The twenty million or so illegals allowed entry were infested with agents of hostile agents sent here to commit destruction. Our complicit media already has its agenda forwarded, IF ITS SOMETHING BAD, BLAME TRUMP. IF ITS SOMETHING GOOD, BLAME SOMEONE ELSE. After attacks like this they don’t blame the person responsible, JOE BIDEN. Or the political party responsible. THE DEMOCRATS. It’s Trumps fault. Get it? The economy rebounding? Prices of food coming down? Gasoline prices down? Most of these are at the lowest prices in five years. Sort of like somethings changed in those five years. Right? The mainstream media can’t tell you the truth. It refuses. No one is buying their BS anymore. Let it die. Good riddance.
Great job as always, Mr. Kass. What scares me the most about our current situation is that I remember back in the 50s and 60s when we were concerned that the Russians were going to bomb us. As I hid under my desk in grade school, I remember a phrase “Better Red than Dead”. That meant that if the Russians did come, the “smart people” would simply join them, and therefore guarantee their lives.
What scares the hell out of me about our current situation is that when the bad stuff happens, and it is going to happen, I wonder how many people, encouraged by the (sic) “media” and our gutless political figures will do the same damn thing. Just lay down, don’t resist the lunatics, and let them take over. Maybe if you don’t resist they’ll let you live.
The tens of thousands of people, with no vetting or background checks of any kind, that were allowed (actually “encouraged”) to illegally come to the U.S., no doubt include a number of the type of lunatics that we saw in Boulder. I shudder to wonder how many there are. And when the attacks get worse, and they will, I shudder to think how the (sic) “leadership” of our country will respond.
Animals involved in this evil, like the recent episode in Boulder only understand one thing, Superior Force, delivered Immediately. They don’t bother with legal niceties, their goal is to destroy, and we’d better wrap our heads around that or this great country, that I love, will not last.
“Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety.” Ben Franklin, 1775
Grampa Brody Thanks You for this column. It is an act of courage, and an effort that can never be repaid.
Great work John Kass!
Homan is correct. It’s just a matter of time. Be wary.