Let’s be brief with this one.
An apparent attack on a gathering of Israelis in Boulder, Colorado, on Sunday, closely follows the shooting of two Israelis in Washington DC last week.
I covered the Washington DC shooting here. I said then that the timing of the attack was very coincidental, coming at precisely the moment that Israel’s government needed just such a perceived attack on Jewish people to occur.
Netanyahu and co used that incident to shift the discussion away from the mounting condemnation of Israel that was occurring in the mainstream – and to restore the narrative of rampant antisemitism and of Jews being under existential threat everywhere.
In short, I had scepticism about the Elias Rodriguez case.
So it isn’t surprising that another perceived attack on Jewish targets has just happened – Tel Aviv still very much needs both that narrative tool and the useful distraction.
And the Boulder perpetrator Mohamed Sabry Soliman seems to have provided it.
Something I specifically predicted last week was that “Free Palestine” was going to become the new ‘Allahu Akbar” – the new convenient tag or slogan to help the media specify the supposed ideological leaning or motivation of the attacker.
And I was right: the very first reports of this Colorado attack made it absolutely clear that the attacker shouted “Free Palestine” as he carried out his attack.
Just as the Washington DC shooter Elias Rodriguez allegedly did.
Again, very neat and tidy, narrative-wise.
By the way, there wasn’t any footage released of the Washington DC incident: no pictures.
This attack in Colorado was also immediately labelled a ‘terrorist attack’ by the FBI – just like the Washington DC shooting was.
This is despite police initially considering this a premature categorisation.
Trump’s handpicked FBI Director Kash Patel (among other things, a QAnon enthusiast) was awfully eager to define this as terrorism as quickly as possible. Which seemingly reeks of a prefabricated narrative.
It is also said that police were searching ‘to see if there was a second suspect, which some initially thought’. There’s been no subsequent mention of a second suspect.
Conveniently, Soliman also happens to be an illegal migrant – which fits the current US administration’s optics perfectly. And strangely, it is reported he had some sort of ‘USAID’ documentation in his vehicle.
But let’s come back to the ‘Free Palestine’ thing: and how it’s becoming the new calling card.
Why is this important? Well, because Psy-Ops and false-flags by their very nature require clear and concise narratives. So ISIS terrorists were often quoted as saying “Allahu Akbar” (often falsely) – so that their alleged religious motivation was clear.
Likewise, “Free Palestine” is quickly becoming the new buzz phrase: it’s important to include in the story so that the very phrase ‘Free Palestine’ becomes associated with violence or extremism.
It also allows a broader demonisation of people who use the phrase ‘Free Palestine’ or who support the Palestinian cause in general.
In an environment where people are already being erroneously labelled as terrorist sympathisers or as ‘Hamas’ – sometimes just for attending protests – these alleged ‘Free Palestine’ terror attacks are designed to escalate the suppression, demonisation and potential criminalisation of pro Palestinian sentiment.
Which is designed to run parallel, again, to the perception of murderous antisemitism and worldwide Jewish victimhood – all of which aids not only Israel’s Gaza narrative (at a time when it really needs it), but also the perceived justification for the militant Zionism that is driving Israel’s extremists.
To be blunt, every or any perceived (or actual) attack on Jewish targets is a desirable event for the Israeli government and for extreme Zionists.
I was saying this as far back as Charlie Hebdo or the Friday 13th attacks in Paris in 2015: but it’s even more the case now, as international opinion is so heavily turning against the Israeli state.
In 2015, after the Jewish kosher store attack in France (which coincided with the Charlie Hebdo attack: a false flag event I examined here the day after it occurred), Netanyahu made a huge show of it, even coming to Paris despite being told not to by the French leader.
I wrote then: ‘The taking of Jewish Kosher store victims back to Israel for burial amid a highly expanded, emotive ceremony (despite the fact they were French citizens) further amplifies this garnering of international sympathy for the Jewish community and the Israeli cause: at a time, let’s reiterate, when the Palestinian government finally may have the right to pursue legal action against Israeli state terrorism…’
This was in the wake of France threatening to recognise a Palestinian state and the Palestinians pursuing war crimes charges against Israel for the 2014 bombardment of Gaza. The point being that the strategy remains the same.
Look, just like last week with the DC shooting, I’ll say here that this occurrence in Colorado might’ve been a straight-up terrorist act driven by anti-Israel sentiment.
But I’ve been covering/examining false flags here for over a decade.
And my scepticism shouldn’t be confused for mere cynicism: if anything, it’s more a case of pattern recognition.
And neither of these recent attacks feel entirely convincing.
