Evening Edition: Suspect In Targeted Terror Attack In The Country Illegally
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45-year-old Mohamed Sabri Solomon is now charged with setting eight people at least on fire at a peaceful march in Boulder, Colorado. The group organizing the march were a small Jewish group that conducted regular, if not weekly, low-key marches in support of hostages taken on October 7th of 2023 by the Palestinian terrorist syndicate Hamas in the Gaza Strip.

Solomon is a problematic man. He's Egyptian. He overstayed his visa. He was allowed to stay with permission in the U.S. to work while seeking asylum. That authorization itself expired earlier this year, but he now tells investigators he's been plotting this attack for some time. And who was he attacking?

Did he say Jews? No. He says Zionists, who he claims stole the Palestinian land. Zionism is the belief that Jews have a right to self-governance in their homeland, not unlike the Irish in Ireland, the Italians in Italy, or the Hungarians in Hungary. But Zionist is now a code word, a way to make a violent ethno-religious hatred known.

sound like a political struggle. 95 plus percent of Jews globally are Zionists. So whenever, you know, whenever they put that label, they're referring to Jews specifically. Leora Rez is the executive director of Stop Antisemitism, the advocacy group which seeks to identify violent haters of Jews. This is another targeted attack against Jews.

So many people already forgot about Josh Shapiro's attack, you know, that horrific arson attack in the middle of the night on a holiday. And a week and a half ago, not even a week and a half ago, two young lives, Sarah Milgram and Yaron Lashinsky, they were so violently taken from us.

And again yesterday, so I'm 100% with you. We have to be enraged and say enough is enough.

and pray and hope and work to ensure that this doesn't happen again. This happening again is, the way I would look at this, is not, again, not a random thing. This is not a lone wolf. I mean, he may have acted independently, but this is a cascade of failures. This person has been, this person from the Boulder attack anyway, he has been in this country for a few years, overstaying a visa. He has family. He apparently has a daughter and children.

Again, to follow along the the rage issue here, we now know from the federal prosecutors that have filed their charges against him for a hate crime that he very openly told the investigators he had plotted this attack for a year. Yes. Yeah. And that he waited specifically until his daughter died.

finished graduation yeah i mean most most people wait until graduation so they can go on the family vacation or um you know they buy a new car whatever the case is this person this person very openly committed a terrorist attack he got up very close to who were elderly people or middle-aged to elderly people and didn't fire a firearm from a block away he he

He got up very close and he set them on fire. Yeah, no, it's it's honestly, it doesn't seem real, right? It seems like we're talking about some movie, some action movie. But as you had stated, DHS did show that he is here illegally as he overstayed his visa. He entered the United States via LAX in August 2022. Apparently, he's an Egyptian national on a B1, B2 non-immigrant visa.

And he was supposed to leave a year later or a little bit, excuse me, six months later, if I'm not mistaken, February 2023. However, he filed some sort of claim, possibly an asylum one in September of 2022.

and under the Biden administration received work authorization in March of 2023, which did expire two years later on March 28th, 2025. So he is currently in an

illegal overstayed status. We did stop anti-Semitism. Researchers did find that his place of employment, what he did, he pre-planned to delete his LinkedIn account.

But some traces of it were left. And apparently he's a staff accountant with Veros Health. So we're very curious to see how they had handled an employee with an expired visa. We're unsure if he was let go at the end of March as, you know, as the expiration date came or if he's still on payroll. But the bottom line is we have an illegal migrant from Egypt who

who tried to murder Jews on American soil in the name of free Palestine. What are you doing to help Palestinians? Nothing. You're doing nothing. You're doing nothing except causing havoc for your daughter, who actually immigrated here, I believe, as a high schooler from Kuwait.

You know, now she's most likely as a graduating senior, 18 years old. So, you know, you're putting her life and safety in jeopardy, her status in jeopardy. You're not doing anything going off on a tantrum about screaming and Zionist Palestine is free. He's doing nothing but creating hate and division. And he's just another product of this domestic violence.

free Palestine movement that we truly, truly feel needs to be labeled as a domestic terror group. But yeah, let's talk a bit more about that. He's not the only person to run around screaming, you know, a free Palestine. Uh,

We have seen this on college campuses. We have seen this with other groups of people who have just set up shop in front of businesses saying, don't go in there. It's owned by a Zionist Jew. This is getting it's gotten. I don't say getting it. It's gotten deadly. It's gotten ferocious. And it has been festering for not even a year or two. It's really been festering for, I think, decades now.

Oh, years. We are in a situation where this has gone unchecked. So how how would we get back to checking it? Because I don't think giving up is an option. And I don't think most people would simply, you know, most Americans of any persuasions are not going to be accepting of this as a new normal. But I think a lot of people might feel a bit powerless going, well, how do I stop this? Or, well, gee, this was over in Boulder. I live elsewhere in the country. You know, what do I do now?

Well, listen, it happened. It happened in Pennsylvania. Yeah, exactly. Right.

You know, and again, if we don't put a stop to it, it's going to happen in New York. It's going to happen in Chicago. It's going to happen in L.A. It's going to happen in Dallas, so on and so forth. This is just the beginning if it's not completely squashed. And I think the very first thing people need to do is realize that the free Palestine movement doesn't start and end with Jews. While they're screaming death to Israel simultaneously, they're also screaming death to America simultaneously.

We're the small stumbling block. The Free Palestine Movement's goals, again, it's not to help Palestinians. It's not to end the Palestinian-Israeli conflict or war or whatever is currently boiling over right now. Their goal is to create havoc and chaos and to dismantle Western American society. And I think that needs to be acknowledged and dealt with accordingly. How do you deal with it, though, on a...

on a more intimate or local level, if that's the right words. And I want to, again, stress that this didn't start just months ago or even a couple of years ago. It didn't start with Tree of Life Synagogue. It didn't start with Pentecost.

Right. Wow. Yeah. You know what? Let's actually talk about Colleyville. That's so true. I believe that happened in January 2021, if I'm not mistaken. I think, yeah.

on a Saturday late morning during Shabbat. Yeah. And you have an anti-Semitic maniac who, if I'm not mistaken, believed a rabbi in New York City with a simple call can free a jihadi terrorist.

being kept in prison, Lady Al Qaeda, if I believe it was. So he actually even surpassed Zionists. He just thought Jews controlled the world. Israel controlled the world, right? And yeah, I mean, it happened in Texas, San Diego with the Chabad, with the Poway Chabad, you know, unfortunately, the tragic murders in Tree of Life in Pittsburgh. Yeah.

And it's just amplifying and growing and growing. And until our lawmakers are the DOJ and just society in general sees a free Palestine movement for what it is, it's.

It's just a terror. It's a domestic terror group rooted in degeneracy. That's the best way to apply it and best way to define it. Excuse me. And I truly, truly think once that foundational step is established and agree on, then everything else can fall into place to get them off college campuses, rid them from the K through 12 educational systems that they're trying to now infiltrate. Yeah.

You know, with with the protests happening in New York City organized by groups like Within Our Lifetime, who is now named in the Southern District lawsuit in the Southern District of New York, WOL, W-O-L, who works simultaneously with SJP, Columbia, CUAD, Mahmoud Khalil's group out of Columbia. It's such an orchestrated domino effect that.

That when we define it, because if you can't define it, how do you fight it? Right. Yeah. Well, that's what I'm getting at. How do we define it? I mean, I'm someone who reminded myself of this earlier today, 20 years ago, covering the case in Tampa against the USF professor Samuel Arian.

who was fundraising for something called Holy Holy Land Foundation, which was an arm of Palestinian Islamic Jihad. But he was also a college professor professing this stuff to impressionable kids at the University of South Florida in Tampa. This is and this was 20 years ago. Yes, yes, exactly. It was in 2005. Exactly. And why are we still talking about this in 2025? Why has it gotten so popular?

much exponentially worse? Have we honestly forgot what America went through, you know, on September 11th, 2001? And I'm afraid the answer is yes.

The attack in Boulder, Colorado this weekend by an Egyptian national who overstayed his visa here in the U.S. against American Jews marching for the release of hostages in Gaza is a reminder that there is a festering violent anti-Semitism problem. Our guest is Leora Rez of StopAntiSemitism.org. Here on the Fox News Rundown Evening Edition, please like, subscribe and share. We'll have more straight ahead.

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Well, and it is all connected. If one remembers the manifesto from Osama bin Laden that was published in newspapers in the days after September 11th, which somehow became popular again, popular reading and via tick tock in the past year, bin Laden came out and said, we're doing this because of your involvement in Israel.

Exactly. This is all tied together. And there are it's very, very strange to me. There are groups of people who find their affinity with terrorists thinking that they are picking up the side of the underdog.

But there's another side of this that thinks America ought to disinvest or divest or disinvolve itself from the rest of the world. And

it's almost like giving the bully your lunch money, thinking that they're going to leave you alone the next day. And I don't really understand that. Um, that may be beyond the scope of this conversation here, but, but what do groups like yours, like stop antisemitism? What, what can they do? I mean, it's one thing to, to play whack-a-mole here with, uh,

you know, coming up with dossiers on unsuspected people who may be fomenting this violent anti-Semitism, but there has to be an end game, you know? Yep, there's such a fantastic question. So Stop Anti-Semitism features and exposes anti-Semites who operate and live in our society, in the medical field, in the law field,

hairdressers, realtors, so on and so forth. And the amount of anti-Semitism that we are finding since 10-7 is truly astronomical. When we dig a little bit further, the amount of anti-Semites that work in the medical fields just in that specific niche market is troubling. So this particular attacker, Mohammed Salman, he actually, again, as I had mentioned, worked for Veros Health.

And we often find, not frequently, but we often find that hospitals, private health care providers, they're very quick to brush this anti-Semitism under the rug when we bring it to their attention, where these individuals are literally cheerleading for the murder of Jews, denying rapes, denying the murders and

of young children denying 10/7, praising for their ratification, their eradication and promoting the eradication of the world's only Jewish nation, they brush it under the rug. And unfortunately, you know, it's a very fine line where the Mohammed Solomons of the world go from a boring staff accountant at Vero's Health in Boulder, Colorado, to

domestic terrorist that is on every news channel on Sunday night on June 1st 2025 so what we do is alert the public that FYI you have a raging anti-semite on payroll and we often work with law enforcement if we feel there are threats and oftentimes

things like this can be prevented. However, we can't turn a blind eye anymore that, you know, to green light it and brush it under the rug. And we had one medical provider hospital out of Western Mass, I believe it was Bay State, who has a pediatric gastroenterologist spewing some of the most disgusting anti-Semitism that we've heard of. Their excuse was he's older, he doesn't know how to use social media.

Which is flabbergasting because I don't think it would, you know, if he privated his post, I don't think that would have been better. Might have been worse. That's even worse. Exactly. Residents refused to work with them. The hospital didn't oblige their request. They forced collaborations with the residents and himself.

We're not sure if he was forced to, you know, undergo some kind of sympathy training. But this is a physician who lives in Connecticut, you know, in a in in a town that is pretty populated with Jews, one of the highest in Connecticut, working again as a pediatric gastroenterologist, praising the death of Jews and denying 10-7 at the same time. Would you take your three year old to him for care?

Jewish or not. Yeah, that's a...

And we don't know if one of Mahmoud or Mohammed, excuse me, Mohammed Solomon's co-workers raised any concerns. We don't know if any community members. But what we're seeing is more and more when people, you know, they've been told, see something, say something. When they say something, it's completely ignored. And we end up with tragedies like this, like we saw yesterday, like we saw a week and a half ago.

And it's it's so heartbreaking. It truly, truly is. Is there a way to disincentivize whether it's corporations, whether it's it's, you know, public sector entities from putting up with this, from their employees, from their people who associate them? I mean, we can.

groups like yours can, you know, can raise the issue. They can could lead to something like, say, a protest or a boycott or something. But ultimately, how do you change the hearts and minds here? How do you get them to act? Yeah. So the good news is the vast majority act. And

And the vast majority are outraged by this behavior. We would probably say about 70 percent err on the side of caution, understand that this is this employee is a legal liability for them in term of patient care, reputational brand damage, so on and so forth. How what can people do? You know,

social media is just the information highway. It's taken over everything from media to advertising, to shopping, to education, to misinformation, unfortunately, but to make your communities aware, to do your research, you know, everybody says, Google dry cleaners. You have to Google your physician, you know, you and your loved ones. It's the, you know, life is the most valuable thing we have. Be careful who you're taking care.

you know, who you're seeing and taking your loved ones to for care, vet your doctors, vet your teachers. And then if you see something alarming, you know, see something, say something, we want to hear it. Contact stop anti-Semitism.org. We have a submit page on our website. You know, we try our best not to let anything fall through the cracks. We're very, very proactive. And we try to make the public aware. Thankfully, the press have been

fabulous partners in terms of highlighting some of these individuals, highly problematic individuals that have a high statistical chance to do bodily harm. You know, and the question is, we're really, really curious. What did Mohammed Solomon's social media look like?

Did any of his co-workers raise any kind of questions to his behavior? Were there any warning signs? Because there so often are. And, you know, as time goes on, slowly these details are going to come out. And we might see that something like this could have been prevented, unfortunately. Leora Rez with StopAntiSemitism.org. Thank you so much for being with us on the Fox News Rundown Evening Edition. Thank you so much. Always a pleasure.

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