NY Times omitted firebomber’s nationality in coverage of antisemitic Colorado attack

Another left-leaning news source, MSNBC, inaccurately described the suspect as a “white male” in its initial coverage.

By Matthew Xiao, The Washington Free Beacon

The left-leaning New York Times’s initial coverage of Colorado’s anti-Semitic terror attack, in which the attacker used a “makeshift flamethrower,” left out that the suspect is an illegal immigrant from Egypt, instead identifying him as “of Colorado Springs.”

In its “Who is the suspect?” section, updated at 5:52 a.m., the Times left out any reference to Mohamed Soliman’s nationality or illegal status, Omri Ceren noted on X. Fox News’s Bill Melugin reported that information around 9 p.m. on Sunday.

“Nothing on: nationality, immigration status, how he got into the country, when he got into the country, etc,” Ceren, Sen. Ted Cruz’s (R., Texas) legislative director, wrote.

“To the extent that his origin is gestured toward at all, he’s described as ‘of Colorado Springs.'”

Another left-leaning news source, MSNBC, inaccurately described the suspect as a “white male” in its initial coverage.

Soliman on Sunday threw Molotov cocktails and used what the Times called a “makeshift flamethrower” on peaceful Boulder, Colo., demonstrators raising awareness for Hamas’s hostages.

Videos posted online show that he yelled, “We have to end Zionists.”

The attack wounded eight victims between the ages of 52 and 88, police said. One of the victims is a Holocaust survivor, a friend told Boulder’s 9News.

President Donald Trump has cracked down on anti-Semitism, which surged in the United States under former president Joe Biden’s watch.

Trump has revoked visas of foreign nationals linked to anti-Semitic activity and withheld billions in federal funding from universities that fail to curb anti-Semitic protests on campus.

Trump has also ramped up deportations of illegal immigrants. Under border czar Tom Homan, ICE has arrested more than 158,000 illegal aliens, around 75 percent of whom have criminal convictions or pending charges, according to the Department of Homeland Security.

The Times updated its article hours later with a statement from Department of Homeland Security spokeswoman Tricia McLaughlin, who confirmed that Soliman is “in the United States illegally, having entered in August 2022 on a tourist visa from Egypt and stayed past the visa’s expiration in February 2023.”

Soliman filed for asylum under the Biden administration, McLaughlin added.