As our Jorge Bonilla just lately noticed:
“If it seems like a duck, walks like a duck, quacks like a duck and throws Molotov cocktails at Jews whereas shouting “Free Palestine” and “Finish Israel,” it’s a terrorist.
However not so quick, says Juliette Kayyem: it’d truly simply be a duck!
Commenting on the assault on a Jewish group in Boulder Colorado, by Mohamed Sabry Solimanan, an unlawful alien Egyptian wielding a flamethrower, Bonilla caught Kayyem criticizing the Trump administration for prematurely calling it an act of terrorism.
And when an antisemitic attacker shot and killed two Israeli embassy staffers exterior the DC Jewish Museum, we caught Kayyem admitting that you “cannot deny” that he was yelling “Free, Free Palestine,” and that it MAY be a hate crime.
Kayyem is a former Obama DHS official, who’s now a CNN senior nationwide safety analyst. Introducing her on Tuesday’s CNN This Morning, host Audie Cornish did not disclose Kayyem’s Obama affiliation. Cornish proceeded to tee up Kayyem to criticize the Trump administration in reference to the Boulder assault:
“Given the cuts to the Justice Division grant applications that truly take care of hate crimes and prevention, is that this DOJ even positioned to take care of a rising drawback [of antisemitic incidents]?
Kayyem was solely too pleased to swing at that tee ball:
“It’s in a more durable place than it was earlier than. Each at DOJ and DHS, there are grants to assist group safety efforts in addition to nonprofit safety, nonprofit group safety. And people usually included synagogues, Jewish group organizations, and different locations that may have supported safety in addition to reporting on antisemitism. So there’s a hyperlink between kind of the choice to not likely concentrate on prevention. That was kind of the choice by DOGE and all of those cuts. And that can have an effect on each reporting, and the safety of varied communities, and particularly, the Jewish one.”
Translation: So, okay, President Trump and Elon Musk won’t have personally loaded Mohamed’s flamethrower, however by lowering funding to favored liberal NGOs, they enabled his assault.
Here is the transcript.
CNN This Morning
6/3/25
6:02 an EDTAUDIE CORNISH: Becoming a member of me now’s CNN Senior Nationwide Safety Analyst Juliette Kayyem. She’s a former Homeland Safety Assistant Secretary. And Juliette, I usually flip to your writing since you discuss lots about political violence. So thanks for being on the present this morning.
JULIETTE KAYYEM: Thanks. Thanks for having me.
CORNISH: So I used to be wanting on the numbers from the Anti-Defamation League. They are saying they recorded greater than 9,000 antisemitic incidents in 2024, and that is a 344% enhance over 5 years.
Given the cuts to the Justice Division grant applications that truly take care of hate crimes and prevention, is that this DOJ even positioned to take care of a rising drawback?
KAYYEM: Sure, it’s in a more durable place than it was earlier than. There nonetheless exists a civil rights division, though it has been basically gutted at this stage. And that is the group that prosecutes these federal hate crimes.
However there’s items of the federal government that we do not see lots. They’re the one, you understand, they don’t seem to be in a courtroom. And these are the grants and funding that you simply talked about.
Each at DOJ and the Division of Homeland Safety, there are grants to assist group safety efforts in addition to nonprofit safety, nonprofit group safety. And people usually included synagogues, Jewish group organizations, and different locations that may have supported safety in addition to reporting on antisemitism.
So there’s a hyperlink between kind of the choice to not likely concentrate on prevention. That was kind of the choice by DOGE and all of those cuts. And that can have an effect on each reporting, and the safety of varied communities, and particularly, the Jewish one.
