Colorado pol who refused to condemn Boulder firebombing shows true colors at council meeting: critics
An anti-Israel official in Boulder, CO, refused to condemn as antisemitic the horrific firebombing of Jews at a peaceful demonstration — then “doubled down” by wrapping herself in the colors of the Palestinian flag, critics said.
Taishya Adams took office shortly after Hamas’ Oct 7, 2023 massacre of 1,200 Israelis.
Adams, 50, was seen as “egging on antisemitism,” an insider told The Post, long before Egyptian national Mohamed Sabry Soliman unleashed a flamethrower and Molotov cocktails last week on unsuspecting members of the group Run 4 Our Lives.
The group holds a weekly walk calling for Hamas to release the remaining Israeli hostages. Soliman, 45, faces 118 criminal counts for the June 1 incident which left 15 people, as well as a dog, seriously hurt.
When city officials offered a “letter of solidarity” this week condemning the hate crime — Adams was the sole councilmember who refused to sign.
She then turned up at the live-streamed Thursday council meeting in a bright red blazer with a large green scarf wrapped around her neck.
“She’s doubling down,” seethed the insider.
“It’s disgusting,” seethed Run for Our Lives member Aaron Brooks of the pro-Palestinian fashion statment. “It’s grossly insensitive.”
Local Rabbi Marc Soloway slammed Adams in a withering speech Wednesday in front of Gov. Jared Polis.
“In this moment when we’re reeling, just days after someone tried to burn Jews to death, that the city council could not unanimously denounce this as an act of antisemitism is horrifying,” he told The Post.
City council member Mark Wallach ripped Adams — who is liaison to Boulder’s Palestinian “sister city” of Nablus and returned from a self-funded official trip last month – during the meeting.
“You may find that act courageous — but I find it inexplicable and virtually inexcusable,” blasted Wallach, addressing Adams directly. “Where is your sense of grace and mercy?”
The flummoxed Adams stumbled through a word salad response, pointing to her statement about yanking her support for the solidarity letter, and claimed she looked forward to “continued dialogue,” noting this is “not time for the head, but for the heart.”
Adams’ ongoing “anti-Israel propaganda” has included posting about anti-Israel demonstrations on the anniversary of the Oct. 7 attack and ripping the City Council last year for having “blood on our hands” for failing to pass a ceasefire resolution against Israel.
Omer Shachar, co-leader of the walk, called the attack “pure antisemitism” and recalled seeing an octogenarian friend aflame.
“When I think about Sunday, I see her,” he said, noting she was “on fire — top to bottom, from legs to the hair.”
He can’t shake the imagery of friends with “skin just peeled off.”
“It’s beyond words.”