{"id":2442121,"date":"2025-06-03T08:30:01","date_gmt":"2025-06-03T12:30:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/media-that-obsessed-over-elons-salute-downplay-antisemitism\/"},"modified":"2025-06-03T08:31:42","modified_gmt":"2025-06-03T12:31:42","slug":"media-that-obsessed-over-elons-salute-downplay-antisemitism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/media-that-obsessed-over-elons-salute-downplay-antisemitism\/","title":{"rendered":"Media That Obsessed Over Elon\u2019s Salute Downplay Antisemitism"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">16<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fmedia-that-obsessed-over-elons-salute-downplay-antisemitism%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2442121&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>On a recent Sunday in Boulder, Colorado, an illegal alien named Mohamed Soliman reportedly shouted &#8220;Free Palestine&#8221; while using a makeshift flamethrower in an attack on a crowd of Jewish individuals, leading to his arrest on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/viral-video-of-ahmaud-arberys-death-prompts-challenges-in-jury-selection-for-high-profile-murder-trial-in-ga\/\" title=\"Viral video of Ahmaud Arbery\u2019s death prompts challenges in jury selection for high-profile murder trial in Ga.\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/mother-of-ahmaud-arbery-files-civil-lawsuit-on-anniversary-of-sons-killing\/\" title=\"Mother Of Ahmaud Arbery Files Civil Lawsuit On Anniversary Of Son\u2019s Killing\">federal hate crime<\/a> charges<\/a> among others. This incident has drawn attention to a larger trend of violence against Jews, particularly connected to the &#8220;Free Palestine&#8221; movement, which the media has been criticized for downplaying. Various cases of antisemitic violence, including the murder of two Israeli diplomats adn an arson attack on Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro&#8217;s home, were met with a lack of urgency in media discussions about their antisemitic motives. The focus in the media frequently enough shifts away from the ideological implications when covering these acts, contrasting sharply with the rapid condemnation directed towards public figures like Elon Musk over less critically important gestures. The article urges for greater media scrutiny of growing antisemitic threats associated with certain political movements and stresses the need for a more open conversation about this rising violence.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>On Sunday an illegal alien named Mohamed Soliman allegedly shouted, &ldquo;Free Palestine&rdquo; and used a makeshift flamethrower to set a crowd of Jews on fire in Boulder, Colorado. According to a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.justice.gov\/opa\/media\/1402301\/dl?inline=&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_source=govdelivery\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">criminal complaint<\/a>, Soliman &mdash; who has been <a href=\"https:\/\/www.justice.gov\/opa\/media\/1402301\/dl?inline=&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_source=govdelivery\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">charged<\/a> with a federal hate crime and <a href=\"https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/US\/boulder-attack-suspect-us-illegally-homeland-security\/story?id=122409898\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">several other crimes<\/a> &mdash; said that he &ldquo;wanted to kill all Zionist people and wished they were all dead.&rdquo; But the media seem just as eager to downplay the antisemitic nature of this attack (and other instances of violence against Jews) as they were to accuse Elon Musk of antisemitism for raising his hand in the air.<\/p>\n<figure>\n<p><span><\/p>\n<blockquote data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<div lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">\n<p>In response to several questions received overnight regarding the Pearl Street attack, we are sharing the following:<\/p>\n<p>*No victims have died<br \/>*The suspect&rsquo;s mugshot is seen here and his date of birth is Dec. 15, 1979.<br \/>*The next press conference will be later today and details will&hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/valMiZFbsm\">pic.twitter.com\/valMiZFbsm<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>&mdash; Boulder Police Dept. (@boulderpolice) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/boulderpolice\/status\/1929544758738751982?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 2, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><\/span> <\/p>\n<\/figure>\n<p>Only five months ago, when the media freaked out over Musk&rsquo;s gesture, the propaganda press wanted you to believe it was hypervigilant about antisemitism.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>In one of President Donald Trump&rsquo;s January inauguration events, Musk was flailing his arms about, and at one point, his hand went from touching his chest to an outstretched arm. Click went the cameras; wag went the tongues.<\/p>\n<p>A raised arm! That is never a friendly wave or the innocent movement of an expressive person, the propagandists&rsquo; &ldquo;extremist experts&rdquo; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/technology\/2025\/01\/21\/elon-musk-salute-trump-inauguration\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">claimed.<\/a> The move can only <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/01\/24\/world\/europe\/elon-musk-roman-salute-nazi.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">mean<\/a> Musk is a fascist Nazi.<\/p>\n<p>Only the truly stupid believed that load of donkey droppings. Yet the<a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2025\/01\/20\/after-elon-musk-raises-his-hand-from-his-heart-pbs-labels-him-fascist\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"> totally bogus<\/a> &ldquo;Nazi salute&rdquo; became the favorite topic for several news cycles. Nothing Musk has done before or since indicates he is connected to such an abhorrent movement. &nbsp;<\/p>\n<figure>\n<p><span><\/p>\n<blockquote data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Elon Musk shows his love to the crowd and the media portrays Elon as a Nazi\/Hitler supporter. Corey Booker makes the same gesture and the media is radio silent. The hypocrisy of the main stream media is mind boggling! <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/89qO6PHAVZ\">pic.twitter.com\/89qO6PHAVZ<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Republican Wins Media (@BasedInYoFace) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BasedInYoFace\/status\/1929162041882730672?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 1, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><\/span> <\/p>\n<\/figure>\n<p>But cue the crickets. The propaganda press is now nearly silent on in-your-face antisemitism, failing to sound the alarm that the &ldquo;Free Palestine&rdquo; movement is at the root of recent high-profile crimes.<\/p>\n<p>Last month the Department of Justice <a href=\"https:\/\/www.justice.gov\/usao-dc\/pr\/federal-charges-filed-after-deadly-shooting-israeli-diplomats-dc\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">charged<\/a> Elias Rodriguez, 31, of Chicago, with the murders of Yaron Lischinsky and Sarah Lynn Milgram, &ldquo;two Israeli Embassy staff members outside the Jewish National Museum in Washington, D.C.,&rdquo; according to the DOJ. Rodriguez was caught on video after his arrest <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2025\/05\/22\/us-news\/video-shows-moment-suspected-gunman-elias-rodriguez-outside-jewish-museum-is-arrested-while-shouting-free-free-palestine-as-witnesses-describe-helping-him-before-realizing-he-was-the-killer\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">shouting<\/a>, &ldquo;Free Palestine,&rdquo; but his ideology <a href=\"https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/US\/suspect-killing-couple-capital-jewish-museum\/story?id=122068843\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">has<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/05\/22\/us\/politics\/dc-shooting-suspect-israel-embassy-aides.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">been<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2025\/05\/28\/nx-s1-5414616\/jewish-museum-shooting-political-violence\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">downplayed<\/a> in the news. &nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>A man allegedly claiming responsibility for killing two Jewish people and then yelling out &ldquo;Free Palestine&rdquo; is apparently not enough for ABC News to conclude that antisemitism was a motive. In writing about the murders, ABC News&rsquo; Helena Skinner and Bill Hutchinson quoted Israeli Foreign Minister Gideo Sa&rsquo;ar this way: &ldquo;The motive for the attack remains under investigation by authorities, but Sa&rsquo;ar alleged, &lsquo;This is a direct result of toxic anti-Semitic incitement against Israel and Jews around the world that has been going on since the October 7th massacre.&rsquo;&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>In response to the murder of these two young Jews, taxpayer-funded NPR reacted with skepticism instead of clearly calling out antisemitism. &nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;If, indeed, the suspect planned to kill people because of their Jewish faith, this would represent a major anomaly in lethal, antisemitic violence,&rdquo; NPR National Security Correspondent Odette Yousef wrote. She then went on to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2025\/05\/28\/nx-s1-5414616\/jewish-museum-shooting-political-violence\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">quote<\/a> &ldquo;expert&rdquo; Seth Jones, president of the Defense and Security Department at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, who claimed that it is the &ldquo;far right&rdquo; white supremacists who are most often the attackers, and it is rare and new to see violence from the left.<\/p>\n<p>New York Times writer Julie Bosman <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/05\/22\/us\/politics\/dc-shooting-suspect-israel-embassy-aides.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">mentioned<\/a> a social media post from Rodriquez that read, &ldquo;Escalate For Gaza, Bring The War Home&rdquo; in paragraph 20 of her story, but first she talked about his &ldquo;life typical of a college-educated young professional in Chicago&rdquo; and recounted his work history as a writer and researcher. &ldquo;He enjoys reading and writing fiction, live music, film, and exploring new places,&rdquo; Bosman quoted from his online biography. His nice life story is detailed, his ideology less prominently so. &nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The attack on Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro&rsquo;s mansion provides another example. The mansion was set on fire in the middle of the night during Passover in April as his family slept upstairs. Cody Balmer, 38, called police, turned himself in, and reportedly confessed. Balmer allegedly <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2025\/04\/15\/democrats-normalized-the-same-political-violence-that-torched-pa-governors-mansion\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">told<\/a> police that if he met Shapiro in the <a href=\"https:\/\/dauphin.crimewatchpa.com\/sites\/default\/files\/310\/case\/2025\/04\/balmer_criminal_complaint_and_affidavit-mdj_klein.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">mansion<\/a> after he broke in, he planned to beat him with a sledgehammer. During his phone call to police, Balmer <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/philadelphia\/news\/cody-balmer-josh-shapiro-residence-fire-gaza-palestinian\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">blamed<\/a> Shapiro for &ldquo;what he wants to do to the Palestinian people.&rdquo; The governor is Jewish but has no power over the political dealings of Israel.<\/p>\n<p>The media were all over this story, but antisemitism was not the thrust of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/news\/us-news\/know-arson-suspect-fire-pa-gov-josh-shapiros-residence-rcna201096\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">coverage<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/pittsburgh\/news\/governor-josh-shapiro-pennsylvania-arson-fire-details\/\">at first<\/a>. (Notice how Musk only had to have his arm in the wrong place for a moment to be compared to Hitler, but arson at the home of a Jewish leader during Passover does not <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3YuVZYV\" >immediately pique media curiosity<\/a>.)<\/p>\n<p>Once Balmer&rsquo;s Palestinian comment was made public, the focus was not on the dangerous movement gathering steam in the United States, but on Shapiro&rsquo;s victimization. Shapiro allowed the press to interview him <a href=\"https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/US\/exclusive-gov-shapiro-interview-arson-attack\/story?id=120919258\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">sitting in the middle of a&nbsp;burnt-out room<\/a>.&nbsp;His voice cracked, and he <a href=\"https:\/\/whyy.org\/articles\/arson-pennsylvania-gov-josh-shapiro\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">nearly cried<\/a> while making numerous speeches&nbsp;about the incident. Shapiro <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox43.com\/article\/news\/local\/dauphin-county\/josh-shapiro-good-morning-america-interview-highlights\/521-615cca0a-817f-44a3-9a1d-535b03d8d0b8\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">said<\/a> that &ldquo;this kind of violence&rdquo; should &ldquo;be universally&nbsp;condemned.&rdquo;&nbsp;But that is as far as any national conversation went.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Free Palestine&rdquo; protesters are appearing more often, intimidating university students trying to get to class, interrupting speeches at public events, and generally disturbing the peace. They chant, &ldquo;From the river to the sea,&rdquo; meaning they want to wipe out Israel and the Jews who live there. This is in keeping with Hitler&rsquo;s design, and the public should be vigorously warned of this real threat.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>When someone tells you who they are, pay attention. The &ldquo;Free Palestine&rdquo; movement is a threat the lazy media should stop protecting and start investigating. &nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>      Beth Brelje is an elections correspondent for The Federalist. She is an award-winning investigative journalist with decades of media experience.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mohamed Soliman allegedly shouted &#8220;Free Palestine&#8221; and attacked Jews<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":104,"featured_media":2442122,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Mugs-123.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[7053,32192,33295,39734,36971],"class_list":["post-2442121","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-antisemitism","tag-elon-musk","tag-media-criticism","tag-public-figures","tag-social-commentary"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Mugs-123.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2442121","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/104"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2442121"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2442121\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2442125,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2442121\/revisions\/2442125"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2442122"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2442121"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2442121"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2442121"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}