The Dallas Holocaust and Human Rights Museum strongly condemns the attack on Sunday, June 1, 2025 on a Jewish group gathered peacefully in Boulder, Colorado for a weekly event calling for the release of Jewish hostages still held in Gaza by Hamas terrorists. The suspect, apprehended at the scene, apparently threw incendiary devices at those assembled, injuring several as he chanted pro-Palestinian slogans.

Antisemitism has no borders or boundaries; it is a worldwide plague that must be confronted and stopped. This savage violence follows closely on the murder of two Israeli embassy employees, Yaron Lischinsky and Sarah Lynn Milgrim, outside the Capital Jewish Museum in Washington, D.C. on May 21, 2025, and multiple recent incidents of vandalism in Paris, France including at the Memorial de la Shoah, France’s national Holocaust memorial and educational institution, three synagogues, and a Jewish-owned restaurant.

We must stand together against antisemitism in all its forms. Antisemitic incidents have increased dramatically since the horrific attack by Hamas on Israel on October 7, 2023, but antisemitism has been on the rise for over a decade and has always been with us. Acts of anti-Jewish terrorism and hatred are vicious and will lead to the destruction of our society. We know that antisemitism, the world’s longest hatred, is hard to comprehend. We must each ask ourselves: How can so much hatred be directed toward a group that is less than 0.2% of the world’s population?

The Museum is committed to helping our community answer this question by teaching about the long history and continuing impact of antisemitism, and the devastating consequences of letting this foul hatred go unchecked. We call on our community to condemn antisemitism by speaking out and standing up for Jews in our country and around the world.

– Mary Pat Higgins, President and CEO
– Ike Brown, Board Chair