This July 8, 2026 Op-Ed by CAMERA’s Tamar Sternthal appeared in The Jerusalem Post.
Screenshot of AP’s July 1, 2026 coverage of Melat Kiros, which erased her antisemitism
“A person is dead. A family is shattered; multiple families are shattered. And a community is devastated,” State Sen. Julie Gonzales, a progressive Democrat, told The Colorado Sun, responding to aspiring Colorado House representative Melat Kiros’s refusal to call the June 27, 2025, deadly firebomb attack on the Boulder Jewish community antisemitic.
“To respond in a manner that says ‘well, I don’t know what was in that perpetrator’s heart,’ I think missed a moment and an opportunity to talk about what it takes to heal in the midst of just exceptional pain and violence,” Gonzales had said of the then-hopeful Democratic candidate’s widely-panned remark dismissing the anti-Jewish hate crime in which 82-year-old Boulder resident Karen Diamond was fatally wounded.
Kiros wasn’t the only relevant party to “miss the moment.” (Incidentally, perpetrator Mohamed Soliman, who reportedly shouted “Free Palestine” during the attack, wasn’t very mysterious about his intentions; he openly stated that he wished to target a “Zionist group.”)
The Associated Press boasts that it’s the “definitive source for independent journalism from every corner of the globe.” But AP’s July 1 coverage of Kiros’s victory in the state primaries is the latest instance in which the news agency proved itself the definitive sanitizer of global antisemitism.
Read the rest of CAMERA’s Op-Ed at The Jerusalem Post.