An Aurora City councilmember blamed the Democratic Party for the firebombing attack last Sunday in Boulder on a group pressing for the release of remaining Hamas captives, calling the party is a “demonic cult.”

In a video posted a day after the attack, Danielle Jurinsky, a member of the Aurora City Council, accused prominent Jewish Colorado Democrats, including Gov. Jared Polis, Secretary of State Jena Griswold, Attorney General Phil Weiser and U.S. Sen. Michael Bennet, of making the Democratic Party their “religion.”

Jurinsky is Jewish. 

“Shame on you! You’re not Jewish, you’re a Democrat,” she said. “Nothing brings me to tears like this than watching Jews put their dedication to a demonic cult, the Democratic Party, which has made crime legal, murder legal, and rape legal,” she said. “You have better be on your knees praying to God for forgiveness for your behavior, because you’re not just anti-American, you yourselves are antisemitic.”  

The governor’s office called Jurinsky’s comments “disgusting.”

“Diminishing the Governor and other Jews because they happen to be Democratic is disgusting, and it’s this inflamed rhetoric we need to end, and end now,” the governor’s office said. “Only the perpetrator is responsible for the reprehensible terror attack that has shaken Boulder and the Colorado Jewish community and claiming otherwise is bizarre and nothing more than opportunistic dirty politics.”

On Sunday afternoon, 45-year-old Mohamed Sabry Soliman, an Egyptian national, threw Molotov cocktails at members of the organization Run for Their Lives, which hosts a weekly walk to press for the release of Israeli hostages taken by Hamas. The police said the attack injured 15 people. Soliman faces federal hate crime charges, as well as state-level attempted murder charges.

Griswold, Weiser, and Bennet have also released statements condemning the attack, with Weiser saying violence is never the answer. 

“Hate has no place in Colorado,” he said. “We all have the right to peaceably assemble and the freedom to speak our views. But these violent acts — which are becoming more frequent, brazen and closer to home — must stop and those who commit these horrific acts must be fully held to account.”