One year ago, on June 1, 2025 , a man walked up to a group of Jewish community members on Boulder's Pearl Street Mall and firebombed them. They were not soldiers. They were not politicians. They were friends and neighbors walking peacefully through their own community, calling attention to hostages kidnapped from Israel by Hamas on Oct. 7. They were doing what free people do in a free society—exercising their right to free speech. Karen Sorin Diamond , an 82-year-old mother and grandmother, did