Karen Diamond Was Murdered. Say Why.
She survived the Holocaust. She was murdered in 2025. Politicians won’t name the hate that did it.
Karen Diamond was 82 years old.
She was a Holocaust survivor.
A grandmother.
A peace marcher.
Karen Diamond was firebombed and murdered in Boulder by a man shouting “Free Palestine,” who told police he wanted to “kill all Zionist people.”
Karen wasn’t on the front lines of a battlefield.
She was holding a sign, demanding the return of 50 hostages still held by Hamas.
Karen Diamond was murdered for being Jewish.
You can’t mourn Karen Diamond while refusing to condemn the words that helped kill her.
You can’t mourn the victims of antisemitic violence while refusing to name the hate that fuels it.
Yet, New York City Democratic Party Nominee Zohran Mamdani won’t denounce the phrase “Globalize the Intifada.”
He says, “That’s not the language that I use.”
He insists it’s misunderstood.
He compares it to the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising.
This isn’t theoretical. This is real.
Jewish lives are being targeted. Jewish people are being attacked.
Barbara Steinmetz, 88, another Holocaust survivor, was burned.
Fifteen Jews were attacked in Colorado.
Jews were murdered in Washington.
All under the same slogan Mamdani refuses to condemn.
Mr. Mamdani, silence is a deadly language.
You say you want to “eradicate hatred”?
Start by naming it.
Start by saying five simple words:
“Globalize the Intifada is antisemitic.”
If you can’t say that, don’t pretend to mourn us.
Because your silence is deafening.
Your platitudes are empty.
Let’s talk about history, since you invoked it.
The Jews of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising were not fighting for liberation.
It was a final act of defiance by those already marked for death.
From April to May 1943, 700 Jewish fighters, mostly starving teenagers with pistols and homemade bombs, stood against 2,000 Nazis with tanks and flamethrowers.
They weren’t protesting.
They weren’t calling for revolution.
They were resisting liquidation.
265,000 Jews had already been deported to Treblinka.
7,000 were killed during the uprising.
42,000 were sent to camps afterward.
Most were murdered.
Those who survived the fighting were sent to Treblinka and gassed.
It ended with the destruction of the ghetto, the Great Synagogue, and almost every Jew left behind.
Before they died, they buried their truth in milk cans because they knew they wouldn’t live to tell it.
It was faith in history when there was nothing else left.
Less than 100 years later, we watch their truth denied in real time.
To compare the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising to “Globalize the Intifada,” a slogan now linked to the firebombing of Jewish women, is obscene.
It’s a desecration of Holocaust memory.
It is deeply offensive to survivors.
The Warsaw Ghetto was a grave.
Don’t twist it into a slogan.
Don’t weaponize our dead to excuse your hate.
If we allow Holocaust memory to be twisted into a justification for modern antisemitic violence, we have failed those who died in the ghetto.
Say their names.
This isn’t just about Karen Diamond.
It’s about every Jew who’s been told we’re imagining it.
It’s about every politician who refuses to say five words.
Say the truth.
“Globalize the Intifada” is antisemitic.
Stop erasing our history to justify your hatred.
May her memory be a blessing and a call to moral courage.
