The suspect in the Colorado firebomb attack, Mohamed Sabry Soliman, “should not have been in our country to begin with,” Rep. Brandon Gill, R-Texas, told Newsmax on Monday.

Soliman, 45, was booked on Monday into the Boulder County jail north of Denver and charged with a federal hate crime. Police say he threw a makeshift flamethrower into a group that had assembled to raise attention to Israelis held hostage in the Gaza Strip.

“We’ve seen a rise of antisemitism in this country. We’ve seen college protests where you have students shouting, ‘From the river to the sea. Palestine will be free.’ You’ve seen college campuses have done virtually nothing to stop it until we force them to,” Gill said on “Newsline.”

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