A Hamas-supporting “domestic terrorist” has been sentenced to more than 19 years in prison for firebombing a University of California campus and hurling lit Molotov cocktails at a federal courthouse.
Casey Goonan, 35, was sentenced earlier this week over the spate of Hamas-inspired attacks he unleashed at the University of California, Berkeley, and a federal building in Oakland in June last year.
Goonan pleaded guilty in January to maliciously damaging or destroying property — admitting he carried out the shocking attacks to back Palestine and inspired by Hamas’ Oct. 7 terror attacks.
“This domestic terrorist could have taken untold lives had his violent attacks been more successful, and using the evils of Hamas as motivation speaks to his depravity,” Attorney General Pamela Bondi said.
The anti-Israel agitator and academic was caught on camera stashing a bag filled with six explosives under a marked University of California Police Department patrol car parked near the UC Berkeley campus.
He then lit the bag on fire and fled as the car went up in flames, a criminal complaint stated.
Just days later, he then tried to firebomb the Ronald V. Dellums Federal Building and Courthouse in Oakland, court filings show.
He initially tried to break the building’s windows with rocks so he could toss the Molotov cocktails but was thwarted by security.
Instead, he threw the explosives in a planter near the side of building and lit them on fire.
Goonan also set a spate of other fires on the UC Berkeley campus around that time as he called on others to carry out similar anti-Israel attacks, prosecutors said.
“He will have many long years in prison to think about his crimes, and the Department of Justice will continue prosecuting political violence across America,” Bondi said.
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