Left-Wing ‘Terrorist’ Firebomber Miserably Fails To Win Soft Sentence From Bush-Appointed Judge

A Bush-appointed federal judge sentenced a firebomber inspired by Hamas terrorists to nearly 20 years in prison in California, plus restitution and supervised release.

Casey Robert Goonan received a terrorism enhancement to his sentence from Senior U.S. District Judge Jeffrey White for committing “a series of arsons and firebombings” at the University of California, Berkeley and an Oakland federal courthouse in June 2024, the Department of Justice (DOJ) announced Tuesday. Goonan, a PhD graduate, has admitted that the attacks were inspired by Hamas’s Oct. 7, 2023, massacre in Israel, pleading guilty in January to maliciously damaging or destroying property used in or affecting interstate commerce by means of fire or an explosive.

Goonan placed a bag of six incendiary devices called Molotov cocktails under a University of California Police Department (UCPD) patrol car near UC Berkeley’s campus on June 1, an incident caught on video, the DOJ said. On June 11, he threw rocks at a federal courthouse in the hope of throwing Molotov cocktails inside before federal agents stopped him. He then lit them ablaze at the side of the building.

Additionally, Goonan set three other fires on UC Berkeley’s campus throughout June, prosecutors said. He “called on others to attack property on Bay Area college campuses in support of Palestine,” according to the DOJ.

Goonan’s lawyer, Sarah Potter, did not respond to the