NPR has not stopped its journalistic habit of downplaying Jewish suffering and endangerment, even after Public Editor Kelly McBride faulted her outlet earlier this month for failing to provide a platform for the intended victims of an attempt to blow up a Michigan synagogue. NPR did travel to the terrorist’s hometown in Lebanon for a sympathetic story. A story posted this Sunday from national correspondent Adrian Florido, “Alleged Colorado attacker’s family released after nearly a year in detention,” has a similarly shaped hole at its heart. The second paragraph attempted to explain why a family of five from Egypt had been held in ICE detention for 10 months before being repatriated (before a judge intervened). But there was a big piece missing, at least initially. ICE had been trying to expel them ever since El Gamal's husband, in a high profile case in June 2025, was charged with attempted murder for allegedly throwing Molotov cocktails at Colorado protesters who'd gathered in support of Israeli hostages in Gaza – an attack his family said it knew nothing about. It wasn’t just “attempted murder” in Boulder. Weeks afterward, an 82-year-old woman died of injuries suffered in the attack, resulting in Mohammed Soliman being charged with first-degree murder. There was little emphasis on the fact that this supposedly sympathetic family (Hayam El Gamal and her five children) have been residing in the country on expired tourist visas, the parents having tried and failed to apply for political asylum, thus keeping her children traumatized under supposedly harsh detention conditions. Though they are free to go home to Egypt, the mother has refused voluntary deportation and has applied again for political asylum. Back home in Colorado on Saturday, two days after their release, El Gamal and her children reported to an ICE office for a required check-in. There, ICE detained them again, told them they were being deported to Egypt, and rushed them onto a plane, their lawyers said. "They were horrified," one of their lawyers, Chris Godshall-Bennett, said. Florido, tasked with “covering race and identity in America” and an alum of NPR’s race-based Code Switch podcast, failed to flesh out the outrage of a family of an accused terrorist demanding to stay in the United States, instead taking the media’s typical heart-tugging route, posting a drawing by one of El Gamal’s kids above the caption, “A drawing by one of the El Gamal children, who are currently in ICE detention.” Florido worked hard to make the family sympathetic. After the attack, Soliman was charged with federal hate crimes and state attempted murder charges. He remains in custody. The Trump administration said it would investigate whether his family knew anything about his alleged plans for the attack. But El Gamal was never charged with any crimes related to it. Nor were any of their five children, who range in age from 5 to 18. El Gamal has since divorced Soliman, and the family submitted a second asylum application while in detention. In a recent interview from the Texas detention center before they were ordered released, El Gamal's oldest daughter, Habiba, described to NPR how her mother's health had deteriorated and the entire family's growing desperation over their 10 months in custody. She called herself "completely broken."…. On late Monday afternoon, the day after the original version was posted, this “clarification,” which should have been featured high in the story, was tacked on the end: Clarification: While Mohammad Soliman was initially charged with attempted first-degree murder that charge was changed to first degree murder after Karen Diamond, one of the victims of his alleged June 2025 attack, died of her wounds.