Biography
Casey Robert Goonan, 34, of Oakland and Pleasant Hill CA, ignited six Molotov cocktails inside a UC Berkeley UCPD patrol vehicle on June 1, 2024, attempted to firebomb the Ronald V. Dellums Federal Building/U.S. Courthouse in Oakland on June 11, 2024, and set additional fires on the UCB campus June 1/13/16 2024. Blogged photos under Student Intifada banner; admitted inspiration from Hamas Oct 7, 2023 attack. DOJ called him a domestic terrorist. Pleaded guilty; 235 months federal prison. Casey Goonan is a Palestine-solidarity activist who on July 2, 2024 set fire to a University of California Police Department vehicle parked on the UC Berkeley campus, in protest of UC investments in companies tied to Israel and the role of campus police in suppressing pro-Palestinian protest during the war in Gaza. He claimed the action publicly. He was arrested by federal authorities and pleaded guilty in 2025 to federal arson and use of fire to commit a federal felony. He was sentenced to approximately seven years in federal prison with the federal terrorism enhancement applied — among the longest sentences imposed on a U.S. anti-war activist in the post-October 7 Palestine solidarity wave.
