Synagogue in London that was sold to Muslim mosque falls victim to arson

In the past month, a synagogue was sold in London to a Muslim group, or was going to be. Now, it looks like that same synagogue was set on fire:

Counter-terrorism police are investigating a suspected arson attack at a former synagogue.

The fire was reported at 05:16 BST on Tuesday at the former East London Central Synagogue building in Whitechapel.

The Met said initial CCTV footage indicated the fire was started deliberately.

The suspected arson follows a series of attacks and attempted attacks on the Jewish community in recent weeks. [...]

Hamzah, who lives near the former synagogue - which he believes is being turned into a mosque - said: "I came out this morning and saw it was all blocked off... I heard there was a firebomb on the synagogue."

He added that he did not know why someone would do that. [...]

The former synagogue was due to be sold at auction earlier this year, with a separate bid by a Muslim group to buy the building and convert it into a mosque and community centre.

If it was torched by Muslim arsonists, that's definitely quite an irony. As noted here, the former synagogue is on Nelson Street, so it looks like the same one fell victim to the Religion of Peace its former management was going to sell to, in a pure act of dhimmitude. While it's definitely bad it was torched, I still can't comprehend why it was going to be sold to a mosque movement but not to a Hindu temple movement, in example. Seriously, just because Hinduism and Shintoism may not be monotheistic religions, does that make it wrong to sell to them? Of course not. Now, an oxymoron took place, and the sadness is only furthered.

Turkey now has missiles that can reach long ranges

It turns out that Iran's not the only Islamic regime that's had ballistic missiles being built. Turkey's also building them, and put an ICBM on display just recently:

Turkey's Ministry of National Defense research and development center unveiled the Yildirimhan intercontinental ballistic missile at the SAHA 2026 (Turkey's international defense and aerospace exhibition) expo, marking a public debut for one of Ankara's most advanced long-range missile systems.

According to the defense ministry, the missile can reach Mach 25 and has a declared range of 6,000 kilometers (3,728 miles). It uses liquid nitrogen tetroxide as fuel and is powered by four rocket propulsion engines.

It's entirely possible such devices could reach north America as much as Europe and Israel, if nothing's done about it. So we have to hope Donald Trump makes this an issue. Also, during Trump's first term of office, Turkey was misbehaving already.

Haredi extremists in Tzfat cause anger by demanding local mall remove bikini ads

In the nothern city of Tzfat, another outrage was caused when the wife of a local Haredi rabbi did exactly what her ultra-Orthodox overlords would want, promoting anti-sex hysteria in the post-October 7, 2023 era:

Haredi leaders in Tiberias are calling for a boycott of the city’s mall over large ads that show women wearing immodest clothing such as bikinis, the latest such controversy to erupt in a city with a growing ultra-Orthodox population.

That demand has led to backlash from the northern city’s deputy mayor, and has sparked a threat from secular residents of the city to stop patronizing the mall, called Big Fashion Danilof, if it caves to the Haredi leaders’ demands.

In a video that has circulated online, Leah Kook, wife of one of the city’s most prominent spiritual leaders, Rabbi Dov Kook, called the ads an insult to the city’s majority religious population.

The ultra-Orthodox population in Tiberias has increased to about 25 percent of the city in recent years, raising tensions over its character and way of life, according to the Walla outlet.

“They enter the mall, they see naked women as big as screens,” she said in a pained voice. She claimed that after speaking to a manager at the mall, nine of 12 such ads were taken down, but three remained, including one belonging to the clothing chain Castro.

Photos of the Castro store published in Hebrew media show a floor-to-ceiling ad displaying a woman wearing a bikini.

Kook called on residents to boycott the store.

“My loves, we’re boycotting them,” she said. “Don’t go into the mall.”

I think it'd be far better they don't. But that said, if she's going to be that disgustingly hysterical to cause a moral panic, then SHE should wear a bikini. No kidding. A woman who even has the gall to cover her hair as though she's to blame if men she's not married to would ask her out on a date.

Ultra-Orthodox parties are part of the municipal coalition led by Mayor Yossi Naba’a, who was elected in 2024 with their backing. A former mayor, Ron Cobi, who had run unsuccessfully to regain the position, had warned of the rising influence of the ultra-Orthodox over the city.

“Unless I’m elected, Tiberias will become the next Bnei Brak,” Cobi told The Times of Israel in 2023, referring to the heavily Haredi Tel Aviv suburb.

Following the call for a boycott, Deputy Mayor Aviv Yitzhak and another member of his party condemned the call and urged the public to continue visiting the mall.

“Especially these days, when business owners are struggling to survive after a prolonged period of war and we public officials are working to assist them, it is unacceptable to issue a statement that causes direct harm to the livelihoods of so many business owners and families,” their party said in a statement.

According to a Facebook page that carries local Tiberias news, secular residents of the city are threatening to boycott the mall if the ads are taken down.

This is not the first time Haredi and secular Israelis have clashed over a local mall. In the southern city of Arad earlier this year, a pair of Gur Hasidic businessmen bought the city’s mall, and there were claims that shop owners were pressured to take down pictures of women, and to have mannequins wear only modest clothing. The city government threatened to close down the mall over the new requirements.

If the Haredis have such a problem with women's sexuality, they should build their own mall. And all concerned should send an additional message by wearing skimpy clothes to the mall, and store managers who recognize why this is wrong should put similar imagery on their stores. And that's no joke.

It's also disgusting the rabbi's wife made what's basically a false statement about women in ads being "naked", when they were far from it, and bikinis don't literally expose genitals. Let's be clear. Of course nudity itself isn't always a good example. But to exaggerate it that much, and perpetuate the reduction of women to sex objects, that's utterly offensive, and it's exactly what the wife of the rabbi is doing, with the irony being she's possibly doing this on commercial video servers, where there could be lots more bikinis to see.

And again, this all desecrates the memory of October 7, 2023 victims. The Kook couple should both be asked to no longer enter the mall at all, nor any of their flock. It'd be better to go bankrupt than service their ilk, who likely did nothing to help in the war effort against Hamas. Must I point out that what Kook did was exactly what the Hamas/Islamofascists would want? And that her whole rant actually mirrors left-wing feminist blabber, including the whole ludicrous notion a woman should be ashamed of her body?

Update: since we're on the subject, here's also a troubling report about a Haredi beauty salon owner who implied she'd rather her son die than become secular:

Throughout the conversation, Blau emphasized that she loves her children and would accept them regardless of their path. However, she also described the emotional distress she would feel if they chose to leave religious observance, saying, “if one of them becomes secular, every day, every moment, every hour, it would burn in my soul."

The exchange reached its most controversial point when Sherki suggested that the loss of a child would be more painful than their living a non-religious lifestyle. Blau responded, “I’m not sure."

Her remarks quickly circulated on social media, prompting strong and divided reactions from the public.

Later, Blau appeared on the Channel 12 studio broadcast, where her comments drew sharp criticism from journalist Josh Breiner, who described her statement as “outrageous" and said it was “impossible to even conduct a discussion about such a claim."

This chillingly echoes a case from earlier this year where some Haredi parents made it sound like they were okay with their child dying, rather than have him or her in a non-Haredi daycare center. As a result, one must wonder if some ultra-Orthodox really do care about life, and whether they're proud of being Jewish/Israeli or not.

The PLO still poses a very severe threat

News recently published and brought before the Knesset reveals the PLO's built up a very large military that can pose a severe threat to Israeli citizens:

Since the October 7th Massacre, many have been warning of a much worse scenario in Judea and Samaria, with battalions of armed Palestinian Authority terrorists storming not only the communities in the area, but also towns and cities on the seam line and beyond.

A study by the Regavim movement examined the nature of the PA's armed forces based on the types of armament and training they receive. As expected, they are far beyond being a police force, but an army in every sense.

Moriah Michaeli, the director of the movement's research department, explains the findings in an interview with Arutz Sheva-Israel National News. She stresses that the reality in communities such as Ofra and Beit El is no more dangerous than that in Kfar Saba or Be'er Sheva, and even vice versa, for if we just listen to remarks made by Palestinian Arabs, we will discover that their calls are to return to Acre, Haifa, and Ashdod.

"Part of the study was to listen to what they say, and they say that they want to reach Haifa and Acre. The PA forces publish songs every Friday, and every Friday they are dedicated to one of the cities. They aren't about Ariel or Ma'ale Adumim, but rather Jaffa, Acre, Haifa, Be'er Sheva, and Jerusalem. They plan to get there. That's what they will do on D-day. They aim to reach Tel Aviv," she says, and notes that that is the reason the forces practice diving. There is no sea in Judea and Samaria, and the only reason for such exercises is their aspiration to reach the coastal cities.

Michaeli also shares that recently, PA security force members were caught attempting to smuggle weapons and ammunition between two police stations in Jenin, and diving bags were found on them. "What does Jenin have to do with diving bags? The answer is not that they plan on diving in the sewers to get between communities... but rather, they eye Tel Aviv, Jaffa, Haifa, and Acre."

Regarding the armed Palestinian Authority forces training, Michaeli notes the numerical data revealed in the study, according to which approximately 65,000 individuals are on the payroll, "Between 45,000 and 60,000 are armed operatives in the PA police, but this is not a police force, because the ratio of police is different. In the State of Israel, there is a ratio of three police officers for every thousand people. However, in the PA, there are between 13 and 24 officers per 1000 people. These are not police numbers; these are not forces to protect offices or to defend the Mukataa (PA headquarters) and direct traffic. These are military numbers."

More at the main article. Obviously, this is a serious issue, and dangerous. We must definitely hope security forces are on the alert, ready and willing to deal with this. The PLO's dictatorship should not have had to be established in the first place in the 1990s, and must be dismantled in order to prevent more tragedies from happening.

Iran still trying to attack gulf states with drones

Iran's Islamofascist tyrants are violating the alleged ceasefire by launching drones at the UAE, if anywhere:

Authorities in the United Arab Emirates' Fujairah ‌said on Monday that a fire broke out at the ⁠Fujairah Oil Industry Zone following what they described as a drone attack originating from Iran.

Civil defence teams ‌were ⁠deployed immediately to contain the blaze, Fujairah Media office ⁠said in a statement.

There was no immediate ⁠comment from Iran.

Of course not. But this makes clear they're still not willing to surrender voluntarily, and the worst part is that they'll probably start firing missiles again sooner or later.

Syrian woman converts to Judaism

An interesting story about a Syrian-born woman who came to understand a lot about Israel while living in France, and has since decided to become a Judaist convert. She also told them:

Rawan Osman has just completed another visit to Israel. It was her 20th trip since Oct. 7, 2023 — no small thing for a woman born in Syria, raised for 18 years in Lebanon’s eastern Bekaa Valley and now living in Germany. After years of building ties with Israel and Judaism, Osman is preparing for another unexpected step: She plans to convert to Judaism and immigrate to Israel. [...]

The issue of alcohol sales has recently returned to the headlines in Syria. The government of Ahmed al-Sharaa decided in March to ban alcohol service in restaurants and nightclubs in Damascus and limit sales to several Christian neighborhoods. Even there, alcohol may be sold only in sealed containers and by licensed stores. The restrictions sparked public criticism, while the government said they were intended to impose order.

“It’s ridiculous,” Osman said. “Maybe the only good thing about the Assad regime was that it was secular. Everything else was terrible. The current regime is not as monstrous as the Assad regime, but it wants to take Syria back to the seventh century and is contributing to the Islamization of Syria. Syria is going through a dangerous process that must be stopped.

“From my point of view, and I consider myself Israeli today, al-Jolani is very dangerous. He is not good news for us, because we have thousands of jihadists on the border.”

It's fortunate somebody fully recognizes what's wrong with al-Jolani, and again, it's shameful the Trump administration would agree to recognize him as a leader. What's wrong with all the Christians/Druze/Yazidis who live in the area? How do they not qualify as potential leaders?

‘Israel did not start it’

In recent weeks — on Holocaust Remembrance Day, Memorial Day and Independence Day — Osman posted content to her Instagram account as if she had grown up in Israel. She met a Holocaust survivor and documented Memorial Day events at the military cemetery on Mount Herzl.

Her connection to Israel began in France.

“When I moved there to study wine, I started the first part of my studies in Strasbourg. The place where I lived was in the Jewish Quarter, near the Great Synagogue of Peace. That was the first time I experienced Jews,” she said. “It opened my eyes because I had always imagined Jews as the enemy, as a terrible, problematic, aggressive people.”

That impression, she said, collapsed when she lived among Jews.

“They were nice to me,” Osman said. “In France, my point of view changed. I understood that the hostility that leads to wars was not started by Israel, but by the Arab world, which rejects the very existence of Israel. That made me start reading and researching organizations like Hezbollah, the Islamic Republic in Iran and the armed Palestinian factions, and understand that they are aggressive and that they choose terrorism to make Jews leave the Middle East.”

Trying to understand how the Palestinian issue could be resolved — a conflict she sees as holding back Lebanon and other countries — Osman began studying Islam and Judaism in Germany. She said she had been an atheist. In Lebanon, she attended a French Catholic school but never believed in God, Jesus, Muhammad or the Quran.

“When I studied, I understood that some of the biggest problems that led to terrorism were caused by mistaken interpretations of certain texts, and it does not have to be that way,” she said. “When I studied Judaism, my life changed completely. I fell in love with Judaism. I understood that I am Jewish. I felt that I knew the language, that it was close to me.”

On this, the problem with the verses in the koran advocating violence is that they were meant for just that, and if the newspaper distorted that part of the subject, that's wrong.

Anyway, I appreciate that the lady decided to convert to Judaism, and seriously, when the cards are played right, it can provide sensible Europeans with a good resource in which to find confidence. I will decidedly also say that, if there's any Europeans who think far eastern religions like Hinduism and Shintoism have positive values, I'm welcome to their trying those out as well, just to show that if a specific religion builds on positivity, I'm okay with competition.

Some companies that were donating to SPLC will stop after indictment

After the SPLC was indicted for fraud, and collaborating with the very creepy movements they claimed to oppose, some donors will now wisely be ceasing their grants:

The federal indictment against the Southern Poverty Law Center, which accuses the SPLC of wire fraud and bank fraud for funding members of the very white supremacist groups it claims to dismantle, has led some financial institutions to block grants to the group.

After Fidelity Investments and Vanguard Financial announced they would stop issuing grants to the SPLC due to the indictment, The Daily Signal reached out to 15 companies on the Fortune 1000 whose (in some cases independent) foundations sent the SPLC more than $10,000 since 2020.

Two of these companies have followed Fidelity’s lead in stating that the SPLC will not be eligible to receive grants through donor-advised funds due to the federal indictment.

It's about time. What was so great about the SPLC to begin with anyway? Any such movement that's going to almost completely target conservatives is cause for concern and suspicion. Now, the real story can be known.

London police acknowledge stabbing in Golders Green was terrorist attack

For once, the UK police admitted what appears to be a jihadist attack in London was an act of terrorism:

A 45-year-old man was arrested on suspicion of attempted murder after allegedly running amok in a prominent London Jewish neighbourhood, stabbing two men, in what police are now calling a terrorist incident.

Two men were rushed to hospital on Wednesday morning after being stabbed by a knifeman in the Golders Green area of North London. Both victims were seriously injured but are in stable condition.

The first attack took place outside the Hager’s Shul synagogue, where a 34-year-old Jewish man who had just walked out of the building was set upon and repeatedly stabbed. Security footage from outside the synagogue shows the moment the assailant affects casually walking along the street before suddenly lunging at a man in the process of adjusting his hat, giving the victim no time to react or protect himself.

Shortly after, it is said the assailant struck again further up the road, stabbing a 76-year-old man. Coincidentally, walking between the locations of the two attacks took the assailant past the front doors of the North London Hatzola, a Jewish ambulance charity, which was the site of an antisemitic arson attack last month.

After the two stabbings, the alleged suspect then clashed with Shomrim — a Jewish community security charity active in north London — and police before being arrested. Footage from the scene of the arrest, itself just 300 yards away from where the Hatzolah ambulances were burnt out in March, officers can be seen running with the suspect away from the North Circular road, and employing their ‘tazer’ stun-guns.

Eventually the suspect, an apparently robustly-built African-heritage male wearing light coloured clothes under a navy blue jacket, falls, and is kicked in the head by an officer several times as he resists arrest. A Shomrim volunteer can be seen sitting on the suspect’s legs as officers wrestle the man into cuffs.

The Metropolitan Police said in a statement that “The suspect also attempted to stab police officers, and was Tasered before being arrested. No officers were injured.”

Counter terror police quickly took over investigation into the case, and shortly afterwards it was declared a suspected terrorist incident.

One of the worst things about these incidents is that bans on gun ownership in Britain remain in effect, and even the Israeli government expects the UK's to deal with everything. If there is something they should be dealing with, it's deporting Islamofascists and to stop letting them into the country on a whim. But they won't, and it doesn't sound like the Israeli government called for them to do that either. So how does anybody expect to solve the crisis? It also clearly doesn't help that the former management of a synagogue elsewhere in London sold it to a Muslim group, and that some Jewish "leaders" have repeatedly retained contact with Islamists at - but not limited to - the expense of their own Jewish congregations. Are they going to make necessary changes or not?

Actor from 1990's Dances With Wolves film gets life imprisonment for sexual assault

Nathan Chasing Horse, onetime actor from Kevin Costner's Dances With Wolves film adaptation from 1990, has been jailed for life for sexual violence:

A Nevada judge sentenced “Dances With Wolves” actor Nathan Chasing Horse on Monday to life in prison for sexually assaulting Indigenous women and girls.

A jury had previously convicted him of 13 charges, mostly related to sexual assault of three women.

Accusers and their families told Judge Jessica Peterson they continue to suffer from the trauma caused by Chasing Horse, 49, and struggle with their faith after he exploited his position as a spiritual leader.

“There is no way to get back the youth, the childhood loss, my first time, my first kiss, the graduation I never got to have,” said Corena Leone-LaCroix, who was 14 when Chasing Horse assaulted her. “The life that little girl could have lived has been taken from me forever.”

The Associated Press typically does not use the name of alleged sexual assault victims unless they come forward publicly, as Leone-LaCroix has.

It'll be very difficult now to watch the adaptation of the novel Dances With Wolves was based upon. Perhaps that's why it pays more to read the original book instead?

Haredi anti-war protestors commit breaking and entering, plus trespassing, at military commander's home

Some ultra-Orthodox criminals, who only wish to make it easier for Islamofascism to destroy the country, broke into the home of an army commander:

Protesters from the Jerusalem Faction broke into the yard of Brig. Gen. Yuval Yamin, head of the Military Police, on Tuesday evening in protest of the arrest of draft evaders.

Police forces were called to the scene and began clashing with the protesters, making arrests.

The IDF stated: “A short time ago, a report was received regarding a deliberate break-in to the home of the head of the Military Police, Brig. Gen. Yuval Yamin, while his family was inside. Security forces were dispatched to the scene and are working to locate the suspects."

IDF Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Eyal Zamir condemned the incident. “I strongly condemn this attack. Harm to members of the security forces and their families constitutes the crossing of a dangerous red line.

I fully back the head of the Military Police in the dedicated fulfillment of his duties. This is a serious incident, and decisive action is required by all law enforcement and security authorities in order to bring those involved to justice," Zamir said.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu added, "I strongly condemn the violent attack against the head of the Military Police."

Once again, we have some 5th column monsters committing serious crimes and drawing attention away from more important issues. Some could even wonder if these same extremists will even one day convert to Islam as well. That's why those who were arrested have to be sent to a psychology expert for deprogramming, or else more of this will happen.

Update: here's more, telling how Bnei Brak continues to be a hotbed of obscenities:

Defense Minister Israel Katz decried the protestors as “a group of violent criminals who must be brought to justice with the utmost severity.”

He condemned the break-in, noting that Yamin’s family members were home at the time of the incident. Katz then urged law enforcement to “act decisively, quickly, and with all the tools at their disposal” to locate and hold responsible the suspects. [...]

Protesters in the Bnei Brak area also set fire to a dumpster and then threw rocks at the firefighters who came to extinguish it, Israel's Fire and Rescue Authority said on Tuesday.

Over the course of the protest, Highway 4 was blocked to traffic in both directions, and Israeli media reported several altercations between protesters and police officers.

Bnei Brak council member Yaakov Vider denounced the protesters and said that law enforcement was behaving laxly towards them.

"Once again, a marginal extremist fringe is blocking Bnei Brak and Gush Dan, paralyzing the lives of hundreds of thousands of citizens and primarily harming the vulnerable population - seniors, the ill, children, and public transport users," he wrote in a post on X/Twitter.

"Instead of preventing the criminality that harms innocent citizens, law enforcement authorities are enabling it and even making sure to block the roads in advance for their honor," he added.

A valid complaint can indeed be made against authorities who do nothing to anticipate these atrocities, perhaps because a leftist mindset gets in the way?

Update 2: here's some photos of one of these blockades.

2 failed premiers who precipitated October 7, 2023 join forces again

Daniel Greenfield addresses the reteaming of Naftali Bennett and Yair Lapid, who both have some responsibilities to shoulder for bringing about October 7, 2023, which most local leftist press outlets won't clearly admit:

The Israeli Left, which controls the media, judiciary and the cultural opinion shapers in that country, obsessively hates Netanyahu, not because of anything the generally mild-mannered and moderate prime minister has actually done (limited market reforms, refusing to make completely excessive commitments when pursuing dead end negotiations with terrorists) but because he symbolizes their inability to take and retain power.

That’s something the Left did to itself by successively alienating every immigrant group, Holocaust survivors, Middle Eastern Jewish refugees, Russian Jews, with their arrogant abuses.

The Israeli Left is unable to win elections outright and Clinton and Epstein pal Ehud Barak remains the last remnant of a time when the Left could win an election (with a lot of help from Bill Clinton.)

Israelis (outside Tel Aviv and a few of the ritzy suburbs) hate the Left so much that it can only hope to win through a coalition of new fake ‘third way’ parties, along with the usual Muslim Brotherhood parties.

The fake ‘third way’ parties usually involve a retired celebrity general, in this case Yashar with Gadi Eisenkot, who stand for absolutely nothing except making the most of their 15 minutes, and some fake reformist third party promising to use ‘common sense’ to fix things which actually carrying out the left’s program.

In this case, it’s a comeback coalition for political losers Yair Lapid and Naftali Bennett. Lapid was a vapid nepo baby celebrity TV show host and Bennett, formerly the post-Netanyahu hope on the right, sold out to careerism so badly that he previously allied with Lapid in an alternating prime ministership that turned over gas fields to Hezbollah and allowed Hamas terrorists disguised as ‘workers’ to roam Israel.

The duo get much of the actual credit for Oct 7 though the media would never dare suggest such a thing since Bennett and Lapid are the only real hope of the Left reclaiming power.

Bennett has shed his ‘right wing’ credentials and is now running as a Silicon Valley style technocrat.

Which was actually rather obvious for years now. Worst, what if the twosome actually do end up winning the election? If they do, it'll be awful.