Arson

Fifth man charged in March arson of Golders Green Hatzalah ambulances

The ambulance arsons came at the early edge of a wave of incidents that have put London Jews on edge and induced the city’s police force to step up their presence in Jewish communities.

An aerial view as fire services continue to monitor the scene after four Hatzola ambulances were set on fire overnight next to Machzike Hadath Synagogue, on March 23, 2026 in the Golders Green area of London, England.
Local community members talk with police officers from London's Metropolitan Police following a suspected antisemitic arson attack in Golders Green, London, March 23, 2026.

Suspect starts fire in Golders Green apartment building, residents extinguish

Traders scavenge clothes from debris burnt down by the fire at Toi market, a second hand clothing market, in Nairobi March 16, 2026. According to a police report, the fire was caused by an electricity fault that razed about 250 stalls of second hand clothes.

At least 15 students killed in overnight dormitory blaze in Kenyan girls' school

Police, Fire and Ambulance Emergency services, work at the site of an incident outside a Natwest Bank on Golders Green Road in north west London on May 8, 2026.

Second man charged with arson of former synagogue in London


Anti-Israel groups campaign for hunger striking alleged arsonist and UK vandal

Palestine Action member Tueta Hoxha, who was arrested for her alleged involvement in the violent August 2024 Filton factory attack, has been hunger striking for 28 days.

Oakland resident Casey Goonan placing a bag containing six Molotov cocktails under a University of California Police Department (UCPD) patrol car at UC Berkeley on June 1, 2024.

Burning Jerusalem will not bring the hostages home - editorial

Bring the abducted home through resolve, negotiation, and pressure on their captors. Keep Jerusalem safe while you fight for them. That is how a moral society behaves in a time of trial.

View of a car burned after a garbage bin was set on fire by protesters demanding the release of the hostages in Gaza, near the Prime Minister’s residence in Jerusalem, September 3, 2025.

Now Australia has ousted Iran's envoy - will the country actually tackle antisemitism? - editorial

The attacks organized by Iran were before June's 12-day war, so reflect the export of Tehran's strategy of targeting Jews abroad, a playbook it has used for decades.

 AUSTRALIAN PRIME Minister Anthony Albanese inspects the damage at the Adass Israel Synagogue in Melbourne, guided by Rabbi Moshe Khan, president of the Rabbinical Council of Victoria.

Australia slams Israeli claims on Iran envoy expulsion as 'complete nonsense'

This comes after Australia said that Iran sought to "disguise its involvement" in antisemitic attacks within the country last year.

Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese (R) speaks next to Foreign Affairs Minister Penny Wong (L) during a press conference at Parliament House in Canberra, Australia, August 11, 2025.

Con job or Iranian attacks? New revelations challenge theory on Sydney attacks - analysis

Will the ASIO or the Australian government explain where the con job ended and the IRGC plot began?

 Member of Parliament Josh Burns walks past the damaged Adass Israel Synagogue on December 10, 2024 in Melbourne, Australia.

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Lebanese army members place razor wires in Burj al-Muluk, near the southern Lebanese village of Kfar Kila, where Israeli forces remained on the ground after a deadline for their withdrawal passed as residents sought to return to homes in the border area, Lebanon January 26, 2025.

Spain arrests alleged arsonist linked to wildfires as a second firefighter dies

"Today we mourn the death of another member of the team fighting fires in Leon," Nicanor Sen, the national government's representative in Castile and Leon, wrote on X.

Firefighters work to extinguish a wildfire in the outskirts of Abejera de Tabara, Zamora, Spain, August 13, 2025

Rabbi and family safely escape fire at historic New Jersey synagogue

The four-alarm fire broke out at approximately 2:45 a.m. at Congregation Beth El Chabad. Rabbi Yitzchok Lerman, his wife, and four of their children were sleeping in an apartment inside the synagogue.

Rabbi Yitzchok Lerman, who survived with his family in the fire that completely destroyed Congregation Beth El synagogue, stands in front of the synagogue's ruins in Rutherford, New Jersey on August 8. (

Australian police arrest suspect in December arson attack on Melbourne synagogue

Giovanni Laulu, 21, of Melbourne, was arrested on Wednesday on suspicion that he had set fire to the Adass Israel Synagogue.

Congregants recover items from the Adass Israel Synagogue on December 06, 2024 in Melbourne, Australia.

'Someone tried to murder them': French Rabbi's house 'completely destroyed' in arson attack

While authorities continue to call it an arson attack, "no one wants to call it antisemitic," their daughter, Sarah Perets Lahiani, said.

 The front of the Rabbi's house after the arson attack.