Muslim rapist given 21 years for assault on mother in Gedera

A Muslim rapist who attacked a mother in Gedera while her children were in the house has been given 21 years in prison and a huge fine:

The Central District Court in Lod sentenced Barkat Abu Issa to 21 years in prison on Wednesday for breaking into a woman’s Gedera home, binding and raping her while her three young children were inside.

Abu Issa, 25, was convicted following a trial of rape under aggravated circumstances, burglary of a residential building, and abuse of a minor over the February 2023 attack.

The court also ordered him to pay NIS 200,000 in compensation, comprising NIS 150,000 to the woman and NIS 50,000 to her son, who was two years old at the time of the attack.

The panel directly addressed the woman at the end of its ruling, saying that she had suffered an unbearable and life-altering assault and continued to contend with its effects on her and her children.

What the monster did was an utterly perverse act, and his sentence is not enough. He should be thrown in an isolated dungeon for centuries.

Haredi journalist was arrested for child porn

The newspaper the offender in question works for is not made public any more than his name, but anyway, here's what the case is about:

A senior Haredi journalist has been arrested on suspicion of possessing pedophilic content.

Police say they arrested the suspect, a 58-year-old man, this morning at his home in Kiryat Yearim, an ultra-Orthodox town west of Jerusalem.

Officers who searched his house seized his laptop and cellphone.

The suspect will be brought today to the Jerusalem Magistrate’s Court for an extension of his remand as investigators continue to probe the case, police add.

The suspect, who is not yet identified ahead of his hearing, is variably described in Hebrew media reports as the editor of, or a senior reporter at, a well-known newspaper in the ultra-Orthodox world.

Apart from privacy laws, why all the secrecy? Whoever the creep is, he and his newspaper should be boycotted into the ground. Yet another example of how the ultra-Orthodox world is not the saint they'd want everybody to think they are.

Haredi rioters attack soldiers of the same background

Another nasty encounter with Haredis hostile to presumably anybody not considered a leftist, and the guilty party was demonstrating in favor of those who vandalized a chief justice's house in Alon Shvut:

A demonstration in support of those involved in last month's riot outside the home of Israeli Supreme Court Deputy President Justice Noam Sohlberg was held in Jerusalem and ended in violence, during which three Haredi soldiers serving in the IDF's Netzah Yehuda Battalion were attacked.

The event began with a vehicle convoy from Beit Shemesh to Jerusalem, after which participants continued on foot to Shabbat Square. During the march, demonstrators carried signs opposing the enlistment of Haredim into the IDF, including one reading, "We will never serve in the enemy's army."

Participants also shouted slogans against police officers, and in several instances objects were thrown at them.

The three soldiers, who happened to pass through the area by chance, were assaulted by some of those attending the protest.

The march took place following the release of 63 haredi suspects who had been arrested in connection with last month's riot outside Justice Sohlberg's home in Alon Shvut.

According to the investigation, the rioters damaged Sohlberg's home and the family's vehicle. Windows were smashed, flower pots and planters were broken, and the entrance to the house was vandalized. Israeli flags bearing swastikas were also placed in the street.

Following the incident, Justice Sohlberg's wife, Meira Sohlberg, described what they found upon returning home.

"We are children of Holocaust survivors," she said. "Jews are hurting one another like this. Look at this destruction-a pogrom. What is this, Kristallnacht?"

That the thugs would even bring a desecrated flag to their repulsive riot was a most antisemitic act, and makes clear there's a crisis of 5th column self-haters in Israel's Haredi enclaves, some of which even allow PLO flags to be flown. That also speaks volumes.

One of the commentors to the article said:

Two comments are necessary regarding this article:

1. If it isn't clear to anyone up to now, it should be crystal clear now: the Chareidi community does not consider itself citizens of the State of Israel. (There are many that do, but the vocal, rioting ones certainly do not.)

2. I've said this before: According to Rashi: Just lifting a hand to hit a fellow Jew makes you a "Rasha," an evil person. That is the true Torah value expressed by one the giants of Torah. Of course, if you consider all the other Jews in Israel as the enemy, calling them Amalek, then this warping of Torah values lreads to rationalizing - falsely - that you can hit them. It's time for them to "change their tune" and join us in the real Torah world.

Another said:

I am charedi. I have one married son who served (reserves) for ten months in a combat unit in Gaza during the war and another two in Lebanon. I have another married son in Kollel. Both have families. My Kollel son learns (Torah) nightly with my reserves son. IMHO, the behavior of these so-called "charedim" (in costume) is against the Torah, is a chilul Hashem and is reprehensible.

But that's exactly why the Haredi lifestyle just isn't working anymore. If more would leave it, we'd be much better off.

Muslim invasion in Spanish Ceuta enclave leaves at least 67 dead

While some of these casualties of the latest Muslim "migrant" crisis around Spain's Ceuta enclave may be the invaders themselves, there do appear to sadly be innocent bystanders who were victims too:

The death toll in Spain’s Ceuta border crisis with Morocco has climbed to 67, the Spanish government said Saturday. They included some who drowned and some who were killed in a stampede to cross a breakwater barrier.

Spain announced it was installing a 500-meter-long containment barrier along the breakwater fence into the sea after between 50,000 and 60,000 migrants breached the tiny Spanish territory’s frontier between Thursday and Friday.

A handful of exhausted migrants who swam to Ceuta’s urban Tarajal beach Saturday morning were met by soldiers who escorted them back across the border. Spain’s interior ministry says the majority of those who entered the Spanish territory in North Africa have already returned to Morocco.

After days of chaos and streets packed with people who had hoped for a better life in Spain, residents of Ceuta woke up Saturday to an uneasy calm.

Even so, security for residents of the autonomous city of 84,000 remained bruised.

Well, Pedro Sanchez's disastrous policies have definitely done it again. If this reaches mainland Spain itself, it'll spell an absolute horror.

NYC prosecution fails again

Here's another example of how the legal system in New York City is letting criminal offenders off the hook, and not even filing hate crime charges against the lawbreaker where it could be necessary:

Local leadership in Brooklyn’s Crown Heights neighborhood expressed deep frustration on Thursday following the sentencing of a New Jersey man who repeatedly drove his vehicle into the international headquarters of Chabad-Lubavitch, arguing that the outcome minimizes the gravity of the assault, JNS reported.

Dan Sohail, 36, of Carteret, New Jersey, entered a guilty plea in May to a single federal charge of damaging religious property after directing his Honda Accord down an access ramp leading to the handicapped-accessible entrance at 770 Eastern Parkway on Jan. 28.

Prior to impact, Sohail removed protective security barriers. He then repeatedly drove into the synagogue's doors five times, backing up between each hit and forcing the entrance off its hinges. The incident resulted in no physical injuries.

On Wednesday, US District Judge Eric N. Vitaliano of the Eastern District of New York ordered a punishment of time served plus seven additional days, turning down a request from federal prosecutors for a 14-month prison sentence. With his impending release, Sohail will have spent slightly more than six months in federal custody.

Prior to driving into the structure, Sohail gestured to bystanders near the doors to clear the area. However, inside the building, roughly 2,000 worshippers and yeshivah students were assembled for Yud Shevat - a major observance on the Chabad calendar marking the anniversary of the passing of the sixth Lubavitcher Rebbe, Rabbi Yosef Yitzchak Schneersohn, and the succession of Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson.

Yaacov Behrman, speaking as a liaison for Chabad headquarters, observed that had people been leaving through that doorway, the attack could have produced mass casualties. Behrman expressed confusion over why federal officials chose not to file hate-crime charges. He maintained that intentionally targeting a synagogue and crashing a car into it while thousands were gathered inside constitutes an act of hate by definition, regardless of the perpetrator's internal state of mind.

Let's also not forget the "no bail" policy the prosecution service now run by the awful Alvin Bragg put in place at least as far back as the time Bill de Blasio was mayor. What happened of recent ties in perfectly with atrocities like that. NYC seems to have quite a few of the worst approaches to lawbreaking these days, and the rent control policies nobody seems interested in abandoning are just the icing on the cake. This sad case is yet another example of where NYC is also going under Zohran Mamdani today, and is bound to get worse soon.

Timothy Busfield whined about "cancellation" at his indictment trial

In this recent news about the disgraced Timothy Busfield's first trial where he was indicted for sexual abuse, he could only think to lament that he'd been "canceled", as if that wasn't expected following his crimes:

After major roles in "Thirtysomething" and "The West Wing," Timothy Busfield's career was waning at 69, but he was still a working actor and director.

Not anymore, according to his grand jury testimony exclusively obtained by USA TODAY from the district attorney's office in Albuquerque, New Mexico, through a public records request.

Busfield told the 12-member jury that he can no longer find work. His last hope, he said, was that the child sex abuse allegations against him would not also ruin his wife, actress Melissa Gilbert.

Unfortunately, she's ruined her reputation by sticking with him despite the severity of the accusations against him by several other victims, which includes actress Claudia Christian. Which could explain why Gilbert's not returning to the role she had on Hallmark's "When Calls the Heart", more on which anon. As for Busfield himself, he should be ashamed of himself if he was trying to get the jury to feel pity for him. Though his own use of the word "canceled", in reference to his career, suggests both he and Gilbert coordinated their own approaches to the legal system and the press. What's head-shaking about it is that in the past decade, leftists like them were pushing "cancel culture", and now that their own careers are in the trash bin, they have the gall to use it for their own situations? Sigh.

In this report, it's told Busfield became awkward when questioned by police:

Timothy Busfield willingly spoke to police while under investigation for alleged child s– abuse, but one interaction left a police officer questioning everything, Wonderwall.com can exclusively reveal. [...]

In grand jury testimony audio, the investigator on the case recalled speaking with Busfield. The actor, in his own testimony, confirmed he spoke with authorities and was read his rights.

The officer admitted he didn’t give Busfield the full “scope of the investigation.” At first, he wanted to just see if Busfield would discuss “the tickling.”

The actor, who faced a similar allegation in Minnesota in 1993, was accused of touching the private parts of two young boys on the set of The Cleaning Lady. The kids alleged to therapists, their parents, medical experts, and authorities that Busfield would tickle them and touch them inappropriately.

Before the officer offered that context about his investigation, Busfield allegedly did admit to the tickling.

“I asked Mr. Busfield if he had ever tickled these children and there’s been any tickling,” the officer said. “And at first he said, ‘I don’t recall these children.'”

The conversation then allegedly took a turn as the director “got very awkward.”

The officer claimed, “He said, ‘Well, it’s likely I engaged in playful interactions with them … with some children,'” he said.

Busfield’s alleged story corroborates boys’ claims

Further, Busfield confirmed some details about what the boys described.

The officer told the grand jury, “I asked him to describe the setting of (the children), where they were filming. I’m new to the film industry. I’ve never been an actor. I’ve never been filmed before. So, he described the bedroom setting. It’s a hospital setting with a bed-gurney, which was actually the setting consistent with Mr. Busfield was consistent with the setting the children disclosed in the forensic interview.”

The director allegedly used the tickling as a way to guide them. The officer added, “He said he would go in there and get them ready to film, and he would tickle them and get them pumped up for the next set.”

Director confirms he spent hours with the boys

Busfield’s reluctance to acknowledge that he knew the children was later challenged during the actor’s own testimony.

When a prosecutor asked about his statement to the police, he claimed he never said he didn’t know the boys and it would be “ridiculous” to assert otherwise. After all, they worked together on set for the show.

“I spent hour and hours and hours with the children,” he told the prosecutor. “Of course I knew the two boys.”

There was a clue Busfield was nervous or embarrassed in one of the earlier reports, and this additional info from the trial hearing certainly confirms something's terribly wrong. Busfield really is a disgrace.

Some film and TV viewers guessed the Hallmark TV channel fired Gilbert from her role on When Calls the Heart because of this whole scandal:

In her post, Gilbert noted that budget cuts were the reason her character wasn’t included in the upcoming episodes, which will air in 2027. But her followers suspected that Hallmark was putting some distance between itself and Gilbert due to her husband, actor Timothy Busfield. Earlier this year, authorities in New Mexico indicted Busfield on four counts of criminal sexual contact with a minor. He pleaded not guilty and denied all the charges against him, which stem from alleged incidents on the set of the Fox drama The Cleaning Lady.

“I don’t believe for one second that it’s ‘budget issues’; more likely the holier-than-thou Hallmark Channel trying to protect their precious image,” one person commented.

“Budget issues is code for ‘we don’t want to support you during a very difficult period in your family’s life,’” another person argued.

However, several people pointed out that the decision to part ways with Gilbert might be related to the news that former cast member Lori Loughlin would be returning to the show next season after a long absence. Loughlin herself was fired by Hallmark in 2019 due to her involvement in the college admissions scandal.

If Loughlin only committed monetary fraud, that's peanuts compared to what Busfield did, and what Gilbert's doing by extension, which is noted in the following:

One commenter on Instagram speculated that it was Gilbert’s vocal support of Busfield that was causing issues for the network.

“[M]ight have something to do with her attitude about it all as well,” they wrote. “I’ve watched the show from the beginning. This is the right decision for both parties as she seemed to be standing with her husband.”

So there are other people who realize Gilbert's actions are an embarrassment to her reputation, along with the TV channel's and studio's, and as a result, you can't be surprised if the producers didn't want to continue working with her. Though they really should have come clean and admitted they were parting ways with Gilbert based on where she's been going in her apologia for Busfield. To say it's budget issues when they could be rehiring Loughlin doesn't make much sense.

In any case, both Busfield and Gilbert's careers appear to be done, based on the severe crimes committed by the former, and the apologia issued by the latter.

Co-founder of the Federalist continues the Orweillian ignorance act

Perhaps it's not a shock, but Sean Davis, CEO and co-founder of the Federalist, has indicated he's against the war on Iran's tyrants, despite previous research telling there are Americans who believe Iran's Islamofascists should be brought down, and tries to frame it all as some kind of "neocon/never-Trump/RINO" conspiracy, all the while not willing to admit he actually represents such disgraceful movements:

It is inarguable that the war in Iran is a massive drag on Donald Trump’s numbers, as well as those of the Republican Party heading into November. This is largely driven by consistently high gas prices, which also drive up the price of everything else.

Trump obviously knows this, which is why he’s been searching for an off-ramp for months. He knows he was elected to get gas prices down and the economy in shape (which he did until the war jammed up the gears).

But a major problem for Trump’s presidency right now is that nearly everyone outside his inner circle pushing for this war — and this includes the entirety of so-called conservative pundits who never found a war they weren’t willing to make others fight and pay for — also hates Trump (and especially J.D. Vance) and sees the war’s negative effect on his popularity as a secondary benefit of the war they’ve been salivating over for decades. To them, his declining numbers are a feature, not a bug.

With the Iran war, the NeverTrump neocons have gotten everything they ever dreamed of — war (which they love), and a massive political quagmire for Trump that threatens to consume the rest of his presidency and destroy any future political chances of J.D. Vance and the entire MAGA/America First movement.

Boy, this guy sure is clever and cunning, trying to do what the British call "fobbing off" the blame on everyone else but himself, all the while pretending he's actually a Trump supporter himself, but in reality, chances are very high he's actually a Vance supporter for all the wrong reasons. Assuming he supposedly opposes having an Islamic caliphate established in Europe, what Davis is doing decidedly contradicts any claim he might make that he's against having Islamofascism conquer Europe. Seriously, I'm not convinced people like him are against the Religion of Peace at all. Period.

I sadly predicted the Federalist would not debate the points of the Tea Party Patriots' polling research, and Davis' bizarre propaganda screed certainly confirms that, more or less. The Federalist is once again proving they're a blight upon conservatism, and an insult to anybody who's against totalitarianism conquering the world. What if it turns out Davis has no genuine issues with NYC mayor Zohran Mamdani, or even communism? He also ignores very valid reasons why Iran's Islamofascist leaders should be taken down, and is practically undermining efforts to protect the USA in the long run. We can only hope the Federalist's losing audience they don't need over their disgraceful behavior, which again only obscures challenging polls that tell a different story than the ludicrous narrative they sadly want to follow.

There is a majority of Americans who want the war against Iran to continue

According to polling data commissioned by Tea Party Patriots, it turns out that, contrary to what even phony "conservatives" like those at the Federalist would have everyone think, many Americans do want the war on Iran to continue until its Islamofascist regime is defeated:

A recent survey has revealed that the majority of Americans support continuing the war in Iran. Sixty-two percent of surveyed general election voters agree with the statement “The United States must finish the job once and for all to protect the United States and our allies — which means ensuring that Iran can never obtain a nuclear weapon and can no longer threaten American lives” data from Tea Party Patriots Action found.

The poll also asserted that the numbers found in the survey should be a “reality check” for the media.

“72% of Americans — including 60% of Democrats — agree that Iran cannot be allowed to exert control over the Strait of Hormuz, which is consistent with President Trump’s policy,” Tea Party Patriots Action Chairman Jenny Beth Martin told Breitbart News.

Martin continued, “And 62% of Americans — including 56% of Independents — believe that we need to ‘finish the job’ in Iran. … There is no split in the conservative movement on this issue. … Conservatives are overwhelmingly sticking with President Trump and the American people as a whole agree with the president’s strategy.”

If the Federalist doesn't comment on these findings, that'll speak volumes about what they're really like. It's good to know there are realists in the USA now who recognize the threat Iran's regime poses if it isn't taken down entirely, and surely recognize that if a ground operation is what it inevitably takes to complete the job, just like in Iraq, it'll have to be done. So we must give the military all the backing they'll need in order to keep morale high, which helps tremendously in order to achieve vital results.

Haredi anti-army extremists were celebrating death of recruitment advocate

An ultra-Orthodox activist who tried to integrate Haredis into military service sadly passed away, and what a shock, there's Haredi extremists who're celebrating the death of an innocent man:

Following the death of Yaakov Aharon Farber, who was behind the Maalot Tzur initiative to integrate haredim in the IDF, extremist factors celebrated with several events and announcements.

Kugel, fruit, and drinks were handed out at yeshivas and study halls "in honor of his death." The refreshments were accompanied by a sign with a quote from Proverbs: "When the wicked perish, there are shouts of joy," noting that they were donated "in honor of the death of one of the leaders of the forced apostasy in our generation, Yaakov Farber, may the names of the wicked rot."

The "Kav Hahagana" (Defense Line), which is affiliated with the Jerusalem Faction, published an announcement, stating: "When the wicked perish, there are shouts of joy. The conscriptor who founded Maalot Tzur croaked an hour ago; from now on, he won't be able to draft haredim."

Farber, of blessed memory, passed away at 32, after years of fighting an illness. He led the Maalot Tzur initiative, which was designed to integrate haredim into military service while adapting the framework to their way of life. The program included, among othe

r features, service without military uniforms and participation by married men who were not studying in yeshiva and who maintained ongoing guidance from rabbis. It's utterly terrible when clans like those in focus do something most inappropriate, especially after October 7, 2023. The ultra-Orthodox clans' members should be ashamed of themselves. What the guy was doing was a positive example, and it's a shame he's gone now, much too young.

The problematic side of the cafe that's open on Shabbat

A discovery came up about Cafe Basimta, which has been open on Shabbat and harrassed by Haredi extremists, that now has some embarrassed, and for all we know, the Haredis may still go after it:

Jerusalem’s premier soccer team made an unusual announcement last week: It would give a new cafe free advertising on players’ uniforms for the coming season.

Cafe Basimta was facing harassment from haredi Orthodox protesters who wanted it to close on Shabbat, and Hapoel Jerusalem said it wanted to send the message that Jerusalem is “an open and diverse city, where there is room for everyone.”

But on Tuesday, Hapoel Jerusalem reversed course and retracted the offer, after learning via an inquiry from the Jewish Telegraphic Agency that Cafe Basimta is an official project of Jews for Jesus.

“Our original intention was simply to support a small business that was being denied its freedom of operation, and we still believe in that principle,” club spokesperson Matan Avrina told JTA. “However, we also realized that this specific story is more complex than we initially knew.”

For the secular Israelis who have flocked to Cafe Basimta in response to the protests, too, the revelation of the cafe’s ties to a Christian missionary organization is complicating what had seemed like a simple skirmish in the city’s culture war over businesses open on the Jewish day of rest.

Perhaps it's not that surprising a business like this could operate on Shabbat. That said, it's still no excuse for what the Haredi hoodlums were doing, and only makes for bad publicity. So the authorities should continue to make sure the Haredis just simply stay away and remain in their shoddy enclaves, because their behavior doesn't help, and is illegal.