Three Radicals Arrested for Allegedly Damaging, Setting Fire to Israeli-Owned Factory in New Hampshire
The three girls said they belong to the group Palestine Action U.S., which has a mission to destroy Elbit Systems because it is, to them, the “Zionist war machine.”
Authorities arrested three people in connection to the damage and fire at the Elbit Systems, an Israeli-owned company, factory in Merrimack, New Hampshire.
They arrested:
- Sophie Marika Ross, 22, of Housatonic, Massachusetts
- Cala Mairead Walsh, 19, of Cambridge, Massachusetts
- Bridget Irene Shergalis, 27, of Dayville, Connecticut
Three radical anti-Israeli activists were arrested for setting fire to an Israeli-owned defense company's factory in New Hampshire this morning.
One of the activists had previously worked to map out Jewish preschools and other Jewish institutions in Boston. (1/2) pic.twitter.com/W596v0pcNU
— Gabriel Noronha (@GLNoronha) November 21, 2023
The three girls said they belong to the group Palestine Action U.S., which has a mission to destroy Elbit Systems because it is, to them, the “Zionist war machine.”
“We’re a direct-action network targeting Elbit Systems, their U.S. chapter specifically,” said Fergie Chambers, of Palestine Action U.S. “They are Israel’s largest weapons supplier. Eighty-five percent of the drones being used in Gaza right now are produced by this company. This location here in Merrimack, New Hampshire, produces display systems for fighter jets.”
The police received calls about an anti-Israel riot at the international defense electronics company’s factory before 8 AM ET. The fire department also arrived due to smoke coming from the roof:
Merrimack police said they received calls from employees at Elbit Systems, a defense contractor located at 220 Daniel Webster Highway, shortly before 8 a.m. saying that protestors were blocking the driveway and multiple people were believed to be on the roof of the building. Protesters have previously targeted Elbit Systems locations in Massachusetts and around the globe, alleging that the company is involved in Israel’s military campaign.
—
When they arrived at the scene, police said they encountered a number of protestors “blocking the driveway voicing support for Palestine.” Those protestors eventually moved out of the way and allowed police to access the property.
Officers said they met with security personnel and found that the front of the building had been spraypainted with red paint, windows had been smashed, and at least one fo the main lobby doors had been locked shut with a bicycle lock.
Three people were also reportedly on the roof. Police were able to access the roof and arrested the three people who were on top of the building without incident.
They were identified by police as Sophie Marika Ross, 22, of Housatonic, Massachusetts; Calla Mairead Walsh, 19, of Cambridge, Massachusetts; and Bridget Irene Shergalis, 27, of Dayville, Connecticut. They were each charged with riot, sabotage, criminal mischief, criminal trespass and disorderly conduct and are scheduled to be arraigned in Hillsborough County Superiot Court at 1 p.m. Tuesday.
The first investigation showed the smoke came from a device on one of the suspects.
Authorities also found “damage consisting of spraypainting, smashed skylights and damage to HVAC equipment.”
Cala Walsh has a long history of radicalism, embracing terrorists and targeting anything Jewish…even preschools.
Calla Walsh, featured in a 2021 @NYTimes profile, also has a long rap-sheet of harassing Jews, promoting communists, defending terrorists, etc etc (details in link)https://t.co/xhxnep4vAj pic.twitter.com/gQpjyeC6tb
— Gabriel Noronha (@GLNoronha) November 21, 2023
2-
Calla Walsh [Calla M. Walsh] has spread hatred of the police and America on Twitter, idolized a domestic terrorist and promoted a terrorist organization. Walsh has justified violence, promoted an anti-Semitic campaign and demonized Israel and Zionism.As of June 2022, Walsh…
— Ismary Bacallao (@IsmaryBacallao) May 3, 2023
4- Hatred of America
On October 20, 2021, Walsh tweeted a quote from an article in Hood Communist that said: “‘Understanding fascism as the inevitable systemic conclusion to Americanism is crucial…fascism was built into the American project from day one.’”Walsh’s tweet…
— Ismary Bacallao (@IsmaryBacallao) May 3, 2023
6- Promoting a Terrorist Organization
On March 21, 2022, Walsh tweeted an image of a 1969 poster by the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) that showed a masked man holding a rifle.The text said: “HE IS NOT A TERRORIST. HE IS A FREEDOM FIGHTER. THE POPULAR…
— Ismary Bacallao (@IsmaryBacallao) May 3, 2023
8- Promoting an Anti-Semitic Campaign
In June 2022, Walsh showed support multiple times for the Mapping Project campaign that targeted Jewish and pro-Israel institutions in Massachusetts, including schools, synagogues and businesses.Also that month, Walsh wrote [slide 11] on…
— Ismary Bacallao (@IsmaryBacallao) May 3, 2023
10- Demonizing Zionism
On June 10, 2022, Walsh tweeted: “…defending Zionism is defending and actively advancing the genocide and apartheid of Palestine.”Zionism is the belief that Jews have the right to self-determination in their own national home, and the right to develop…
— Ismary Bacallao (@IsmaryBacallao) May 3, 2023
12- Supporting BDS
On June 18, 2022, Walsh posted [slide 50] to Instagram a screenshot of an AJ Arabic post that quoted Walsh as saying: “laws are neither principles nor morals. I do not care if boycotting Israel is a criminal act, especially since the indigineous rights…— Ismary Bacallao (@IsmaryBacallao) May 3, 2023
DONATE
Donations tax deductible
to the full extent allowed by law.
Comments
No mention of being charged with arson, which could and should bring in the Feds
FWIW, I read that the FBI is assisting the local police with the investigation.
Are they assisting the police or are they assisting the accused [given their ideology]? Also of import is who controls the prosecutor as the charges may disappear on political grounds. The lack of an arson charge is not encouraging.
Subotai Bahadur
No mention of being charged with arson
________________________________
isn’t setting fire to a structure that is or is very likely to be occupied attempted murder?
Not if your a lefty radical
Blm and AntiFa did it and there were no or very few arrests made. It all depends on who is in control at the time.
Trump was President in 2020 during the riots.
Not really a pertinent factoid.
When you loot or burn down the local QuickiMart or liquor store or police station it’s the local authorities who decide wether to interfere with the riot or prosecute after the fact.
Wray was in control of the FBI.
People like this should face loss of citizenship & expulsion.
Palestine Action should be classed as a terrorist group, then hammer them.
Not surprising when Dems like Tlaib are openly supporting Hamas FB page supporting genocide. Dems have gone beyond dog whistling terrorists, they embrace them.
Yes, those politocos are fanning flames, but the question not being asked is, “Who is paying for all this domestic terrorism?”
Transportation, paint, locks, organizations, etc. cost money. Snot nosed punks with va-jay-jays and fugly tats got no $$$.
Who is paying for all this domestic terrorism to mysteriously pop out of the void across this nation?
Mary,
Can we please stop calling adult Women ‘girls’? Same for adult Men being referred to as ‘boys’. It sets up a false picture of them as not having reached legal age of adulthood. That in turn influences the way some folks digest the story. The d/prog do this all the time by using underhanded linguistic choices to frame a narrative; 19 year olds referred to as ‘teenage’ to evoke sympathy.
Aided in this case by the 19yo looking rather young in that mugshot.
Not to mention male.
when “adult” females behave as spoilt infants, as these and their pals do, they oughtn;t be referred to as “women”. At best “females” would be satisfactory, but some other term such as “thugettes” might suffice.
they certainly are NOT comporting themselves as “women”
Charles Manson recruited women just as easily.
Can we please treat these people with the sentences they truly deserve?
But, it’s Massachusetts, so probably not. They’ll get probation or such, and be back out creating problems again, soon.
New Hampshire but I agree with you
Agreed, but what are the sentences they “truly deserve?”
Here is my list: 1) Jail time. Extensive jail time. Not only did they cause damage to the building, but they put police and fire personnel at risk to deal with their crimes.
2) Restitution. Every cent the company has to pay to fix their building, equipment, HVAC, etc., should be charged to the women. I would even argue that the cost of the first responders should be charged to them as well.
There is a difference between “protesting” and vandalism and destruction of other peoples’ goods and property. Make ’em pay in jail and dollars for what they did.
Remember the woman lawyer who firebombed a police car in NYC? She got a year in prison! I thought arson was a felony, so why did she get only a year?
I’m really hoping more red states will pass laws dropping the hammer on crossing state lines to partake in riots.
That way when all those Portlanders come rolling into your town, they’ll be cooling their heals for 10 years w/out parole for those dumpster fires.
Where are the charges for Domestic Terrorism?
Until these b@stards get put in jail, they will continue to break the law. They are not acting out; they are breaking the law. They should be prosecuted on the federal level for hate crimes. The end does NOT justify the means.
Since there are no consequences for them for breaking the law, they will continue to break the law.
If a conservative did anything like what these bolsheviks do (cf. abortion protests), he/she would be splashed all over the front page of the MSM and end up in the hoosegow.
The inequality of it all make me cry; this crap will lead to the downfall of our country.
Hopefully the DA is not bought or owned…seems a lot of them are these days.
The more things change the more they stay the same. Young commies committing violent acts. When do they start killing cops, and robbing banks? Obama’s “passing” acquaintance Bill Ayers wants to know.
The long anticipated nazi reboot of Charlie’s Angels.
Charlie’s Angles were attractive.
Now I’ve seen it all: ginger Palis, two out of three of them.
It’s like the IRA recruiting office is slacking off.
I don’t think any of them are actual Palis. They just want to join them without giving up all the privileges of being American.
Well, right, I was speaking in terms of allegiance, not descent.
Lets stop mucking about with ridiculous name calling. These white girls are racists, not radicals…so lets call them what they truly are, racists!!
But unlike when the left calls us racist, these girls really ARE racists. They are attacking people based solely on their race and nothing more.
Nineteen year old from Cambridge with a long history of terrorist activism. Wanna bet her parents are Harvard professors?
They all grew up spoiled little brats. It’s always the same. The one stereotype in this world that never seems to have an exception is that of the privileged communist. None of these radicals ever come from poor or working class backgrounds.
Red Diaper Babies to use the old term..
Red Doper Diaper Babies….
Lenin came from a comfortable bourgeoisie family. His brother was part of an assassination attempt on the Czar. His brother was offered a reprieve but would not renounce violence and so was executed. The working class had no time for frivolity.
Looks like she’s on the faculty career track herself.
Not with a C in precalc.
• Sophie Marika Ross, 22, of Housatonic, Massachusetts
• Cala Mairead Walsh, 19, of Cambridge, Massachusetts
• Bridget Irene Shergalis, 27, of Dayville, Connecticut
Aw, don’t they all look precious. But in the end all three are merely cannon fodder for the arab terrorists and their antisemitic agenda. Hoping prosecutors throw the book at them but won’t hold my breath.
Too stupid to realize that the Palestinians (Arabs) do not care for women thinking and use them as cattle. I agree that the three will get away with nothing but a slap on the wrist.
Arrest, prosecute, convict and INCARCERATE.
That’s what worked in America for decades.
So did hanging…this looks like attempted murder.
“at least one fo the main lobby doors had been locked shut with a bicycle lock…”
It appears to me that these perps actually wanted to be caught.
This makes them martyrs to the cause.
She’s Canadian, So why isn’t she on a no-enter list?
Because the3-letter Boys in Sunglasses were “watching”, as they like to do right before ignoring the threat. They watch but not preemptively arrest. Next we’ll find out they were all seeing a Pop-Psyche Quack and were “off their med’s”. Either that or they are just deranged.
Three Terrorists in 2023 echo The Weather Underground’s 1974 manifesto-pamphlet-book “Prairie Fire”:
Free .mobi and .epub download link to the eBook – Prairie Fire at archive.org:
https://tinyurl.com/28yecfxv
Always click the SHOW ALL tab to inspect and download specific files. There are typographical errors in all free copies of this book since optical scans of this book are..
imperfect.
Administrators at archive.org literally shadow-banned, censored and unidexed my two accounts at Internet Archive. The ban was only recently and partially lifted.
I am 1/4 Native American and come from a family of extremes, some millionaires, many in between and a branch of low life criminals.
Everyone has choices, with both natives and reject Jordanians, many make a long string of bad choices. Thye had options and failed to avail themselves of better choices. No sympathy, pale’s deserve far worse than what Israel are doing to them right now.
Point being, there’s always a victim class terrorists cling to. In 1974 it was native Americans, now the field is wide open.
Between these three (who look as one would expect after years of Leftist indoctrination) and Audrey Hale, I guess the “administration” and media will immediately recant the demented mantra that “white males are an existential threat to America” …right?
She’s on the tenure track now!
What “girls”??? Those criminals are grown women.
Huh??
Those protestors eventually moved out of the way and allowed police to access the property.
They EVENTUALLY moved out for the police
That right there is the problem!!!
Should have been arrested, cuffed and thrown in a paddy wagon
Unbelievable
They were part of a crime in progress
Should have been soundly thumped, dragged out of the way, THEN arrested, cuffed, and thrown in a paddy wagon.
They have chosen to fight for islamic terrorists.
Lock them up at gitmo.
Ismary Bacallao’s got it goin’ on. Thread reader stitches her Walsh tweets into a coherent narrative.
https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1653625992550678532.html
These creatures are not “radicals” nor are they hate criminals, protesters or activists. They are terrorists and should be charged (federally), convicted and sentenced as such.
They didn’t succeed in killing anyone this time, but that’s not for lack of trying. Throw the book at them. And make it a big, heavy one.
The problem with people like these three is that no matter the term of punishment, when it is served they will be even MORE radicalized. They are going to be bigger threats to society once they get out of jail if they even have to serve time. This is the Hobson’s choice that we face as a society. They should be executed in logical terms but we know that is not even in the cards. So what should the treatment be for radicals that hate America and will continue to destroy it as long as they live?
Give them a nice, new, bright white coat – the kind with the extra long sleeves. Then sign them up for free room and board in a padded room.
This is what earlier regimes used exile for.
But Australia’s all used up. There’s only Antarctica left.
We could give them a nice one-way ticket to Tehran. A few years there would take care of our problem; these women would either be reformed or dead.
Melei could turn the Falklands into a for-profit prison colony.
Everyone who blocked the police from the crime scene should be arrested as accessories.
Spoiled peas in a pod.
On the other hand: “Skydivers in California Form a Human Star of David in Solidarity With Israel, Against Antisemitism”
https://www.algemeiner.com/2023/11/21/skydivers-california-form-human-star-david-solidarity-israel-against-antisemitism/
When you don’t discipline your children you get this
So true, children left alone will become savages, it takes 20 years to civilize them.
Of course they’re white women. I bet they’re all single, too.
“Each new generation born is in effect an invasion of civilization by little barbarians, who must be civilized before it is too late..”
— Thomas Sowell (2007). “A Conflict of Visions: Ideological Origins of Political Struggles”, p.108, Hachette UK
I love Sowell.
Maybe the Stasi needs to spend more time working on things like this rather than door pulls at NASCAR.
Fifteen agents to investigate a “noose,” Fifteen.
These young ladies probably would not be able to answer the most basic questions about that for which they feel such passion.
The judge really should ask them to find Israel on a map.
And prior to sentencing, they should maybe be required to write the definition of “Useful Idiot” perhaps a dozen or more times
It really does make one wonder where the parents have been.
But also — Who the heck has time for this stuff?
“Who the heck has time for this stuff?”
From Karl Marx, who spent his adult life sponging off Fred Engels, living rent-free in his house, and even knocking up Fred’s maid and blaming it on Fred; to Bernie Sanders, who was tossed out on his ear by his commune comrades for slacking off on his duties… the shining lights of “the working man’s salvation” have themselves rarely worked a day in their lives. Witness the recent article here on LI examining why all this bullshit is happening at $100,000 year colleges instead of the community colleges where actual working people actually go for real education.
Only the privileged — or those being funded by the privileged — are interested in destructive revolution.
Is Walsh a citizen? If not, throw her in jail, and when her sentence is over, deport her to Canada where they can just deal with her. We don’t need to allow terrorists to continue to live here if they’re here on visas
Graduates of the Marxists Seminaries most likely
Those ugly women have no other social options and want to be war brides of hamas terrorists and passed around the tunnels of gaza?
I suspect that most of them (at least profess to) prefer women. Now, life among Islam would be a real epiphany for them.
What are the chances they spend a lot of time at the campus women’s center?
Ok, when I read the company name it seemed familiar. It is. It’s about 15 minutes from where I live.
These bimbos have F***ed Around and they are about to Find Out that New Hampshire doesn’t play games with idiots like them.
One of the charges was sabotage and that’s a minimum of one year. There are other charges they’re being hit with and the investigation is still ongoing.
Then there is the potential for Federal charges. It’s not unlikely that their hair will be grey by the time they get out.
They’re also lucky someone didn’t take a shot at them as well. (This is NH and we’re a constitutional carry state, unlike the ones these nitiwits came from)
Of course, if they did anything to actually damage Israel’s war effort, they could end up being Epsteined. (I suspect Mossad is putting together a little list)
No hate crime charge?
Protesters are protesting. Fine.
Protesters are blocking passage — spray, cuff, and haul them off.
Perhaps they should move to Gaza.
Damn Islamophobic insurrectionists, setting fire to Jewish-owned business.
Oh, wait.