Activists Find New Disaster To Blame on Israel — the California Wildfires

Congressman Ritchie Torres calls it ‘slanderous scapegoating.’

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A resident hoses down hot spots at a fire-ravaged property at Los Angeles, January 8, 2025. AP/Eugene Garcia

Anti-Israel activists appear to be conjuring up a new charge to levy against the Jewish state: causing the California wildfires. 

CUNY Law graduate, Fatima Mohammed, who is an active member of the hard-line anti-Israel group, Within Our Lifetime, floated her less-than-scientific hypothesis tying the fires in Southern California to the war across the globe in Gaza in a series of posts on X

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