Florida man charged with hate crime for arson at Chabad

Arutz Sheva ^ | 29/9/25 | Grace Gilson

[Eleutheria5]

A Florida man has been arrested in connection with a fire last week in a classroom at a Chabad in Florida, days before Rosh Hashanah.

Blake Richard Hoover, 31, of Punta Gorda, was arrested by local police Monday and charged with arson and criminal mischief. Those charges were also enhanced with hate crime charges, according to the Punta Gorda Police Department.

According to the criminal complaint, Hoover was identified after his mother, Kelly, saw reports of the blaze at the Chabad of Charlotte County in Punta Gorda, Florida, and thought that her son may be responsible.



During the incident Friday night, traces of fuel were found both inside and outside of the charred window of the children’s classroom, and the letter “J” was spray painted in three areas outside of the building.

Kelly Hoover told police that the evening of the arson, her son had returned home with an empty spray paint can as well as an empty gas can that had gone missing earlier in the night. She also told police that Hoover “has a hatred toward homosexuals and Jewish people that’s become worse over the past years,” according to court documents.

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[Eleutheria5]

Pedestrian anti-Semitic violence story, but--THAT FACE! Like Eric Cartman become real and gone through puberty.

[Celtic Conservative]

The picture in the dictionary under the entry for “incel”.

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[Jan_Sobieski]

We may see more of this as demon led talking heads on the right like Tucker Carlson and Clayton Morris blame Israel for every problem in America like transgenderism, foreign wars, and killing Christians. As if we needed Israel for any of those problems

[yldstrk]

Poor mom. I know her pain having a mentally ill son and no help to be had from our worthless community mental health structure.

[TheThirdRuffian]

We need to check the whereabouts of a couple of our loonier posters at the time.

[Eleutheria5]

Right enough. I must boast that the Israeli mental health care has done wonders for our son. But he wants to get better. Some do not, and then they become a menace. But when there is inadequate care, anyone with issues can fall into an abyss.

[af_vet_1981]

Right enough. I must boast that the Israeli mental health care has done wonders for our son.

Baruch HaShem !

[af_vet_1981]

We may see more of this as demon led talking heads on the right like Tucker Carlson and Clayton Morris blame Israel for every problem in America like transgenderism, foreign wars, and killing Christians.

There is a pandemic of evil sweeping the world directed by the father of lies with a bull's eye on Israel. Every soul is being tested.

[yldstrk]

You are very fortunate and thank you for mentioning the Israeli mental health care system as one worth emulating. My poor son, whose mental health was destroyed by his drug use, in my opinion, has since died in a house fire, adding to my horror. No where that I turned could I find help for him since he was a legal adult. All I could do for him was pay his bills. I have been wanting to figure out some way his death would not be in vain. He is in the arms of God now.

[Eleutheria5]

I have a daughter in the states who has problems that she self-medicated and got worse. I took care of her two daughters for three and a half years, after a court battle with the foster care system in Florida, and amid constant skirmishes with the Israeli system. My daughter came back all better, and took charge of her two daughters, did ok for a year, but got stupidly pregnant again, and now there are three, none of the fathers worth a damn, and then she screwed up again and they’re back in the system, though we keep contact. My daughter is back on drugs, and the man she ran out on was a decent enough fellow, a reformed addict himself. She needs help, but would rather get high.

[yldstrk]

I am so sorry. I used to do that abuse/neglect work in court. The state will usually look to the grandparents first but you have to be resident of the state in most cases and file a motion to intervene, and then work with the natural parents to reunify. It’s horrifying. The devil is providing the drugs to our young.

[TheThirdRuffian]

If it’s not too personal, can you tell what makes their system so good?

I know they have a lot of doctors and providers in general, but how does the mental health system work?

I worked in Israel twice, once in the military related to missiles and then related to off shore gas development. I saw very few (if any) bums or vagabonds, which made me wonder if they lock people with mental health issues up or have other solutions. (I’ve been around the world working, and bums are everywhere except very poor countries and countries with strict policing of such things.)

[Eleutheria5]

They have, as far as I can see 1. infrastructure, such as hospitals and clinics with qualified psychiatrists, some of which is horrible, but a lot of which is good. 2. They hire talent. The best psychiatrists my son saw while in hospital were Arabs. No DEI, no discrimination. Just merit.

As for bums, there are some, but they sleep in pedestrian tunnels. The only place where I’ve seen them just sleeping in the street is here in Haifa, the drug addicts waiting for their fixit man. That was right near my house until the police cleared the fixit men up and got them out of my building. One of them, a tranny who shouts in Arabic like Fred Flintstone (you’d have to be there) at all hours of the night, is back and occasionally makes an appearance, but he’s no longer in my building. Good riddance. His wife/sister/who knows? used to voluntarily mop half the stairwell. Now I do that job on the whole stairwell, not for pay, but just to have a nice stairwell and no dead rodents dragged in by cats as a love offering. They used to collect bottles and give us some to buy our goodwill. But somebody called the 5-Oh on them, and I’m glad of it.

We live in one of the worst neighborhoods in Haifa. But it’s much nicer than the neighborhoods I lived in in the US. No gunshots. Gangs, but they only shoot each other occasionally. No drivebys, and plenty of crack shots who did their three years of military. So when they shoot someone, it’s accurate and intentional, and limited to the target.

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[humblegunner]

We live in one of the worst neighborhoods in Haifa.

[Jewbacca]

There are homeless/bums in Israel, but not as many. I think its a couple of things: less of a drug culture (probably due to military service), better health care, tighter family units, and . . . the Russian Mobsters.

Specifically, there was a pretty comparable homeless issue in Tel Aviv to other Western countries until the 1990s when the Russian immigrants showed up.

As far as the city is concerned, you have a lot of what I would call a “bodega” set up where there is retail on most first floors and then housing above it.

Groups of ten or so tough guys from each block would go around to the retailers and say “hey for $300/month we can make sure the bums don’t bother your customers sitting outside your cafe” (or, implied, they’d send them to you).

Well, most businesses buy the protection.

The bums get beat up, their crap tossed into a dumpster and they move on or get moved on.

This moved from block-to-block until the city was free of bums.

Now, you only see them in public areas like the central bus depo or pedestrian walk ways. Bomb shelters generally get cleaned out on the regular by cops/military.

I’ve literally seen one beggar while at a restaurant. The waiter promptly took his picture, presumably texted it to someone, and he took off running when a van came screeching up and some very Russian looking guys jumped out.

[Eleutheria5]

There are beggars on Hertzel Street during the day, and at the central train terminal downtown in Haifa. You can tell the junkies easily enough. They’re the most persistent. If you give them ten shekels, they ask for twenty. Twenty, they want fifty. One shekel, they want five. I’ll give one, and if anyone asks for more, I say “I’m not a Rothchild” and move on.

Plenty of Russians here, but they’re fighting over turf, I think.