Earlier this week, Hamas terrorists supporter and Cuban dictatorship agent of influence Calla Walsh was arrested along with her comrades when they attacked an Israeli company in New Hampshire. The far-left extremist vandalized the building and apparently attempted to firebomb the facility with incendiary devices. After Calla Walsh was released on Thursday, the antisemitic leftist radical quickly invoked her idol, communist dictator Fidel Castro, claiming history would absolve her.
Via Diario de Cuba (my translation):
‘History will absolve us’: Agent of influence Calla Walsh is released in the U.S. and invokes Fidel Castro
Calla Walsh, an agent of influence for the Cuban regime in the U.S. and a pro-Palestine activist who was detained on Monday by the police in New Hampshire after causing damage and allegedly attempting to set fire to an Israeli arms company’s building, was released on Thursday.
According to the young woman herself, “after three days of detention without phone calls, I was released after posting a $20,000 bond.”
In a post on X, she added that she is facing “an extreme level of political repression by the state and I need all the support I can get. History will absolve us, and Palestine will be free.”
In a second post, she warned that she would try to respond to the messages she receives and that she has a lot to tell. However, she added, “the ways I can use social media have changed drastically. For now, if you need to contact me, write me privately or ask for my email on Proton.” This refers to an encrypted messaging service created after Edward Snowden’s disclosures regarding federal agencies’ surveillance practices on citizens.
Walsh was detained by the police along with activists Bridget Shergalis and Sophie Ross on the roof of a building that serves as headquarters for the company Elbit Systems, located in Merrimack County, New Hampshire.
The Southern Hillsborough County Superior Court processed them for rioting, sabotage-destruction of property, attempted theft, and charges of criminal conspiracy, all felonies, and a misdemeanor count of trespassing for each, as reported by the Patch.
The young women were arrested on Monday after the Merrimack Police responded to Elbit Systems of America following a report of protesters blocking the building’s entrance and accessing the roof of the facility.
The police stated that the company is “an international technology company headquartered in Israel” focusing on “defense and security.” According to activists, the company would serve Israel’s war effort against Hamas, leading them to call for boycotting it and staging protests near its facilities.
The police found a bicycle lock blocking the building’s two front doors, preventing employees from exiting. Additionally, authorities observed smoke coming from the building’s roof, which was later determined to have originated from an incendiary device carried by Walsh, according to an affidavit cited by Patch.
Furthermore, the officers reported “extensive damage” to the front of the building, including broken windows and spray-painted “anti-Israeli slogans,” “Free Gaza,” and criticisms of the company, labeling them “genocide profiteers” and “Elbit kills,” as well as “obscene words.”
An officer reported Ross had red spray paint on her sneakers and pants. Additionally, the affidavit noted that Walsh’s shoes also had red spray paint.
After being processed, Shergalis received a cash bond of $5,000, while Ross and Walsh’s bond amounted to $20,000, as the judge considered them repeat offenders since a few weeks prior, they were arrested with seven other individuals in Cambridge, Massachusetts, also outside Elbit Systems’ facilities in that city.
Although Walsh did not mention it in her post, the court ruled that she will have to appear again before the superior court on January 23, 2024.
The U.S. press highlighted that Walsh participates in initiatives like the so-called Boston Mapping project, launched by pro-Palestine groups to create an interactive map marking the location of Jewish entities and other community organizations in that state.
At 16 years old, she was one of the proponents of the Students for Markey campaign, supporting the re-election of Senator Ed Markey from Massachusetts, in favor of Boston Mayor Michelle Wu, and the presidential campaigns of U.S. Senators Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders.
Calla Walsh has a public history as an agent of influence for the Cuban regime. Despite being 19 years old, she holds the position of co-chair of the National Network on Cuba (NNOC), a U.S.-based group linked to Manolo de los Santos, co-director of The People’s Forum organization. He is one of the figures that the official propaganda apparatus has boosted in recent years as a coordinator of actions in the neighboring country, especially advocating for Havana’s exclusion from Washington’s list of state sponsors of terrorism.
In April of this year, she was among the activists from U.S. organizations invited to Havana to celebrate May Day, in a “solidarity tour” coordinated by The People’s Forum.
During Díaz-Canel’s visit to New York last September to attend the UN General Assembly, Walsh took a photo with him at one of the meetings organized in that city by the Cuban representation to the United Nations.
A few days later, she stood out for denouncing through a live video on social media the Molotov cocktail attack against the Cuban Embassy in Washington, which remains unsolved to this day.
In June, the young woman was among those detained for staging a protest outside the office of former Cuban-American Senator Bob Menéndez. On that occasion, she was accompanied by Gail Walker, director of the pro-Cuban regime organization Pastors for Peace. Walsh later celebrated that both she and her companions were released on bail.
In statements to the official Cuban news agency Prensa Latina, relayed by the Cuban Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MINREX), Walsh acknowledged that within U.S. territory, there are people “traveling to Cuba and upon returning, after learning about the reality of the island, have decided to form new coalitions in their cities to organize against the blockade.”
“This year, precisely, there are so many new organizations forming in solidarity with Cuba: a coalition against the blockade was created in Philadelphia; in Michigan, a state committee to unite people to tell their elected officials to end sanctions on Cuba, and also in Ohio and other cities,” she added.
So was Calla raised by her parents or by, oh, I don’t know, Cuban state security personnel? Lord have mercy.