Overview
- Rotterdam police said a fire was set at the synagogue around 3:40 a.m. and burned briefly before being extinguished, with no injuries reported.
- Authorities are treating the blaze as arson, have made no arrests, and issued a witness appeal in a post on X.
- The incident comes days after an explosion damaged a synagogue in Liège, Belgium, which federal prosecutors placed under a counterterrorism probe; no injuries were reported there.
- In Michigan, a driver crashed a truck into a synagogue and its preschool and was shot dead by security, an act the FBI described as violence targeting the Jewish community.
- Dutch officials and Jewish organizations condemned the Rotterdam attack as antisemitic, as communities report heightened concerns since the U.S.-Israeli war on Iran began while investigators work to establish motive.