“America never agreed to a world tribunal that can override our own courts and the Constitution”

Posted on July 25, 2026 by ArchitectGuy

U.S. DEPARTMENT OF STATE
Why We’re Dismantling the ICC
Secretary of State Marco Rubio
July 14, 2026

Most of us would struggle to imagine a world in which U.S. soldiers, police officers, Border Patrol agents and elected leaders could be dragged before an international court, tried by judges from random countries across the globe, found guilty under international laws we neither consent to nor control, and then imprisoned thousands of miles from America. But that is what the International Criminal Court now claims the power to do. The ICC was born at the turn of the century. At first, it was marketed as a narrow backstop to prosecute the gravest crimes. Now the ICC and its allies seek a standing world tribunal with near-unlimited reach, empowered to override the courts and constitutions of the U.S. and other sovereign states—and to prosecute and arrest our citizens. READ MORE

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“Jesse Jackson’s daughter has revealed that she has converted to Judaism, describing how the late civil rights leader supported her decision and even joined her at a synagogue before his death ”

Posted on July 24, 2026 by ArchitectGuy

THE JEWISH NEWS
Jesse Jackson’s daughter reveals she has converted to Judaism
Annabel Sinclair
July 24, 2026

Writing in an opinion piece for The Washington Post, Ashley L. Jackson said she completed her conversion on 12 June after what she described as a years-long spiritual journey shaped by study, illness and a growing connection to Jewish life. Jackson, a writer, producer and founder of the nonprofit Push The Next Generation, said her father attended a Shabbat service at her synagogue two years before he died, where he joined in the celebration despite coming from a Baptist Christian background. She wrote: “As the Saturday morning service proceeded, my father sat in the front row – holding my hand, dancing to prayers in a language he did not speak, eating the Sunkist candies the congregation had tossed to celebrate a bar mitzvah.” READ MORE

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“The modern “Palestinian” identity was invented for the explicit purpose of destroying the Jewish state”

Posted on July 24, 2026 by ArchitectGuy

FUTURE OF JEWISH
The Israeli Occupation That Must End
Nachum Kaplan
Jul 25, 2026

Israel’s alleged occupation of Judea and Samaria and Gaza grabs the headlines but is nothing compared to its biggest occupation, which is that of the Western mind. The Jewish state has no interest in this occupation, but the Western mind will not let it go, no matter how many stage hypnosis tricks Israel pulls to break itself free. Israel has psychologically occupied the Western imagination. A country smaller than many American states, containing a fraction of the population of the Middle East and fighting conflicts that are nowhere near the world’s largest or bloodiest, commands an astonishing share of Western moral attention. It is discussed with an intensity normally reserved for superpowers, civilisational threats, and celebrities behaving badly in restaurants. Governments issue statements. Universities convene panels and protests. Artists sign letters. Trade unions pass motions. Actors who cannot locate their own dignity suddenly locate “Palestine.” READ MORE

FUTURE OF JEWISH
Melissa Brodsky: Jews were the original Palestinians In 1938, someone living in Tel Aviv (the first modern, all-Jewish city) reading the morning news was likely looking at The Palestine Post. A classical music fan attending a concert would probably watch the Palestine Symphony Orchestra. A builder needing a loan for a Jewish settlement went to the Anglo-Palestine Bank. They were Jewish, and they were Palestinian. Today, that sounds very much like a contradiction. People have been brainwashed to view the word “Palestinian” as an exclusive ethnic and national identity belonging solely to the Arab residents of the region. But history leaves a very long paper trail, and those documents show a different reality. The current use of the word is a recent invention. It’s not born from ancient roots, but from a calculated political strategy in the 1960s. To understand how a word that once described Jews became the battle cry against them, it helps to look at the timeline.

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“For now, events in the Gulf are being treated as “foreign news,” with Israelis chiefly concerned about the impact on flights, but that appears likely to change soon. And there is no denying it: Something is amiss in relations with the White House”

Posted on July 23, 2026 by ArchitectGuy

ISRAEL HAYOM (by agreement with JNS)
Netanyahu’s insistence offers a clear hint of what lies ahead
Amit Segal
July 23, 2026

“Call us when you’re serious,” US Secretary of State James Baker told the late Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir in the early 1990s. Under the current Republican administration, with the current Likud prime minister, Washington is still answering the phone. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and US President Donald Trump are speaking, although no longer every day. Something has been amiss in relations between the White House and the Prime Minister’s Office since the war with Iran became more complicated. The president’s inner circle is smaller and more closed than in previous administrations, and gaining access to it has become increasingly difficult. The Americans are making it clear to the Israelis that they are running the war and that everything is fine, thank you very much. But it is evident to everyone that Israel is moving into the back seat. READ MORE

ISRAEL HAYOM Lilach Shoval: Israel eyes new targets, more aggressive strikes in next Iran campaign As of this writing, although several Israeli municipal authorities have decided to open public shelters, the IDF Home Front Command has not changed its instructions for civilians. But after the experience of the past year during Operation Rising Lion and Operation Roaring Lion, local authorities and the public alike are clearly reading the signs and understand that Israel may once again be heading toward another round of fighting with Iran. Israel has, in fact, dramatically raised its alert level since the beginning of the week. Until now, the level of readiness was considered “high.” The Israel Defense Forces are now at maximum readiness and prepared for any development at extremely short notice. In effect, the Israeli security establishment is ready to carry out any decision the political leadership may make. 

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Murray: “The mayor accused Israel’s leader of genocide and the maiming of children. And he wants to make an enemy of America’s closest ally”

Posted on July 21, 2026 by ArchitectGuy

FREE PRESS
Why Mamdani Is Targeting Netanyahu
Douglas Murray
July 22, 2026

Sometimes you wonder why a person went into politics. Other times, you know exactly why they did. For Zohran Mamdani, yesterday was a case of the latter. On Tuesday evening he released a two-minute video of himself, seated behind a desk, flanked by the flags of the United States and New York. He had arranged this posture—for posture it was—to announce a development in the case of Zohran Mamdani vs. Benjamin Netanyahu, otherwise known as Mamdani vs. the State of Israel. Attacks on Israel have been central to Mamdani’s political rise. He has spent his life marinating in postcolonial politics, Third Worldism, and anti-Zionism, and brings agitation, certainty, and ignorance to debates about the Middle East…Several things were obvious to any casual observer. The first is that the United Nations General Assembly occurs each September in New York. Therefore, there was always going to be an opportunity for a showdown. The second is that the mayor of New York does not have any right to run U.S. foreign policy out of Gracie Mansion. READ MORE

NEW YORK POST NYC attacker yelled ‘Allahu Akbar’ as he randomly stabbed two men near Central Park, according to victim, witnesses A deranged attacker yelling “Allahu Akbar” stabbed two men in separate attacks on the Upper West Side Thursday afternoon, Police Commissioner Jessica Tisch said. Investigators were probing whether the suspect Raul Morales, 51, was motivated by hate..Morales, 51, allegedly jumped the first victim, a 57-year-old Asian man near West 84th Street and Central Park West, and stabbed him in the back with a knife at around 1:30 p.m., police and the sources said. The second victim, a 50-year-old man wearing a yarmulke, was attacked after leaving a synagogue at Amsterdam Avenue and West 86th Street, and stabbed in the torso with a screwdriver, according to cops and sources.

JNS Jonathan S. Tobin: The lies behind Mamdani’s Netanyahu stunt are the real threat It didn’t take a statement from President Donald Trump to ensure that New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani isn’t going to arrest Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu when he arrives in Manhattan for the annual U.N. General Assembly meetings in September. Like all world leaders, Netanyahu is protected by the terms of the treaty by which the United States secured the placement of the world body in New York City in the years after the Second World War. Moreover, the United States is not a party to the International Criminal Court in The Hague, whose corrupt former chief prosecutor, Karim Khan, indicted the Israeli leader on false charges of having “intentionally and knowingly deprived” Gaza’s population of food, water, fuel and medicine in 2024. Khan resigned under fire because of a different issue entirely: accusations of sexual misconduct.

JEWISH INSIDER ‘Shame on you’: Mamdani’s viral anti-Netanyahu video sparks fear among Jewish groups A video New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani released late Tuesday night — in which the democratic socialist railed at length against Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu but confessed he couldn’t honor his campaign pledge to arrest him — triggered a wave of warnings from mainstream Jewish organizations that his singular focus on excoriating Israel from his official platforms places New Yorkers at risk. The mayor’s video, released on his office’s social media channels, ran with the tag “Benjamin Netanyahu is a war criminal” and denounced the Jewish state’s leader as “the architect of a horrific genocide…”

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“Herzog said it was his “dream” to see peace between Israel and Saudi Arabia and raised the possibility of direct negotiations supported by Washington”

Posted on July 20, 2026 by ArchitectGuy

THE MEDIA LINE
Rare Saudi-Israeli Media Contacts Re-emerge as Iran Strikes the Gulf
Giorgia Valente
July 21, 2026

Two unusual media appearances involving Saudi Arabia and Israel have revived questions about whether the countries are cautiously reopening channels as Iranian attacks place growing pressure on Gulf security. On July 16, Israeli President Isaac Herzog gave an exclusive interview to Al Arabiya English, telling the Saudi-based outlet that he wanted rapprochement between Israel and Saudi Arabia and expressing respect for Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman…Cyril Widdershoven, a geopolitical and energy analyst and senior adviser at Blue Water Strategy, views Herzog’s interview as a possible signal that Saudi-Israeli engagement is not completely off the table. “It was politically significant because of the platform, timing, and message,” Widdershoven told The Media Line. He said Al Arabiya is part of the Saudi media landscape and argued that giving Herzog a platform to discuss peace and praise the crown prince could have been intended to gauge public and regional reactions. READ MORE

TIMES OF ISRAEL Trump says Saudi civilian nuclear pact is conditioned on normalization with Israel US President Donald Trump said on Thursday that the agreement reached with Saudi Arabia for a civilian nuclear program would require Riyadh to normalize relations with Israel, prompting praise from the office of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. In a post on Truth Social, Trump insisted there would be “no enrichment of material,” meaning the deal wouldn’t grant Saudi Arabia the right to enrich uranium on its soil.

TIMES OF ISRAEL US confirms signing a nuclear cooperation pact with Saudi Arabia, to Israel’s alarm Trump administration releases few details about agreement, which paves way for construction of uranium enrichment facility that could eventually be converted to develop nuclear bombs

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“Today there are fewer Jews in all of Europe than there are Arab citizens of Israel. So much for Europe lecturing Israel about tolerance”

Posted on July 20, 2026 by ArchitectGuy

SUBSTACK
The Myth of the “Good Jew”
Yehuda Teitelbaum
June 24, 2026

…Once a society begins stigmatizing Jews, or even just one category of Jews, the writing is already on the wall. Assimilation has never provided lasting protection. Appeasement has never provided lasting protection. Explaining ourselves politely and hoping to be accepted as the “good ones” has never provided lasting protection. We are living through a dangerous moment. The United States, and perhaps Argentina, remain among the few places where Jews are not broadly stigmatized. But even that cannot be taken for granted. A 2023 Harvard-Harris poll found that two thirds of Americans between the ages of 18 and 24 agreed that “Jews as a class are oppressors and should be treated as oppressors.” Those young people will shape the future of public opinion. READ MORE

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“In an interview with Joe Rogan, Vance accused the Jewish state of undermining his peace deal that had already fallen apart”

Posted on July 20, 2026 by ArchitectGuy

FREE PRESS
The Real Cause of J.D. Vance’s Failure in Iran
Batya Ungar-Sargon
July 16, 2026

Vice President J.D. Vance has found the real culprit behind the collapse of the Trump administration’s peace deal with Iran, for which he led negotiations. It’s not the lying mullahs who spent the past 40 years murdering Americans and lying to credulous Democrats about their peaceful intentions. It’s not the lying Iranian negotiators who told Vance and other U.S. negotiators that they were signing a deal in good faith, only to fire on commercial ships passing through the Strait of Hormuz a week later. Certainly, it wasn’t Vance himself, who told CNN’s Jake Tapper how “cool” it was to be making progress in talks with Iran’s leaders…No, the real culprit behind the collapse of Vance’s deal with Iran is conniving Israelis who used their shekels to pay influencers to character-assassinate the vice president, all for the crime of seeking peace. READ MORE

POLITICO Vance’s tough talk on Israel is alienating some Jewish GOP donors The vice president’s pugnacious defense of a ceasefire agreement with Iran that rattled Israeli diplomats — and his tough talk on Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s government — has damaged his standing with some pro-Israel GOP donors who have backed the party under President Donald Trump. “It’s hard to find any support for him at all in the Jewish community,” said Eric Levine, a prominent GOP fundraiser and board member of the Republican Jewish Coalition, a group aimed at strengthening ties between the Jewish community and party leaders. Levine was speaking for himself and not the coalition.

JPOST Micha Danzig: From silence to script: JD Vance stops tolerating antisemitic tropes, starts using them In January, I wrote that US Vice President JD Vance’s persistent refusal to confront antisemitism on the populist Right had to be treated as a primary concern, not a side issue. I argued that silence is a choice; that by declining to name what Megyn Kelly, Tucker Carlson, and Candace Owens were doing when they rehabilitated Nick Fuentes and shrugged off Kanye West’s threats against Jews, Vance was not staying neutral. He was moving the line.

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A brilliant commentary on insufferable anti-Israel hypocrites (reposting this now that the paywall has been removed)

Posted on July 20, 2026 by ArchitectGuy

MORAL CLARITY
I went to an anti-Israel dinner party. It did not go as planned.
Nachum Kaplan
July 18, 2026

The dinner was being held in an immaculate apartment overlooking the city. The furniture was Scandinavian, the lighting was flattering, and the books had been arranged not alphabetically but morally. Edward Said sat beside Frantz Fanon. Judith Butler leaned against a large volume on de-colonising architecture. There were several books about Israel, none by Israelis, historians, military analysts, Arabic speakers, Hebrew speakers, or anyone who had recently burdened themselves with the region’s chronology. The apartment belonged to Oliver and Beatrice, who had invited 12 people for what they called “an evening of food, friendship and necessary conversation.” I had been included, I later realised, as the necessary conversation; the one in need of “education.” Beatrice greeted me at the door with the expression of a person welcoming a recently rehabilitated extremist. “We’re so glad you came,” she said, touching my arm. “We were worried you might feel uncomfortable.” READ MORE

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“The findings reinforce a widening age gap in American attitudes toward Israel: overwhelming support among older voters, but deep hostility among the youngest adults.”

Posted on July 20, 2026 by ArchitectGuy

ALGEMEINER
Poll: 60% of Young US Voters Side With Hamas Over Israel
Corey Walker
July 20, 2026

A majority of the youngest American voters say they support Hamas over Israel in the current conflict, exposing a dramatic generational divide even as nearly three-quarters of the electorate continues to side with the Jewish state. Sixty percent of registered voters aged 18–24 chose Hamas when asked whether they supported “more Israel or more Hamas,” according to the July Harvard CAPS-Harris poll. Just 40 percent selected Israel. No other age group favored the US-designated terrorist organization. Support for Israel rose steadily with age: 62 percent among voters aged 25–34, 67 percent among those 35–44, 77 percent among those 45–54, 80 percent among those 55–64, and 88 percent among voters 65 and older. READ MORE

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