“Qatari envelopes of cash raise huge questions. Never in Israeli history has a sector gone from the lowest turnout to the highest in the space of a single election”

Posted on October 29, 2026 by ArchitectGuy

IT’S NOON IN ISRAEL
The Stolen Election
Amit Segal
October 29, 2026

It’s Thursday, October 29, and yesterday, it looked as if 2026 would go down in Israeli electoral history as the year of unprecedented Arab turnout. After the latest news, it may end up remembered as the year of unprecedented malign foreign interference. Central Elections Committee Chairman Justice Noam Sohlberg has ordered an inquiry by Israel’s internal security agency. His letter to Shin Bet chief David Zini, made public this morning, cites “serious suspicions of improper influence through foreign funding” by foreign actors working against Israel’s interests. If you follow improper influence until you meet foreign funding, you’ll end up in Doha. And indeed, according to Channel 12, the Shin Bet suspects that Qatari money was funneled into boosting Arab turnout, partly through channels previously used to move terror funds. READ MORE

ARUTZ SHEVA Final election results released: Full seat distribution and political bloc breakdown According to the results, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s Likud is the largest party in the Knesset with 27 seats, followed by Gadi Eisenkot’s Yashar party with 21 seats and Together, led by Naftali Bennett, with 12. The Joint List won 11 seats, the Democrats and Ra’am secured eight seats each, and Yisrael Beytenu, Otzma Yehudit, and United Torah Judaism each won seven seats. Shas and the Religious Zionist Party each received six seats. All other parties that contested the election failed to cross the electoral threshold. The distribution between the political blocs gives the current coalition 53 seats, the opposition bloc 48, and the Arab parties a combined 19 seats.

JPOST Netanyahu’s chief of staff provided intel. leading to arrests in Ra’am vote bribery case Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s Chief of Staff, Ido Norden, transferred information to the Israel Police that led to the arrests of three Arab Ra’am party activists on Tuesday on suspicion of election bribery, N12 News reported on Thursday. The three Bedouin suspects, residents of the Segev Shalom and Ar’ara BaNegev communities, are suspected of attempting to bribe citizens on the eve of Election Day to vote for Ra’am. According to N12, Norden called senior police officials and provided details that initiated the investigation and led to the arrests. Lahav 433 now has jurisdiction over the case.

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“Let us, then, imagine what might happen if Bibi picked up the phone, called Mansour Abbas, and made him an offer he couldn’t refuse”

Posted on October 29, 2026 by ArchitectGuy

TABLET MAG
Bibi Should Form a Government With Mansour Abbas: Before you reach for the smelling salts, hear me out
Liel Leibovitz
October 29, 2026

…Let us, then, imagine what might happen if Bibi picked up the phone, called Abbas, and made him an offer he couldn’t refuse. First of all, the move would sucker punch Israel’s other Arab party, the Joint List, a ragtag coalition of Assadists, Communists, and terror enthusiasts. One of its leaders, Sami Abu Shehadeh, was recently instructed by Israel’s Supreme Court to renounce his candidacy rather than risk being disqualified for his repeated support of terrorism, including calling Oct. 7 a historic event. By extending Abbas an invitation, Bibi could send an important message to Israel’s Arab citizens: You must choose between Israel and “Palestine.” One path leads to greater agency, significant political clout, and the power and the budgets to address the issues Israeli Arabs really care about, including subpar infrastructure and rising crime in their communities. The other leads to irrelevance or worse. Second, such an offer would devastate the so-called Change Bloc, the gaggle of boobs who ran a silly campaign offering no other plan or qualification save for not being Bibi. READ MORE

MEDIA LINE Israeli Arabs, Palestinians View Path to Coalition Through Political Clout Together, the opposition and Arab parties would command 67 seats, enough to replace Netanyahu if they could agree on a governing arrangement. But the arithmetic masks deep political divisions. Eisenkot, Naftali Bennett and Avigdor Liberman have previously rejected reliance on Arab parties, while Democrats leader Yair Golan has urged cooperation to remove Netanyahu. For Palestinian citizens of Israel, the results reflect political mobilization fueled by frustration over domestic policies, organized crime and successive wars. For Palestinians in the West Bank, the possibility of change is being viewed more cautiously. Nidal Foqaha, a Palestinian political analyst based in Ramallah, told The Media Line that the Arab parties’ success reflected growing insecurity among their voters.

JNS Fiamma Nirenstein: Democracy as common sense The change bloc did everything it could to destroy Benjamin Netanyahu. In Italy, something similar happened to Silvio Berlusconi, the billionaire media mogul who served four times as Italian prime minister: character assassination. It was carried out with passion and skill. At dawn on Election Day, outside polling stations, pleasant young activists reminiscent of Hashomer Hatzair, the socialist Zionist youth movement founded more than a century ago, would approach you in pairs and explain why Netanyahu simply had to go home. For months, the relentless hammering spared no aspect of the prime minister: his responsibility for Oct. 7, the hostages, his trial, his family. And yet, with 85% of the ballots counted, the Likud-led bloc stood at 53 seats, while Gadi Eisenkot’s camp had 48. The two sides are not so far apart, but Bibi is stronger.

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All of the expats who spoke with JI at Ben Gurion Airport on Wednesday night voted for the bloc led by former IDF Chief of Staff Gadi Eisenkot

Posted on October 29, 2026 by ArchitectGuy

JEWISH INSIDER
After Israel’s election, expats leave country disappointed by result
Lahav Harkov
October 29, 2026

A day after the polls closed in Israel, Ben Gurion Airport was packed. The long lines for security were populated in part by Israeli expats who had returned to the Jewish state to vote, and were returning to their homes abroad. Some 67,000 Israelis were estimated to have flown in for the vote, making up more than a seat in the Knesset if they were to vote for the same party.  All of the expats who spoke with Jewish Insider at the airport on Wednesday night, several of whom were unwilling to speak on the record, voted for the bloc led by former IDF Chief of Staff Gadi Eisenkot, with most choosing the left-wing Democrats party…“Obviously I’m disappointed,” she said. “I’m hopeful it’s not the end. I do think that, in many ways, the coalition that we have today lost. … It’s clear the current government doesn’t have the same support they had before.”  READ MORE

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Abdul El-Sayed is a member of Muslim Unity Center. And their youth director offered a prayer for the destruction of Jews.

Posted on October 28, 2026 by ArchitectGuy

WASHINGTON FREE BEACON
‘May Allah Curse the Jews’: El-Sayed and Father Have Close Ties to Mosque Whose Board Is Packed With Extremists Slinging Bloodthirsty Lines From Quran
Jon Levine
October 29, 2026

Abdul El-Sayed has a long history of involvement with a notorious Michigan mosque whose leaders have defended payments to the families of terrorists and offered prayers to Allah to destroy the Jews. The Michigan Senate Democratic nominee has been affiliated with the Muslim Unity Center in Bloomfield Township—”part of this community,” as El-Sayed put it—since at least 2017, according to a Facebook post from the mosque. His father, Mohammed El-Sayed, formally became a member in 2019, according to another Facebook post from the mosque—though a 2006 local news article identified the elder El-Sayed as an “imam” for the center as early as 2006…A 2020 annual report from the mosque notes that it partnered with Abdul El-Sayed “for a two-day training on civic engagement, organizing, and storytelling” for Muslim youth looking to get involved in the 2020 elections. “Being able to be a part of this community has meant a lot to me,” El-Sayed said in a promotional video for the mosque in May 2021. El-Sayed also touted his enthusiasm for people with “different perspectives on what it means to be an American.” READ MORE

FEDERALIST Democrats Care Too Much About Power To Distance Themselves From Terrorism Apologists Democrat senatorial candidate Abdul El-Sayed is a terrorism apologist and a threat to our constitutional republic. Unfortunately, Democrat leaders care too much about power to put country over party, submitting themselves instead to the control of anarchists and Islamists or Islamist-adjacent politicians and public figures. Voters, however, can stand firm on Tuesday and declare, not on my watch. Whether it was El-Sayed’s “hurt people do hurt people” response to a terrorist attack on a Michigan synagogue, or his refusal to unequivocally condemn the Iranian government during his final senatorial debate against challenge Mike Rogers, El-Sayed’s own words have exposed his sympathy to terrorists. And those are just a couple of the Democrat’s public statements. In private, a leaked audio captured El-Sayed telling staffers he did not want to comment on the killing of Ayatollah Khamenei because “there are a lot of people in Dearborn who are sad today.”

FRONT PAGE El-Sayed and Obama – Perfect Together Barack Obama shares El-Sayed’s antipathy towards Israel. He has questioned the Jewish state’s legitimacy. During a visit to Northern Ireland, Mr. Obama claimed that when the State of Israel was founded, the Jews “took land off people and they were excessive. And those people understandably said, ‘This is injustice and I want my land back’.” Obama declared that Israel had “ceded moral ground” by relying on military force without making concessions. All of this is a pack of lies worthy of Abdul El-Sayed’s pal Hasan Piker, the radical Jew-hating, anti-American streamer who was joined at the hip with El-Sayed during his primary campaign.

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Somewhere, an “anti-Israel” activist is trying to explain why Arab voters deciding Israel’s political future is still apartheid.

Posted on October 28, 2026 by ArchitectGuy

FUTURE OF JEWISH
Arab Israelis just ruined a favorite lie about Israel
Joshua Hoffman
October 28, 2026

Somewhere in London, New York, Paris, or Melbourne, a wannabe “activist” is explaining to a room full of people that Israel is an “apartheid state.” Meanwhile, in Israel, Arab voters may have just become the most important people in the country’s political future. You really couldn’t make this stuff up. As the results emerge from Israel’s national election on Tuesday, the country’s political future looked remarkably uncertain. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s bloc was projected to win 53 seats in the 120-member Knesset (Israeli parliament), while the Jewish-led opposition bloc was projected to win 48. Neither side is close to the 61 seats necessary to form a majority government. And then there were the Arab parties. Israel’s two Arab-led electoral lists — the United Arab List (commonly known by its Hebrew abbreviation Ra’am) and the Joint List — are projected to win a combined 19 seats. If that is confirmed, it would be the largest number of Knesset seats ever won collectively by Arab-led parties in the State of Israel’s history. READ MORE

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When gay culture traded rebellion for conformity, and independent thought became the ultimate social crime.

Posted on October 27, 2026 by ArchitectGuy

SUBSTACK
Bandwagon Gays: Will They Ever Learn?
Daniel-Ryan Spaulding
October 23, 2026

…The Birth of the Bandwagon Gay. I first started using this expression around the summer of 2024, after a friend of mine experienced an ugly confrontation on Fire Island. Fire Island has historically been one of the great sanctuaries of gay male culture. It also has a substantial Jewish community, including many gay Jewish men with deep connections to Israel. My friend, who is a gay Orthodox Jew, had been attending a house party when the topic of Israel came up, and in their gaggle of homos someone said something along the lines of “We don’t support genocide here!” He gently told them he had family members serving in the IDF, that he knew people who had been murdered on October 7, and that people he knew had been taken hostage. They shut up quickly, with the slightest eye roll. “Oh. Okay. Whatever.”READ MORE

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In the war with Iran, “Israel has contributed intelligence, targeting capabilities, technological innovation, and sustained offensive military power on a scale few American allies could match”

Posted on October 27, 2026 by ArchitectGuy

TABLET MAG
Is There an Effective ‘America First’ Position on Israel?
Michael Doran
October 21, 2026

…What is the proper “America First” position on Israel? Trump has answered through his actions, taking American military cooperation with Israel to unprecedented heights and treating the Jewish state as a powerful partner against Iran. Vance’s position is more complicated. In a recent interview with Sean Spicer, he acknowledged having disagreed with Trump over the Iran war and expressed sympathy for Tucker Carlson’s anger about it. Carlson has depicted the war as a betrayal of American interests undertaken at Israel’s behest. The contrast between Trump and Vance therefore reaches beyond a disagreement over Netanyahu. It concerns the meaning of American nationalism, the country’s strategic interests, and the future of the political coalition Trump assembled. The United States faces an emerging coalition linking China, Russia, Iran, and North Korea. These powers are developing military, economic, and technological relationships that threaten to consolidate a hostile Eurasian bloc increasingly insulated from American maritime power. Washington cannot contain this challenge alone. READ MORE

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Haredi IDF conscription: “If my rabbi says to leave Israel, I’m going to leave”

Posted on October 27, 2026 by ArchitectGuy

JPOST
‘We do whatever they say’: Yeshiva students defer to rabbis over response to IDF draft enforcement
Sam Halpern
October 26, 2026

Yeshiva students attending a massive United Torah Judaism election rally in Bnei Brak on Sunday told The Jerusalem Post that whether they would leave Israel, stay in the country, or enlist in the IDF if the next government stepped up draft enforcement would depend on their rabbis’ instructions. The rally, held two days before Israel’s election, drew tens of thousands of haredi (ultra-Orthodox) Jews under the slogan “Gather and Stand Up for Our Lives.” Central to the gathering was military conscription for haredi yeshiva students, regarded as a red line by much of the haredi community but widely supported among Jewish Israelis. An October Israel Democracy Institute survey found that 72% of Jewish respondents supported legislation requiring young haredi men to enlist. Speaking at the rally, Rabbi Dov Landau, a leading haredi rabbinic authority, urged supporters to defend Torah study. “Never have yeshiva students and kollel scholars been persecuted as they are being persecuted now,” Landau said. READ MORE

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Jewish actor Adam Brody’s comments called “truly shocking and disgusting”

Posted on October 25, 2026 by ArchitectGuy

NEW YORK POST
‘Nobody Wants This’ star Tovah Feldshuh has thoughts on her fellow celebrities calling the war in Gaza a genocide
Jonathan Harounoff
October 25, 2026

For a show about an interfaith romance, “Nobody Wants This” has become an unlikely battleground over Jewish identity and Israel — perhaps even between some of its biggest stars. As the hit Netflix rom-com returned for season three on Oct. 22, one of its stars found himself at the center of a political firestorm. Adam Brody, who plays progressive California rabbi Noah Roklov, accused Israel of committing genocide in Gaza in a September interview with GQ. “Put me down as thinking it’s a genocide,” Brody said. “Put me down as wanting a free Palestine.”…[Brody co-star Tovah] Feldshuh has her own thoughts on the genocide controversy. “To accuse the Jewish people of genocide is wild,” she told The Post. “It’s right out of Hitler’s playbook. You take the victim and you make the victim the perpetrator.” READ MORE

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‘CTU advertises itself as a bastion of education,’ said event organizer Jonathan Greenberg. ‘They don’t care about education’

Posted on October 23, 2026 by ArchitectGuy

FREE BEACON
Chicago Teachers Union Abruptly Cancels Screening of Documentary on Hamas Sexual Violence Following Complaints From Anti-Israel Activists
Alana Goodman
October 20, 2026

The Chicago Teachers Union (CTU) abruptly canceled the screening of a film documenting Hamas violence on Oct. 7, 2023, after anti-Israel activists objected to the film being shown at the union’s conference center, event organizers told the Washington Free Beacon. The news comes three months after the far-left union hosted a Marxist, anti-Israel conference at which speakers called on attendees to support Iran’s “axis of resistance” and advocated for violence against the United States and Israel. Defending Education, a nonprofit group that supports parental rights and fights antisemitism in the education system, organized the October 19 screening of Screams Before Silence, a documentary by businesswoman Sheryl Sandberg that chronicled the sexual violence Hamas terrorists committed while carrying out the Oct. 7, 2023, terror attacks on Israel. The CTU Foundation agreed to host the screening at its event space in Chicago before reversing course on Friday, just two days before the planned event…READ MORE

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