Phildelphia boycotters “made these Jewish restaurants rock stars”

Posted on November 8, 2026 by ArchitectGuy

NEW YORK POST
Philly ‘Kristallnacht’ protests at Jewish-owned businesses drowned out, shouted down by huge crowds
Steve Vago and Ronny Reyes
November 8, 2026

Protests of Jewish-owned businesses in Philadelphia by dozens of masked bikers on the eve of the Kristallnacht anniversary were drowned out by a massive crowd of heckling counter-protesters on Sunday. The boycott, which targeted restaurants run by Jewish Americans in Philly’s ritzy Rittenhouse Square neighborhood, came face-to-face with a large counterprotest aimed at supporting the businesses. However, the protest was forced to shut down early, with organizers claiming “safety concerns.”  Lines at the Jewish-owned businesses stretched out the door as supporters publicly come out toback them.  Social media posts for the protest demanded that the businesses leave the city….Despite the claim that the protest was “anti-Zionist,” one business owner said her mac and cheese shop had nothing to do with Israel, and believes she was targeted because she wears a Star of David. The protest Sunday came on the eve of the anniversary for the 1938 Nazi night of terror in Germany and Austria, where Jewish-owned businesses and neighborhoods were sacked. READ MORE

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“US District Court for the District of Columbia rules that Arnold and Frimet Roth, the parents of 15-year-old Malka Roth, can serve Tamimi with legal papers through social media”

Posted on November 8, 2026 by ArchitectGuy

JPOST
Sbarro bombing terrorist Ahlam Tamimi served with US lawsuit via X
Danielle Greyman-Kennard
November 4, 2026

Ahlam Tamimi, the terrorist responsible for the Sbarro bombing in Jerusalem in 2001, was served with legal papers on X/Twitter on Tuesday in a case brought by the National Jewish Advocacy Center on behalf of the estate of Malka “Malki” Roth, according to the organization’s Rabbi Dr. Mark Goldfeder. The US District Court for the District of Columbia ruled that Arnold and Frimet Roth, the parents of 15-year-old Malka Roth, could serve Tamimi with legal papers through social media on X/Twitter, because Tamimi continues to reside in Jordan at an unknown address. Arnold Roth, speaking for the Roth family, said: “This lawsuit places Tamimi under legal pressure in an American court for the first time. We hope the case will also draw public attention to the fact that the US criminal prosecution has remained stalled for more than a decade. READ MORE

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UNRWA’s acting chief advancing plan to gradually dismantle the agency amid a massive budget deficit and an Israeli ban on its operations

Posted on November 8, 2026 by ArchitectGuy

ISRAEL HAYOM (by agreement with JNS)
UNRWA faces shutdown as plan emerges to transfer responsibilities to Board of Peace
Danny Zaken
November 1, 2026

Arab and Western diplomatic sources tell Israel Hayom that a plan to gradually shut down the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) and transfer its responsibilities and operations to the Board of Peace is expected to be presented soon, following talks between the two bodies. UNRWA, established in 1949 and operational since 1950, is the UN agency dedicated specifically to Palestinian refugees. Its mandate has effectively preserved Palestinian refugee status across generations, even though most of those registered as refugees have long since settled and established themselves in other countries or in territories administered by the Palestinian Authority. In recent years, Israel has passed two laws and additional legislation targeting UNRWA, banning its operations in Israel and prohibiting contact between the agency and Israeli government bodies. Most of its assets in Israel have been seized, while a sharp decline in contributions from Western and Arab countries has further undermined its ability to operate. READ MORE

UNraveling UNRWA, Official Trailer

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Yashar rules out coalition with Netanyahu; Likud urges unity while calling rivals ‘the disaster bloc’

Posted on November 5, 2026 by ArchitectGuy

TIMES OF ISRAEL
Herzog says he’ll task a would-be PM on Sunday, after Eisenkot is recommended by 67 of 120 MKs
Stav Levaton
November 6, 2026

Yashar leader Gadi Eisenkot on Thursday received the backing of a majority of Knesset members to be prime minister after parties consulted with President Isaac Herzog, paving the way for him to be granted the mandate to attempt to form the next government. Following the meetings, Herzog said representatives of factions totaling 67 lawmakers backed Eisenkot, while factions totaling 46 lawmakers recommended Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Although the result was “clear,” the president said he would hold further talks with party leaders to clarify the situation before assigning the mandate to form a government on Sunday. Yashar subsequently urged Herzog to give Eisenkot the task “as soon as possible,” noting that the support of 67 seats is the largest number of recommendations given to a candidate since 2015. Despite the support, Eisenkot’s path to assembling a coalition is unclear. The anti-Netanyahu parties are split between a 48-member, four-party Jewish-led bloc and a 19-member bloc of two Arab-led parties. All six of these parties recommended Eisenkot as prime minister. But three of the Jewish-led parties are thus far refusing to partner with the Arab parties. READ MORE

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Hillbilly Alibi: Vance puts the finger on Israel

Posted on November 5, 2026 by ArchitectGuy

JEWISH INSIDER
Vance blames GOP’s dismal midterm performance on Iran war, U.S.-Israel relationship
Emily Jacobs
November 4, 2026

Vice President JD Vance blamed Republicans’ poor performance in the midterm elections on the U.S. war in Iran, calling it “obvious to almost everyone,” as well as the current state of the U.S.-Israel relationship. Vance offered his assessment in a lengthy statement on X on Wednesday morning, attributing the fact that “many people who voted for Trump/Vance in 2024 voted for Democrats in 2026” to the Trump administration’s approach to Middle East politics…The vice president said that a pollster, whom he described as “one of the smartest people I know in politics,” told him on Tuesday that some voters who supported President Donald Trump in 2024 “were angry and planning to vote for Democrats” due to four primary reasons: a desire to “end the war” in Iran, to “focus on cost of living/inflation,” to “put America First,” and to “change our relationship to Israel.” READ MORE

JNS Vance blames election loss on Iran war, relationship with Israel “The reason we lost is the war,” the U.S. vice president wrote. “If you’d like to argue it was worth it, that losing the Senate for the next six years was worth it, then do so” but “that’s at least honest.”

MEDIA LINE Vance Blames Iran War, Israel Ties for Midterm Losses; President Trump Defends Strikes President Donald Trump said Wednesday that Vice President JD Vance was largely correct in attributing Republicans’ sweeping congressional election losses to the war in Iran and US relations with Israel, but defended his decision to launch the military campaign in February. Speaking to reporters while touring construction of a new White House ballroom, Trump said he agreed with Vance’s assessment of the election results but would not have changed his approach to Iran. “I know how he feels about it … I think it was fine. I thought it was good,” President Trump said of Vance’s post on X. “I knew the war was gonna impact [the election results]. Whether it impacted it or not, Iran can’t have a nuclear weapon,” he added. “I would’ve done nothing different.”

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“For me, the disaster isn’t that Democrats won or Republicans lost. It’s that politicians who demonize Israel, deny Jewish self-determination and explain away antisemitism are finding an increasingly receptive electorate in the world’s most important democracy”

Posted on November 5, 2026 by ArchitectGuy

JEWISH JOURNAL
Hatred Opened the Door. A Missed Victory Held It Open.
Micah Danzig
November 4, 2026

Tuesday’s midterm results should alarm anyone who knows Jewish history, understands antisemitism or recognizes why Israel is central to the identity of the overwhelming majority of the world’s Jews. For me, the disaster isn’t that Democrats won or Republicans lost. It’s that politicians who demonize Israel, deny Jewish self-determination and explain away antisemitism are finding an increasingly receptive electorate in the world’s most important democracy. Whatever the Democratic Socialists of America and their growing roster of allies insist, Zionism is not “colonialism.” It is the national liberation movement of an indigenous people who reclaimed sovereignty in their ancestral homeland after nearly two thousand years of actual colonialism in that land. Israel is the one country where Jews don’t depend on others’ goodwill for their collective survival. The last few centuries have taught us, at the cost of millions of lives, what that dependence means. READ MORE

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Trump added that he’d reached an agreement with Netanyahu on the issue, saying Bibi was the one who raised the issue given the Democratic opposition to the continued funding

Posted on November 5, 2026 by ArchitectGuy

FDD
An Abrupt End to U.S. Military Financing to Israel Would Hurt Both Allies
Justin Leopold-Cohen and Samuel Ben-Ur
November 5, 2026

President Donald Trump has promised to end U.S. military aid to Israel by year’s end, even as the two allies deliberate on whether to resume attacks on Iran. On November 3, the president asked why Republicans should “suffer the slings” from critics of Israel when Jerusalem “no longer need[s]” the money it receives from America. Trump then said aid would be cut off by the end of 2026. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu articulated a version of this idea in January, stating, “I want to taper off the military aid within the next 10 years.” This was a reference to the current U.S.-Israel memorandum of understanding (MOU) that provides Israel military assistance. Gradually phasing out aid became the premise for negotiating a new agreement in June. Ending U.S. military assistance before Israel can recalibrate would leave Israel’s military vulnerable, hurting Washington as well…The current MOU committed $38 billion for fiscal years (FYs) 2019-2028, including $500 million annually for joint missile and rocket defense programs. Of that annual $3.8 billion, $3.3 billion consists of Foreign Military Financing (FMF), the majority of which goes to American defense procurements, supporting the U.S. economy. READ MORE

JTA Trump says US aid to Israel will stop at the end of the year President Donald Trump on Tuesday morning said that the United States would halt billions of dollars in annual aid to Israel by the end of 2026, potentially ending decades of military funding for one of America’s closest allies in the Middle East. “We were giving them $4 billion. We are. But it gets cut off at the end of the year,” Trump declared during a call-in appearance on the “Fox & Friends” morning program on Fox News. Israel’s 10-year memorandum of understanding (MOU) with the United States, which currently gives Israel $3.8 billion annually, runs through 2028, so it’s unclear how easy it would be for the White House to stop the funding this year and whether Trump is truly committed to changing the arrangement. 

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“For years, both parties have turned aid to Israel into a proxy fight for domestic political grievances. If these elections are an excuse to end that arrangement, we’ll all be better for it”

Posted on November 5, 2026 by ArchitectGuy

FREE PRESS
Why the Midterms Could Birth a New, Better U.S.-Israel Alliance
Liel Leibovitz
November 4, 2026

On Tuesday morning, just hours before the GOP suffered a historic shellacking in the midterm elections, Donald Trump came out with what he hoped would be a game-changing announcement: The U.S., he declared, would soon end its annual $4 billion military aid to Israel. The news should’ve made me happy—my Tablet colleague Jacob Siegel and I spent the last three years making the case for this exact policy. But there was little to celebrate about Trump’s declaration, because anyone listening closely to the president on Election Day, or to the vice president the following morning, would have realized that the administration is making very few right moves—and even then, always for the wrong reasons, and often with disastrous consequences. How so? To answer the question, and to understand why this week’s political upheaval may actually be very good news for anyone concerned with America’s strength and security, it helps to first understand precisely what U.S. aid to Israel is—or, more accurately, what it is not. READ MORE

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“Left and right, campus and cabinet, have arrived at the same place by different roads. The Jews are a liability”

Posted on November 4, 2026 by ArchitectGuy

NEW ZIONIST TIMES
Antisemitism won a mandate. Now what?
Bob Goldberg
November 4, 2026

Antisemitism was on the ballot last night, and antisemitism won. Voters, they will explain, were thinking about gas prices. No doubt many were. But elections are not merely sums of preferences. They are permission slips. They tell a political class what may now be said aloud, what may now be done, and what no longer carries a price. Last night’s permission slip was unusually legible. Michigan elected to the Senate a man who greeted victory by pledging no American money for “apartheid” and “genocide,” to chants of “Free Palestine.” No one in the hall required a footnote to identify the country. In New York, candidates who deny the legitimacy of a Jewish state glided into Congress under the patronage of Zohran Mamdani. Providence voted to divest from Israel. And lest anyone imagine this is a malady of the left alone, the vice president surveyed the wreckage the next morning and concluded that voters want to “change our relationship to Israel.” READ MORE

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Fetterman: “This ‘Boycott Ride’ in Philadelphia is the Left’s pro-Hamas, Jew-hating, BDS assholes-on-wheels. Every Democrat of conscience should condemn this sick parade of rank antisemitism”

Posted on November 4, 2026 by ArchitectGuy

JEWISH INSIDER
Fetterman, McCormick condemn planned rally against Jewish-owned Philly businesses
Marc Rod
November 3, 2026

Pennsylvania Sens. Dave McCormick (R-PA) and John Fetterman (D-PA) condemned the planned “Boycott Ride” in Philadelphia this weekend that aims to force Jewish and Israeli-owned businesses out of the city and has sparked alarm in the Jewish community. Local Jewish groups condemned the rally, which will take place the day before the anniversary of Kristallnacht, as blatantly antisemitic and intended to intimidate the Jewish community. “This ‘Boycott Ride’ is a disgusting attempt to intimidate Philadelphia’s Jewish businesses. This isn’t the first time Jewish [businesses] were targeted in Philadelphia,” McCormick said in a statement to Jewish Insider. “This is pure, unadulterated antisemitism and echoes some of the darkest chapters of human history. Philadelphians should recognize that the low-lives planning to participate are infected with a deeply sick ideology. My office plans to closely monitor the situation, stand by to assist where we’re able.” READ MORE

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