“Mamdani isn’t going to arrest Israel’s prime minister. But the widespread belief in the “genocide” blood libel illustrates how toxic ideologies, AI and social media are defeating facts”

Posted on July 21, 2026 by ArchitectGuy

JNS
The lies behind Mamdani’s Netanyahu stunt are the real threat
Jonathan S. Tobin
July 21, 2026

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. READ MORE

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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Paywall has been removed so I’m re-posting this brilliant commentary on insufferable anti-Israel hypocrites

Posted on July 20, 2026 by ArchitectGuy
MORAL CLARITY The people who know nothing know everything Nachum Kaplan July 17, 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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DSA: Abolish the Senate, destroy constitutional checks and balances, and eliminate the “carceral forces of the capitalist state”

Posted on July 19, 2026 by ArchitectGuy

CITY JOURNAL
The Democratic Socialists of America Just Adopted a Radical New Platform
Stu Smith
June 17, 2026

…DSA leadership added four amendments: one on “real democracy”—calling for the replacement of “the President and Supreme Court with an executive and judiciary chosen by and subordinate to Congress”—another on police and prison abolition, a provision explicitly naming Jerusalem as the capital of a Palestinian state, and a ranked-choice voting section. The NPC passed two of these four amendments unanimously, while the “real democracy” provision prevailed by a razor-thin margin. “Workers Deserve More!” has revolutionary aspirations. It aims to “win the battle for democracy, draft a new constitution, and create a democratic socialist republic.” The document makes clear that achieving this vision would require “building a new society from the ground up,” accompanied by sweeping structural changes. READ MORE

TIMES OF ISRAEL Adam Milstein: The DSA Is a Trojan Horse the Democratic Party Must Drive Out Nowhere is the DSA’s radicalism more dangerous than in its commitment to anti-Zionism. For the DSA, opposition to Israel’s existence is not a secondary foreign-policy debate; it is a litmus test anchored in its governing text. Analysts note that the DSA functions as a strict ideological enforcement mechanism: any candidate or member who deviates from its anti-Zionist platform or affirms Israel’s right to exist faces swift expulsion or denial of endorsement. Its platform explicitly names Jerusalem as the capital of a Palestinian state, hardcoding anti-Zionism as a fundamental tenet. This hostility is a proxy for animus toward Western civilization and American global leadership.

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Ryan statement came after the New York congressman voted to cut off all U.S. aid to Israel

Posted on July 17, 2026 by ArchitectGuy

JEWISH INSIDER
Pat Ryan says he’ll refund AIPAC donors who ask following vote to end U.S. aid to Israel
Matthew Kassel
July 17, 2026

Rep. Pat Ryan (D-NY) said that he no longer wants AIPAC’s endorsement and would be “returning the funds” the group’s PAC had sent his campaign, following his vote on Wednesday, along with 102 other Democrats, to cut off all aid to Israel. The New York Democrat also said he would refund individual donors who had previously supported his campaign if they made the request. “I expect groups like AIPAC will not support me in my future elections and frankly, I don’t want their support,” he wrote in a social media post explaining his vote, saying he would no longer back $3.3 billion in annual military aid to “a corrupt and increasingly dangerous Netanyahu regime. READ MORE

JEWISH INSIDER AIPAC ends fundraising for endorsees who voted to cut off Israel aid Days after 104 members of Congress voted in favor of a measure that sought to end U.S. aid to Israel, AIPAC will no longer allow donations through its political action committee to 18 lawmakers it endorsed who voted in favor of the legislation. The group did not announce the change. But the endorsement page on AIPAC’s political giving portal — where supporters can donate to candidates who have been endorsed by AIPAC — removed the option for individuals to route money to those lawmakers.

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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 17, 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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“Senator Graham “more pro-Israel than AIPAC,” while CUFl counted him among Israel’s most stalwart allies in Congress”

Posted on July 16, 2026 by ArchitectGuy

NOON IN ISRAEL
Israel Loses Its Greatest Friend on Capitol Hill
Amit Segal
July 12, 2026

It’s Sunday, July 12, and this morning the office of South Carolina Sen. Lindsey Graham announced that he passed away Saturday evening after a sudden and brief illness—two days after turning 71. He had returned from Kyiv on Friday, where he met Volodymyr Zelensky, and was booked on Meet the Press for this very morning. Israel has lost its greatest friend on Capitol Hill. That isn’t an exaggeration; it’s the consensus of the Israeli opposition and coalition, who rose in unison this morning to eulogize the beloved senator. Born and raised in his beloved South Carolina, Graham grew up living in a cramped room behind his parents’ combined pool hall, bar and liquor store. Later becoming a lawyer and enlisting in the U.S. military, he entered Congress in 1995, becoming the first Republican to represent South Carolina’s 3rd District since Reconstruction. In 2003, he moved up to the Senate, where he and John McCain became a trio with Joe Lieberman—dubbed the “Three Amigos” by Gen. David Petraeus on one of their endless trips to Iraq and Afghanistan. Hawks, travelers and crossers of aisles for wars worth fighting. Especially Israel’s. READ

NEW YORK POST Lindsey Graham had among the lowest wealth in Congress despite a lifetime at the center of power The late Sen. Lindsey Graham ranked among the bottom half of Congress’ big earners despite more than three decades in office and a top role leading the GOP. Graham, 71, died Saturday night with a net worth of nearly $1.5 million, leaving the senator, who had a modest upbringing in South Carolina, ranked at 294th in wealth among the 535 voting members of Congress, according to data from the Quiver Quantitative tracker. As a point of contrast, Graham’s personal wealth is a drop compared to Congress’ wealthiest member, fellow Sen. James Justice (R-WV), whose net worth is estimated at more than $664 million, according to Quiver Quantitative. 

THE HILL FBI visits Graham’s DC home FBI personnel visited late Sen. Lindsey Graham’s (R-S.C.) home in Washington, D.C., on Monday, less than 48 hours after he died of an aortic dissection.  At least six men and two women in FBI gear were at Graham’s row house in the Capitol Hill neighborhood of D.C., according to footage shot by Nexstar’s Vinay Simlot. At one point, an FBI agent entered the home after a man wearing a U.S. Marshals Service jacket exited it. Later on, two agents wearing blue and yellow FBI windbreakers entered the home. While agents went into and out of the home, a man wearing an FBI jacket stood watch outside near a large black container — at one point, another man wearing bureau gear retrieved a manila folder from the container. 

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“The House Armed Services Committee Democrat said his family’s home was vandalized and a staffer was assaulted over his stance on Israel policy”

Posted on July 16, 2026 by ArchitectGuy

JEWISH INSIDER
Smith says he was pressured to vote against Israel aid by violent, far-left activists
Matthew Shea
July 16, 2026

Rep. Adam Smith (D-WA), the top Democrat on the House Armed Services Committee, indicated  he voted to cut off military aid to Israel in part because of sustained personal threats against his family and his staff, part of what  he described as a violent and relentless campaign of intimidation by far-left anti-Israel activists. Smith voted on Wednesday to support an amendment introduced by Rep. Thomas Massie (R-KY) to strip $3.3 billion in U.S. aid to Israel from the 2027 State Department appropriations bill — a major reversal by the hawkish Democrat after he previously told Jewish Insider he planned to oppose the measure….“To date, my family and I have had our home vandalized, a fire has been set in my driveway, my neighbors’ lives have been disrupted by demonstrations in the middle of the night, town halls meant to be forums for dialogue have been shut down, and a staff member has been physically assaulted,” Smith said in a statement on X. READ MORE

THE HILL 100 House Democrats vote to cut off aid to Israel, showcasing party shift House Democrats split nearly evenly on a Wednesday amendment to cut off U.S. aid to Israel, showcasing how the contentious issue is reshaping the political dynamics in the party. The amendment spearheaded by Rep. Thomas Massie (R-Ky.) was presumed to be a doomed show vote, but it provided a test for Democrats who have been increasingly under pressure from the activist base over Israel. The amendment failed 104-314-10, with 103 Democrats voting in favor, 98 Democrats voting against, and 10 voting present. Massie was the only Republican who supported the amendment.

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Democratic congressman Ro Khanna has been pandering to the anti-Israel left for months. In a podcast interview this week, he realized what his new bedfellows actually believe.

Posted on July 15, 2026 by ArchitectGuy

FREE PRESS
Ro Khanna’s Rude Awakening
Eli Lake
July 15, 2026

Winston Churchill remarked in 1940 that an appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile in the hopes that it will eat him last. On Tuesday, Rep. Ro Khanna proved the great man’s point yet again in an appearance on the Drop Site News podcast. Like seemingly almost everything in American politics this year, the conversation was all about Gaza. The interview with one of the most pro-Hamas outlets in U.S. media should have been a victory lap for Khanna, who last week grabbed headlines for a stunt where he claimed he was detained by the Israel Defense Forces after local settlers pulled over his entourage in a once-restricted area of the West Bank. Khanna has reinvented himself during the last year to curry favor with the populist fringe of his Democratic Party, devoting himself to the cause of releasing law enforcement files on Jeffrey Epstein and casting himself a defender of the forgotten working class. Once a proud supporter of the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC), Khanna is now one of the pro-Israel group’s leading opponents. READ MORE

JNS Paul Miller: Why I will no longer fight for the LGBTQ community To the LGBTQ movement, I must now say that, because of my Judaism, I was given an opportunity to show my love in the most personal way. But ironically, for the same reason, I can no longer stand with you. When “intersectionality” entered the mainstream in the 2010s, historically disenfranchised and oppressed groups banded together to embrace inclusion, diversity and social justice. Yet the most persecuted group in human history, people who endure the systemic racism built into humanity itself, are not only excluded but also recategorized to fit this new narrative. Jews are now classified as privileged colonizers and oppressors. The progressive movement, in which the LGBTQ community plays an integral role, has become a regressive campaign that embraces exclusion and antisemitism…As a Jew, I can no longer stand with a movement that is antisemitic and anti-Israel at its core.

JNS Jonathan Tobin: Ro Khanna and the weaponization of anti-Zionism in American politics The California congressman’s Judean misadventure was an attempt to boost his long-shot presidential hopes and move on from his sponsorship of the disastrous Graham Platner.simply reported on his story without investigating the events that led up to the incident.

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“We have the agency our ancestors could only long for and the sovereignty they could only pray for. We can shape what happens next”

Posted on July 14, 2026 by ArchitectGuy

TABLET MAG
We Are the Luckiest Jews Who Have Ever Lived
Ben Freeman
July 13, 2026

For three years we have watched Jew-hatred erupt on campus, online, inside political movements, and among people we once called friends. Institutions we helped build, funded, and sat on the boards of have turned away from us and showed us exactly what they were made of: incubators of old hatred now decked with new jargon. Many of us feel betrayed and bewildered. But rather than wallow in sadness, recognize that these betrayals provide us with information. These institutions were not always rotten; something in them changed over the last decade: Principle was traded for donor comfort, standards for slogans, scrutiny for the easier feeling of being on the right side of a hashtag. Oct. 7 did not create that rot. It was the storm that hit at the exact moment the hull had already given out, and the whole world got to see which vessels were still seaworthy. Ours went down first, because they had already been rotting for years. Throwing us over the side was simply what they did to survive a little longer. READ MORE

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