Families of Bondi Beach massacre: “We need to know why clear warning signs were ignored, how antisemitic hatred and Islamic extremism were allowed to dangerously grow unchecked, and what changes must be made”

Posted on January 7, 2026 by ArchitectGuy

COMMENTARY
The Question of Jewish Armed Self-Defense
Seth Mandel
January 6, 2026

In the wake of the Bondi Beach massacre, Hugh Hewitt asked me during a segment on his show whether I thought Jews should arm themselves. I responded that Jews in America are indeed, in increasing numbers, following Vladimir Jabotinsky’s exhortation to “learn to shoot,” though in Australia that choice is foreclosed by the country’s famously restrictive firearm regulations. The freedom to make that choice is what’s most important, because it is a sign of a political system that values individual rights and requires a degree of humility on the part of the state. Australia’s national government, currently led by the cold, feckless Prime Minister Anthony Albanese, exudes neither humility nor a respect for individual citizens. The result is not just atrocities like Bondi Beach but the flagrant mishandling of its aftermath and the robotic adherence to the status quo that produced the tragedy in the first place. READ MORE

DAILY MAIL Anthony Albanese is slammed as disturbing detail emerges in resurfaced footage of PM at a pro-Palestine rally Anthony Albanese has been slammed over old footage of him attending a pro-Palestinian protest while flags belonging to terror groups were being waved near him. Grainy footage, which first resurfaced two years ago, showed the future Prime Minister condemning the actions of the Israeli military during a protest at Martin Place in Sydney’s CBD back in 2000. It showed him standing in the crowd, where a Hezbollah flag was seen being waved metres away. He also addressed attendees with a megaphone to condemn Israel’s actions. 

YOUTUBE Image surfaces of Anthony Albanese meeting with late Palestinian president Yasser Arafat “Sources who knew Albanese at the time told me he was starry-eyed and fawning at the prospect of meeting Yasser Arafat,” she said.  “As I mentioned, the group did not meet with the then Israeli Prime Minister or Israeli President – at the time, Albanese was an activist for the Palestinian cause.” 

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“If Mamdani’s bigotry and obsessive hate of Israel don’t seem to bother most New Yorkers and even many Jews, then it illustrates how prejudice has become mainstreamed”

Posted on January 7, 2026 by ArchitectGuy

JNS
What normalizing antisemitism looks like
Jonathan Tobin
January 8, 2026

What does it look like when you normalize antisemitism rather than making it something that only exists on the margins of society? In the more than two years since the Hamas-led Palestinian attacks in Israel on Oct. 7, 2023, American Jews have seen hatred directed against them steadily portrayed as not just a reasonable argument but the work of idealists who oppose a mythical “genocide” perpetrated by “white” oppressors and their supporters. We are now at the point where the views of those who feel that one Jewish state on the planet is one too many—while encouraging terrorism and even contemplating the genocide of Israelis—are considered acceptable public discourse. And many non-Jews and even a sizable minority of Jews in New York City think anyone aware of this should just stop complaining about it. That’s the only conclusion to be drawn from a new poll of New Yorkers that fully demonstrates that Jews are officially being marginalized while antisemites have moved into the mainstream. READ MORE

ALGEMEINER When Standards Disappear: What the Mamdani Reversals Reveal About Jewish Political Vulnerability When New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani took office, he pledged to “protect our Jewish neighbors.” Within hours of taking power and very deliberately, he reversed two policies that many Jewish New Yorkers had reasonably understood as core safeguards: New York City’s adoption of the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA) working definition of antisemitism, and restrictions barring city officials from participating in boycotts or divestment campaigns against Israel.

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“ADL will have to give up on its previous tactics of forming useless alliances and adopting counterproductive universalist causes that, at best, gain the Jews nothing”

Posted on January 7, 2026 by ArchitectGuy

NO DELUSIONS, NO DESPAIR
The ADL must transform
Benjamin Kerstein
January 7, 2025

…So, the question is: What will the ADL do now? A very large number of Jews are asking this question. Indeed, they ask me this question all the time, particularly since the publication of my book on Jewish self-defense. Beneath the question lies a seething anger: Where is the ADL? they ask. Why aren’t they protecting us? Why aren’t they fighting? Why aren’t they there for us? Where are they? These are all reasonable queries. After all, in the end, the ADL has one job, which is to protect American Jews from antisemitism. In this task, it has manifestly failed. The evidence is everywhere. The antisemitic Islamist-progressive Red-Green Alliance is rising to the heights of national politics. An open antisemite has been elected mayor of New York. “Protesters” still hold their antisemitic hate rallies on a regular basis, including outside synagogues. Jews continue to be harassed and assaulted. Several murders of both Jews and non-Jews have been committed by progressive and Muslim antisemites. READ MORE

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“Steven Spielberg’s Righteous Persons Foundation supports anti-Israel groups despite Zionism being the number-one protection against another Holocaust”

Posted on January 5, 2026 by ArchitectGuy

FUTURE OF JEWISH
Using Holocaust Money to Demonize Israel
Daniel Greenfield
January 5, 2025

…Since 2020, the [Spielberg’s] Righteous Persons Foundation has provided $2.4 million to anti-Israel groups while spending only $125,000 on Holocaust projects. During a time of surging antisemitism, he has provided a fraction of the funds to groups fighting antisemitism than he has to the groups defending antisemites and denouncing Israel for defending itself against Jihadist genocide. Steven Spielberg is entitled to spend his money however he wants, but the audiences that helped make “Schindler’s List” a hit were under the impression that the profits would be used to help Holocaust survivors and, in Spielberg’s words, to “try to teach the facts of the past to prevent another Holocaust in the future.” Instead he’s funding groups enabling another Holocaust. READ MORE

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CAMERA warns against news reports which seek to erase or sanitize the phrase by erasing the violent history of the Palestinian intifadas in which hundreds of innocent Israeli civilians were brutally murdered.

Posted on January 4, 2026 by ArchitectGuy

CAMERA BLOG
PRESS ADVISORY: CAMERA Reminds Media That ‘Globalize the Intifada’ Is a Call for Violence Against Jews Everywhere
December 22, 2025

A week after the ISIS-inspired Bondi Beach massacre, in which terrorists murdered 15 civilians at a Chanukah celebration, the Committee for Accuracy in Middle East Reporting and Analysis (CAMERA) calls on international news outlets to clearly and forthrightly report on the meaning of the “Globalize the Intifada” chant, which incites attacks against Jews across the globe.  The phrase “Globalize the Intifada,” a staple at worldwide anti-Israel demonstrations over the last two years, invokes the Palestinian intifadas in which hundreds of Israeli civilians were murdered in suicide bombings, shootings and stabbings. It is therefore a call for the targeting of Jewish communities globally. In recognition of the threat posed by this slogan, the government of the Australian state of New South Wales has moved in recent days to ban this language. Similarly, on Dec. 17, police in Manchester and London outlawed the phrase from demonstrations in those cities. READ MORE

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“Mamdani and Carlson Decry the “Zionist” Invasion of Venezuela”

Posted on January 4, 2026 by ArchitectGuy

SPECTATOR AUSTRALIA
The hypocrisy of the Maduro fanclub
Brendan O’Neill
January 6, 2026

…The hypocrisy of the Maduro fanclub has really been brought home by the response of Hamas itself. It has slammed America’s ‘abduction’ of Maduro, calling it a ‘grave violation of international law’. Where to begin? These Nazi-lite kidnappers of more than 200 Jews really think they can lecture others about the immorality of cross-border abduction? These are hitherto untapped levels of cant. At least the US will treat Maduro with dignity, rather than starving and torturing him in an underground den. Iran, too, has condemned the ‘illegal’ kidnapping of Maduro. Listen, if you send proxy armies of anti-Semites to kidnap Jews, and lock up young women for the crime of yearning for freedom, nobody wants to hear your thoughts on ‘criminal aggression’. China is calling on the US to free Maduro. How about you free the Uyghur people first from the iron fist of your ruthless ‘re-education’?  READ MORE

NEW ZIONIST TIMES Anti-Zionism’s Odd Couple Embraces Maduro That didn’t take long. Hours after the bombing of Caracas and Maduro’s capture, Venezuelan Vice President Delcy Rodriguez claimed the operation had a “Zionist tint”. Some might think that Operation Southern Spear is a resounding victory for freedom, a devastating takedown of a key cog in the global narco-terrorism network. New York City Mayor Mamdani, who by now must be recognized as the leader of the Left (and the Democratic Socialists of America), is already mobilizing protests against yet another example of Israeli imperialism.

FUTURE OF JEWISH The Desperate Politics of Blaming Zionists From Venezuela to New York City, leaders scapegoat Zionism whenever failure strikes and success becomes a crime. It’s no surprise that, in moments of crisis, embattled regimes reach for a mythic antagonist — one powerful enough to explain failure, humiliation, or loss of control. For Venezuela’s leadership, “Zionism” has become that antagonist: a cipher for competence, coordination, Western power and, most dangerously, success.

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Former mayor, Eric Adams, said Weaver was, quote, ‘out of her f—ing mind.’ That was in response to a resurfaced tweet when she said homeownership was a “tool of White supremacy”

Posted on January 3, 2026 by ArchitectGuy

NEW YORK POST
Zohran Mamdani’s new NYC tenant advocate called to ‘seize private property,’ blasted homeownership as ‘white supremacy’
Carl Campanile
January 4, 2026

Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s newly appointed tenant advocate called to “seize private property” and blasted homeownership as a “weapon of white supremacy” in a series of pro-Communist social media posts. Cea Weaver, Mamdani’s new director of the city Office to Protect Tenants, made the statements and urged her followers to elect more Communists in several lecturing posts on her now-deleted X account that were unearthed by internet sleuths. “Seize private property!” she said on June 13, 2018.“…“Private property including any kind of ESPECIALLY homeownership is a weapon of white supremacy,” she said then. Weaver also pushed to “Elect more communists” in December 2017 — when a Harlem street corner was being renamed in honor of former Manhattan Rep. Vito Marcantonio, who was a Communist. READ MORE

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Traiman: “The relationship between Trump and Netanyahu is very strong. There is complete alignment on Hamas, Hezbollah, Syria and Iran. And Trump’s fondness toward Israel remains unshakable”

Posted on January 1, 2026 by ArchitectGuy

JNS
Deciphering the multi-layered Trump-Netanyahu meeting at Mar-a-Lago
Alex Traiman
December 30, 2025

In a pre-New Year’s meeting at Mar-a-Lago, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and U.S. President Donald Trump demonstrated that when it comes to U.S.-Israel relations, there is little daylight and total admiration between the two allies. This factor holds particularly true regarding the nations’ policies toward Iran, Hezbollah and Hamas. Key differences remain. And that is not only normal but obvious, due to the extremely divergent strategic positions of the world’s strongest superpower situated between two oceans, and a Jewish state roughly the size of New Jersey in a neighborhood surrounded by Islamic radicals. The meeting could not have come at a more important juncture for Israel. Phase 1 of a three-month-old ceasefire brokered by Washington—and based on key provisions proffered by Jerusalem—has proven itself to be a stunning initial success. That Phase 2 will prove to be as successful is less likely. READ MORE

ISRAEL HAYOM Amit Segal: Netanyahu or Bennett? The quiet battle inside the White House A quiet struggle is taking place inside the White House over Netanyahu. Jared Kushner, for example, is far from an enthusiastic supporter of the prime minister. Steve Witkoff holds an even more negative view of him. One can reasonably assume that the sharp (and in hindsight very inaccurate) briefings against Netanyahu ahead of this week’s meeting in Mar-a-lago came from those quarters. There are powerful figures in the American administration who would very much like to see a different Israeli prime minister — for personal reasons as well as ideological ones. But even larger parts of the administration — Secretary of State Rubio, Defense Secretary Hegseth, Ambassador Huckabee, and others — remain full-on Likudniks, if not further to the right of it. And where does Trump stand? In polls, he has been classified as “leaning Likud.”

COMMENTARY  Seth Mandel: Mike Waltz on Gaza, Iran, and Keeping the UN in Check Mike Waltz is having an unusual experience as the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, a job that does not usually come with a honeymoon phase. Yet the former congressman and national security adviser took office in September and a mere two months later the Security Council gave the Trump administration a big win by passing a resolution affirming the president’s plan for postwar Gaza. As a result, Waltz may be America’s first UN ambassador in some time to describe the atmosphere there, at least for now, as “pleasant.”

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“Inasmuch as Somaliland doesn’t want to be part of Somalia, it also doesn’t seek to destroy Somalia like the Palestinians want to destroy Israel”

Posted on December 31, 2025 by ArchitectGuy

ISRAEL HAYOM (by agreement with JNS)
Somaliland vs. ‘Palestine’
Jason Shvili
December 30, 2025

The State of Israel has become the first member state of the United Nations to recognize the Republic of Somaliland – a courageous and morally correct decision by the government of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu…Somaliland is strategically located in the Gulf of Aden, along the Bab El-Mandeb Strait, across from Yemen, which hosts the Houthis, the Iran-backed terrorist group that has attacked Israel on numerous occasions, and has harassed commercial shipping in the area. Access to Somaliland gives Israel a potential strategic point from which to protect its interests, vis-à-vis threats from Iran, its proxies, and other rival countries that maintain a presence in the region. Israel’s decision to establish full diplomatic relations with Somaliland does not constitute a violation of international law, nor does it present a threat to peace. READ MORE

JPOST Israel steps in to defend Somaliland recognition move at UN amid concerns over Gaza motives Israel’s recognition of Somaliland gives it a potential strategic partner countering Yemen’s Houthis, who during the Gaza war traded blows with Israel and whose attacks on vessels in the Red Sea have disrupted shipping there.

JEWISH INSIDER Israel’s Somaliland recognition rattles Qatar and other critics Jerusalem’s recognition of Somaliland — strategically positioned across the Gulf of Aden from Houthi-controlled parts of Yemen — has left some regional governments on the defensive as Jerusalem moves first

ARUTZ SHEVA US envoy: Israel has full right to recognize Somaliland At the UN Security Council, the US deputy envoy defends Israel’s right to recognize Somaliland and criticizes the Council’s double standards toward the Jewish state.

JNS Somaliland denies Israeli recognition based on accepting Gazans, IDF base Somaliland accepted three conditions in exchange for the recognition, he claimed, saying Hargeisa agreed to take in Palestinians from Gaza, allow the establishment of an Israeli military base on the coast of the Gulf of Aden and join the Abraham Accords peace deal.

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“Newly sworn-in NYC Mayor Mamdani revokes all Adams orders issued after his indictment, including the IHRA definition and an anti‑boycott rule”

Posted on December 31, 2025 by ArchitectGuy

ARUTZ SHEVA
Mamdani scraps Adams’ Israel‑related orders, keeps antisemitism office
January 2, 2026

Newly sworn-in New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani on Thursday afternoon issued an executive order revoking all executive orders signed by his predecessor, Eric Adams, after September 26, 2024, the date of Adams’ indictment. The move means that among the orders to be cancelled was one signed by Adams in June of 2025 formally recognizing the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance’s (IHRA) working definition of antisemitism. Another executive order to be cancelled, signed by the now-former Mayor last month, prohibited mayoral appointees and agency staff from boycotting and disinvesting from Israel…Mamdani has faced criticism for his policies and particularly for his anti-Israel stance, after refusing to disavow the phrase “globalize the intifada,” and for criticizing Israel on October 8, 2023 – just one day after the Hamas massacre in southern Israel. He has repeatedly accused Israel of war crimes in its battle against Hamas in Gaza, and has vowed to arrest Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu if he visits New York City. READ MORE

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