“The career of the retiring Manhattan congressman demonstrates the way partisan Democrats have abandoned support of Israel for leftist applause”

Posted on September 3, 2025 by ArchitectGuy

JNS
Jerry Nadler and the moral collapse of American Jewish liberals
Jonathan Tobin
September 3, 2025

…Nadler showed that his priority was staying in sync with the leftist base of his party and not in defending Jews during the unprecedented surge in antisemitism post-Oct. 7. He defended prominent Jew-haters like Mahmoud Khalil, organizer of the pro-Hamas mobs at Columbia University, in his own district. He opposed administration efforts to force Columbia and other universities to end their toleration and encouragement of antisemitism on their campuses. And, even as he declared himself to still be a supporter of Israel, he joined those who were mainstreaming Hamas propaganda about the current war, as well as echoing the blood libels about the Jewish state and its government being guilty of mass slaughter and war crimes, even supporting an arms embargo on it. READ MORE

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“If other countries want to impose a Palestinian terror state on Israel, then Israel will have to do what it has to do”

Posted on September 3, 2025 by ArchitectGuy

FUTURE OF JEWISH
Israel has every right to annex the West Bank.
Joshua Hoffman
September 2, 2025

…The harsh truth is this: If Palestinians wanted their own state, they would have one by now. They have turned down every serious offer for peace and statehood — 1936, 1947, 1967, 2000, 2008, and 2014 — because every offer required accepting a Jewish state alongside them. The reality is that Palestinian leadership does not want a state of their own; they want the destruction of Israel. The infantilization of the Palestinian people by the global community — treating them as perpetual victims incapable of agency — is both absurd and insulting. They are not the only people in the world to face displacement or hardship, yet they are the only people treated as if they need other countries to do their bargaining and bidding for them. The Arab world controls one-sixth of the planet’s wealth, yet somehow Palestinians are uniquely helpless? READ MORE

VOICE OF ZION Reclaiming Every Inch: Judea, Samaria, Gaza – No Apologies For decades, the world – and weak-willed leaders among us – pressured Israel to compromise, to cede land, to “take risks for peace.” We tried. Oslo, Camp David, Gaza disengagement – all of it led only to more Jewish blood and global indifference. The experiment of appeasement is over. October 7 proved beyond any doubt that every concession is seen as weakness and every pause is used to sharpen the enemy’s knives.

FDD Turkey Announces Severing of Economic Ties With Israel, Closes Skies to Israeli Aircraft Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan said on August 29 that Ankara had closed the country’s airspace to Israeli aircraft as a protest against Israel’s continued military campaign against the Hamas terrorist organization in Gaza. Turkey previously prevented Israeli President Isaac Herzog’s plane from using the country’s airspace in November while he flew to a summit in Azerbaijan, but Friday’s statement in front of the Turkish parliament was the first time Ankara had declared the total exclusion of Israeli aircraft from Turkish airspace.

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United Airlines announces it will restart flights between Tel Aviv and Washington, DC, as well as Chicago beginning November 1, 2025

Posted on September 2, 2025 by ArchitectGuy

ISRAEL HAYOM (by agreement with JNS)
United Airlines to resume flights from Chicago and Washington to Tel Aviv
September 4, 2025

United Airlines announced Thursday that it will restart flights between Tel Aviv and Washington, DC, as well as Chicago beginning November 1, 2025, using Boeing 787-8 Dreamliner aircraft. From Chicago, the carrier will operate four weekly round-trip flights, while Washington will see three weekly flights, restoring the same schedule that was in place before service was suspended on October 7, 2023. Tickets go on sale tonight. Patrick Quayle, a senior executive at United, said the resumption of service underscores the airline’s long-standing commitment to Tel Aviv…United is also expanding its kosher meal options, adding fresh kosher meals on long-haul flights from Chicago and considering introducing kosher food at its Polaris lounge at O’Hare International Airport, a potential added draw for the route. READ MORE

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The father of Hersh Goldberg-Polin writes about leading services for the first time since his son was killed in captivity in Gaza.

Posted on September 2, 2025 by ArchitectGuy

JTA
Last Shabbat in my Jerusalem synagogue, I began to see our complex world anew</
Jon Polin
September 4, 2025

…During my year of mourning since our son Hersh was killed in captivity in Gaza, I accepted the custom to not lead prayer services as the shaliach tzibbur on Shabbat or holidays. I’m not a particularly good shaliach tzibbur anyway, but I am generally willing. When Aharon the gabbai (who organizes the services) approached me as I was absorbing the photos and teachings on the wall and asked me if I would lead the opening part of the service, the Psukei D’zimra, I was thrown momentarily. I hadn’t performed any formal task at my synagogue since the cursed morning of Oct. 7, 2023, when I was in the role that Aharon is in today, gabbai. Was I now ready to take this step out of formal mourning? “OK,” I said, and I got up and started. “Rabbi Yishmael says on 13 principles the Torah is interpreted…” READ MORE

TIMES OF ISRAEL Hersh Goldberg-Polin’s father asks Netanyahu to stop ‘taking credit’ for his return Polin added that before Hersh’s murder, “a negotiated deal was possible to release a number of hostages, including Hersh and at least three others of the five with whom he was held,” and blames Netanyahu for instead deciding to “continue with the risky military operation in Rafah.” That decision, he said, led to the execution by their captors of Hersh and the five hostages he was held with — Carmel Gat, Ori Danino, Almog Sarusi, Eden Yerushalmi, and Alex Lobanov.

YNET ‘Let leaders decide who in their family will suffer hunger and torture in a tunnel—or take their place’ Despite the relentless toll of their grief clock, they do not shy away from words. Instead, they face, with a kind of reverent fear, the weighty questions that have been forced upon them—just like the reality they never chose, since that cursed morning when terrified children huddled in a shelter that became a death trap. They have no privilege of escape, no way to flee a calendar closing in on them: on one side, news of the looming operation to capture Gaza City; on the other, the first memorial marking the day their son was murdered by his captors.

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Those seeking to become “genocide scholars” inundated the website, with some applying as Nazi Leader Adolf Hitler or Star Wars villain Emperor Palpatine

Posted on September 2, 2025 by ArchitectGuy

JPOST
‘Genocide scholars’ for $30? Easy entry, fake members undermine confidence in IAGS resolution
Michael Starr
September 4, 2025

Activists have brought into question the credibility of a new International Association of Genocide Scholars (IAGS) resolution declaring Israel to be engaged in genocide, with the discovery that admission into the organization could be obtained for $30, and its membership had spiked since October 2023. Until Wednesday, applicants could purchase an annual membership subscription according to their income bracket… Honest Reporting Board member Salo Aizenberg and Middle East analyst Eitan Fischberger demonstrated on social media the ease of joining the association on Wednesday, leading to a wave of applications…“It turns out literally anyone can join this body and vote on matters that make international headlines – like the resolution claiming Israel is committing genocide…” READ MORE

JEWISH JOURNAL Micha Danzig: Dear Mayim, Compassion Without Clarity Helps Hamas You are right: these are dark days. But they are dark because Hamas dragged Israel and Gaza into hell. If peace is truly your prayer, then clarity about cause and responsibility must be part of that prayer. Otherwise, calls to “end the war” become calls to leave Hamas in power — guaranteeing more tragedy, more suffering, and no safety for anyone. That would condemn both Israelis and Gazans to endless bloodshed. All people with public voices, but particularly Jews, have a moral responsibility to speak with clarity at such a moment: this is a just war. 

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Megyn Kelly Faces Backlash Over ‘Vicious Anti-Israel Lies’ in MTG Interview

Posted on September 1, 2025 by ArchitectGuy

JFEED
Megyn Kelly Goes Over To The Dark Side
Gila Isaacson
August 20, 2025

A fiery interview on The Megyn Kelly Show featuring Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) has erupted into a major controversy, with critics accusing the host and guest of spreading “vicious anti-Israel lies” about the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) and U.S. aid to Israel. Aired yesterday (Tuesday), the segment titled “The Truth About AIPAC and the Israel Lobby’s Power in Washington” has drawn sharp rebuke from X user Yehuda Teitelbaum (@chalavyishmael) who slammed Kelly for giving Greene a platform to peddle “blatantly false claims” that echo antisemitic conspiracies. During the interview, Greene launched a scathing attack on AIPAC, claiming it “controls Congress” through lobbying and trips for lawmakers, while arguing that the $3.8 billion in annual U.S. aid to Israel is an unjustifiable burden on a broke America. READ MORE

MEDIAITE ‘Grifters Gonna Grift’: Conservatives Torch Megyn Kelly for Hopping on ‘The Anti-Israel Bandwagon’ With Marjorie Taylor Greene “There’s a worldwide unrelenting information war against the Jewish people, and it’s working. Why do you consider it so bad that people encouraged you, someone with a big platform, to go to Israel to see for yourself?” wondered Legal Insurrection’s William Jacobson. “This was disappointing.”

OPEN SECRETS Ranking of the top 100 organizations which make political contributions AIPAC (American Israel Public Affairs Committee) ranks #63 in this Top 100 list with gross political contributions of $65,511,480 (to Democrats and Republicans) for all election cycles 1990-2024.

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New measures would prevent Palestinians from Samaria and Judea from entering US

Posted on September 1, 2025 by ArchitectGuy

JNS
US imposes blanket visa ban on PA travel document holders
September 1, 2025

The Trump administration has issued broad additional restrictions on visa applications by holders of Palestinian Authority travel documents, The New York Times reported on Sunday, citing four American officials. The measures, said to have been announced in an Aug. 18 cable sent to all U.S. diplomatic missions, would prevent Palestinians from Samaria and Judea from entering America, including for medical treatment, university studies, visits to friends or relatives and business travel. The new policy reportedly goes beyond the suspension of all visitor visas for Palestinians from the Gaza Strip, which was announced on Aug. 16. READ MORE

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“To those “journalists” who are active members of Hamas and participated in the October 7 massacre, and who they worked for — you’re not fooling us anymore”

Posted on September 1, 2025 by ArchitectGuy

HOT AIR
What Counts As a ‘Journalist’ in Gaza
David Strom
August 27, 2025

I have to admit that I have little idea of what is real and what is not in Gaza. That’s not because I don’t read the news or follow the social media discussions about the war. It’s because everything coming out of the Strip is propaganda, and anything you read in the Pravda Media is so biased that I just assume it is a lie…Just as Pravda Media doesn’t tell you the story behind the pictures they show you, they fail to inform you that the “journalists” based in Gaza are either Hamas operatives or Hamas allies. I have written many times about this, and will do so in the future. Because we will be bombarded by stories about Israel targeting journalists in the war, without being told that those “journalists” are often Hamas fighters as well. READ MORE

CHRISTIAN POST Former AP reporter on media bias toward Israel after Oct. 7 Inside Gaza, [Matti] Friedman says Western outlets have long operated under Hamas restrictions — or worse, the terror group’s influence. “Since 2008 … the press has been essentially an amplifier for one of the most poisonous ideologies on earth. All of the information from Gaza comes from people who either identify with Hamas, are intimidated by Hamas, or belong to Hamas.”

FREE PRESS Editors: Journalists Against Journalism Our critics can call us any name they like. That doesn’t change the facts. For the Gaza information warriors, it’s not enough to acknowledge that there is hunger in Gaza. No. It must be premeditated genocide. Introducing facts into the discourse that complicate that judgment is condemned as genocide denial. Whatever one wants to call this kind of discourse, it’s certainly not the work of journalists.

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Traditional first-line treatments for PTSD, such as medication and talk therapy, succeed less than half the time. In contrast, Stella reports a success rate of 68% to 78%. 

Posted on August 29, 2025 by ArchitectGuy

MEDIA LINE
Could a Simple Injection Rewire PTSD in Israel?
Maayan Hoffman
August 24, 2025

…Jason Blankfield, special forces IDF combat veteran and Stella general manager, explained to The Media Line that the way PTSD is understood has shifted dramatically over the last decade. For years, it was viewed as “a problem of the soul” or strictly a mental health disorder. But growing research and advances in imaging technology show that trauma also triggers measurable biological changes that contribute to the development and persistence of PTSD symptoms. The Stella treatment targets those physical pathways. Using ultrasound guidance, a pain specialist or anesthesiologist injects a small amount of local anesthetic into two nerve bundles at the base of the neck. These nerves are central to the feedback loop between the brain and the sympathetic nervous system, which controls the body’s fight-or-flight response. READ MORE

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Inside the civil war between the Ivy League and the South

Posted on August 29, 2025 by ArchitectGuy

THE ATLANTIC
The Elite-University Presidents Who Despise One Another
Rose Horowitch
August 11, 2025

The leaders of America’s elite universities are required, by the borderline-masochistic, semi-impossible nature of their job, to be skilled in the art of performative comity. So it was a bit of a shock when, at the end of an April panel discussion, Princeton President Christopher Eisgruber turned on the chancellors of Vanderbilt and Washington University in St. Louis, all but accusing them of carrying water for the Trump administration. Eisgruber argued that higher education was facing a politically motivated attack, and that the two men were inadvertently making matters worse by agreeing with President Donald Trump, against the evidence, that the sector had grown illiberal and out of touch with mainstream America. The chancellors, taken aback by the public confrontation, countered that the struggles of a handful of Ivy League schools were dragging down the reputation of America’s heavyweight research institutions. READ MORE

NEW YORK POST Northwestern President Michael Schill resigns after tenure rocked by protests, $800M Trump funding freeze, hazing scandal Northwestern University president Michael Schill has resigned following a tumultuous tenure marked by a hazing scandal, calls for resignation over campus antisemitism and nearly $800 million in funds frozen by the Trump administration…During a series of tense exchanges, panel members, including House Republican conference chair Elise Stefanik (R-NY), ripped Schill for receiving an “F” grade in fighting antisemitism from the Anti-Defamation League, which has called for his ouster.

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