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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“Under a doctrine known as takfir, these jihadis excommunicate and, on many occasions, kill Muslims who decline to toe their theological line”

Posted on December 31, 2025 by ArchitectGuy

FDD
The many shades of Islam
Clifford D. May
December 31, 2025

…It was not until the 1920s, in the aftermath of World War I, that the Ottoman Empire collapsed and the last Ottoman caliph, Abdülmecid II, boarded the Orient Express at a station near Istanbul, heading for exile among the unbelievers of Europe. Hassan al-Banna, an Egyptian school teacher, saw this as a historic tragedy. In 1928, he founded the Muslim Brotherhood. Its mission was – and still is – to reestablish Islamic supremacy and domination everywhere and anywhere. Since then, Brotherhood theologians have provided inspiration to pretty much every group committed to waging jihad against Jews, Christians, Hindus, and others. Those “others” include Muslims who decline to embrace the jihadis’ reading of Islam and the obligations the jihadis insist are incumbent upon Muslims. READ MORE

NATIONAL POST Canada can no longer ignore its violent jihadist extremism problem Canada excels at interception. Now it must commit to prevention and uproot the conditions that allow this extremism to take hold. Recent arrests in the Greater Toronto Area of Waleed Khan, Osman Azizov, and Fahad Sadaat lay bare a disturbing truth that Canadians can no longer ignore: violent jihadist extremism is being cultivated and operationalized here.

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“Megyn Kelly’s recent comments cross a dangerous line”

Posted on December 31, 2025 by ArchitectGuy

NY POST
ADL accuses Megyn Kelly of using ‘antisemitic’ trope against Ben Shapiro, victim-blaming Bari Weiss
Ariel Zilber
December 25, 2025

The Anti-Defamation League accused Megyn Kelly of using an antisemitic trope against Ben Shapiro and victim-blaming Bari Weiss after Kelly outrageously claimed the two, who are Jewish, are causing antisemitism. The organization pointed to Kelly’s recent allegation that Shapiro, a prominent conservative commentator, and Weiss, the editor in chief of CBS News, are “making antisemites” by trying to silence criticism of Israel, as well as Kelly’s characterization of Shapiro as being “Israel first.” “Megyn Kelly’s recent comments cross a dangerous line. Accusing Jews of “making antisemites” blames Jewish people for the hate directed against them — a classic victim-blaming trope,” the ADL wrote on social media on Tuesday. READ MORE

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“Those on the Right who revile Israel and seek to undo the Israel-America alliance commonly insist that they do so out of devotion to America”

Posted on December 30, 2025 by ArchitectGuy

JEWS UNDER SIEGE
Hating Jews More Than Loving America
Kenneth Levin
December 29, 2025

…The overall perspective of American military strategists is that the military and related advantages derived from the alliance with Israel – including lessons drawn from Israeli battlefield experience with American weapons and related modifications of American weapons, other Israeli defense research and development readily available to America, the work of unique Israeli intelligence capabilities in the Middle East likewise readily available to America – very much more than offsets American outlays. Political echelons in the United States have generally shared this assessment. This perspective is, of course, reinforced by the general conviction that Israel and America face the same enemies; in particular, Islamist forces in the Middle East of both the Sunni and Shi’a variety. READ MORE

NO DELUSIONS NO DESPAIR Benjamin Kerstein: Antisemite vs. enabler?  The next presidential election will decide if American Jews have a future in the US. The rise of antisemitism on both the left and the right threatens American Jews with a pincer movement, one in which those on the commanding heights of American politics—on both sides—are a direct threat to the American Jewish future. I believe it is quite possible that this future will be decided by the 2028 presidential election. The Democratic nominee, judging by the almost total takeover of the party’s base by antisemitic forces, will almost certainly be, at the very least, either an apologist for antisemitism or an outright antisemite.

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“ChatGPT Advises Users On How To Attack A Sports Venue, Buy Nuclear Material On Dark Web, Weaponize Anthrax, Build Spyware, Bombs…”

Posted on December 30, 2025 by ArchitectGuy

GATESTONE
US High-Tech Companies Are Helping Terrorists to Weaponize AI
Robert Williams
December 30, 2025

Terrorist networks, not surprisingly, are focusing their efforts on weaponizing artificial intelligence (AI). A recent study by MEMRI discloses the use of artificial intelligence by Hamas, Al-Qaeda, the Islamic State (ISIS), the Houthis and Hezbollah, among others…The Associated Press reported on December 15: “Such groups spread fake images two years ago of the Israel-Hamas war depicting bloodied, abandoned babies in bombed-out buildings. The images spurred outrage and polarization while obscuring the war’s actual horrors. Violent groups in the Middle East used the photos to recruit new members, as did antisemitic hate groups in the U.S. and elsewhere.” READ MORE

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“A half-century-old theory that the Jewish state deliberately attacked the USS Liberty during the Six-Day War has renewed currency”

Posted on December 28, 2025 by ArchitectGuy

NATIONAL REVIEW
No, the USS Liberty Attack Wasn’t Israeli Treachery
Rich Lowry
December 23, 2025

For elements of the anti-Israel right, it’s a time when everything old is becoming new again. So, a half-century-old theory that the Jewish state deliberately attacked the USS Liberty during the Six-Day War has renewed currency. Conspiratorial-minded influencers hostile to Israel, like Tucker Carlson and Candace Owens, have promoted the notion, and it was a topic of discussion at the recent TPUSA conference. One speaker said that the official explanation “doesn’t feel like it’s good enough,” and floated his own wild speculation (involving the complicity of LBJ). The fact is that the devastating Israeli attack on the Liberty, killing 34 and wounding 171, was a woeful case of mistaken identification. The series of faulty judgments that led to the incident is so grievous that, taken altogether, it is, indeed, nearly incomprehensible. READ MORE

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“The Defense Ministry says Iron Beam is now operational at scale, offering low-cost laser interception of drones, rockets, missiles, and mortars, and reducing reliance on costly interceptors”

Posted on December 28, 2025 by ArchitectGuy

JPOST
Defense Ministry rolls out Iron Beam laser air defense system across Israel
Yonah Jeremy Bob
December 28, 2025

The Iron Beam laser-based, air-defense system has been deployed in the field, the Defense Ministry reported Sunday… In June, the Defense Ministry disclosed that Israeli laser defense systems had shot down around 40 Hezbollah drones in October 2024….The announcement also means that Iron Beam batteries will be produced and dispersed around the country at scale, as opposed to serving in just one or two locations where their impact would take time to be judged. The Defense Ministry and the IDF expect Iron Beam to immediately reduce the cost of intercepting aerial threats, a major challenge for Israel during the recent war, when tens of thousands of projectiles were launched from six fronts. READ MORE

FOX NEWS Israel unveils Iron Beam laser weapon while achieving record $15B arms sales (VIDEO)

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