“Numerous Northwestern faculty members who claim not to know any Zionist Jews are, in a sense, telling the truth—their own discriminatory practices ensure they never encounter them”

Posted on July 28, 2025 by ArchitectGuy

JEWISH JOURNAL
Saving Northwestern University From Itself
Scott A. Shay
July 30, 2025

Reports suggest the U.S. Department of Education is negotiating with Northwestern University to resolve allegations of antisemitism in exchange for the release of suspended federal grants. In my book, Conspiracy U: A Case Study, I detailed the systemic antisemitism and abandonment of academic standards at Northwestern long before these issues became widely recognized. This problem has deep roots; as late as 1970, Northwestern was the last major American university to abandon its quota system for Jewish applicants.  For real change to occur, any settlement must go far beyond a fine…The number of Jewish students at Northwestern has been plummeting as they feel increasingly unwelcome; some Jewish high schools that once sent numerous applicants now send none. Conversely, anti-Jewish activism appears to have become a “plus” for admission. READ MORE

JPOST University presidents return from Auschwitz with a pledge to combat campus antisemitism International March of the Living University Presidents mission equipped academic leaders with historical context and moral clarity amid growing campus antisemitism. Over the past two years, International March of the Living — a global Holocaust education and remembrance organization — brought more than 15 university presidents, representing more than 125 institutions of higher education, from North America and Europe to Poland for a weeklong educational journey.

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Israel’s foreign minister, Gideon Sa’ar, thanked Washington for its “moral support and leadership” and said that “singling out Israel and politicization by member states must end, in this and all professional UN agencies”

Posted on July 27, 2025 by ArchitectGuy

ALGEMEINER
Trump Pulls US Out of UN Cultural Agency UNESCO for Second Time
Reuters and Algemeiner Staff
July 22, 2025

President Donald Trump has decided to pull the United States out of the “woke” and “divisive” UN culture and education agency UNESCO, the White House said on Tuesday, repeating a move he took in his first term that was reversed by Joe Biden…White House spokeswoman Anna Kelly said UNESCO “supports woke, divisive cultural and social causes that are totally out-of-step with the commonsense policies that Americans voted for.” The State Department accused UNESCO of supporting “a globalist, ideological agenda for international development at odds with our America First foreign policy.” It said its decision to admit the Palestinians as a member state was “highly problematic, contrary to US policy, and contributed to the proliferation of anti-Israel rhetoric.” READ MORE

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Catherine Perez-Shakdam posed as a Muslim to gain the trust of Tehran’s elite. The Jewish analyst met Supreme Leader Khamenei, Gen Soleimani, President Raisi and heard plans to destroy Israel – and target Jews in the West.

Posted on July 26, 2025 by ArchitectGuy

EXPRESS
I posed as a Muslim woman to meet Iran’s evil leaders – what I heard shocked me
Marco Giannangeli
July 14, 2025

Catherine Perez-Shakdam is not easily rattled. The vivacious Jewish granddaughter of a French resistance hero, she played a key role in the recent decision to get Palestine Action proscribed under the UK’s Terrorism Act…Eight years ago, Catherine lived a double life few could fathom. Posing as a devout Muslim, she gained access to the very heart of the Iran’s theocratic regime, meeting with Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei and Iran’s most senior religious, political and military hierarchy, including “Butcher of Tehran” President Ebrahim Raisi and, most chillingly, General Qasem Soleimani, head of the IRGC’s Quds regiment before he was assassinated. READ MORE

YOUTUBE THE SPY STORIES Catherine Perez Shakdam: The Woman Who Played Iran’s Regime From interviewing Ebrahim Raisi just before he became Iran’s president, to writing for top Iranian state outlets like Khameneiir and Tehran Times, Perez-Shakdam gained unprecedented access to the Islamic Republic’s power structure. Her later revelations — published in The Times of Israel — shook Iran’s intelligence community and led to speculation that she may have helped facilitate Israel’s highly precise strikes against IRGC officials in 2025

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A movie about the year (2020) we lost our minds. “Most critics panned Ari Aster’s brilliant new film. Which only shows how little they—and the left—learned in the years since the pandemic”

Posted on July 25, 2025 by ArchitectGuy

FREE PRESS
‘Eddington’ Remembers When We All Lost Our Minds
River Page
July 22, 2025

I suspect that Eddington director Ari Aster’s reluctance to forget 2020 is what’s drawn the ire of liberal movie reviewers in recent days. Set in rural New Mexico in the summer of 2020, Aster’s brilliant new black comedy follows a feud between the titular town’s asthmatic, anti-mask Sheriff Joe Cross (Joaquin Phoenix) and his wife’s ex-boyfriend, liberal mayor Ted Garcia (Pedro Pascal). Their dispute quickly spirals out of control after Cross decides to run against Garcia; he is angry that the mayor has imposed a masking mandate and is promoting a new data center that Cross opposes. Murder, mayhem, and conspiracies ensue. It’s a masterpiece, in large part because it’s an equal-opportunity offender—one of the only retrospectives on 2020 that feels neither self-righteous nor preachy.  READ MORE.  Click here for Eddington trailer

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Goal of summit was to reach security understandings in order to maintain the ceasefire between Israel and Syria and prevent a crisis like the one last week

Posted on July 24, 2025 by ArchitectGuy

AXIOS
Senior Israeli and Syrian officials hold U.S.-brokered talks on de-escalation
Barak Ravid
July 24, 2025

Senior Israeli and Syrian ministers met in Paris for four hours on Thursday under the auspices of President Trump’s special envoy Tom Barrack and discussed de-escalation of tensions between the countries. The meeting that was brokered by the Trump administration was the most high-level official engagement between Israel and Syria in more than 25 years. It was the first meeting between the parties since the crisis erupted last week in the city of Suwayda in southern Syria last week and the Israeli strikes on Damascus that followed…In recent weeks, as Trump’s envoy Barrack became more involved in the efforts to reach an Israeli-Syrian security agreement that would be a first step toward normalization, the decision was made that [Ron] Dermer would join the talks. READ MORE

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Columbia University agrees to many concessions including the banning of masks at campus protests and punishment of students who participated in the storming of Hamilton Hall

Posted on July 24, 2025 by ArchitectGuy

NEW YORK POST
Columbia University to pay out more than $220M after violating Jewish students’ civil rights in massive win for Trump admin
Josh Christenson and Chris Nesi
July 24, 2025

The Trump administration has won unprecedented concessions from Columbia University in a sweeping settlement — with the Ivy League school paying more than $220 million and pledging to reverse racially discriminatory practices and resolve civil rights violations against Jewish students and workers, The Post can exclusively reveal…The resolution comes after just four months of negotiations between Columbia and Trump, striking a stark contrast with Harvard, which decided to drag the administration into court for stripping the school of $2.6 billion in grants and other funding…In addition to paying the feds $200 million to settle their discrimination claims, Columbia will fork over more than $20 million to Jewish employees who were discriminated against…The settlement further calls for Columbia to maintain a trained security force to block demonstrations in academic spaces and coordinate with the NYPD…while the university will impose a complete ban on masked protests. READ MORE

ALGEMEINER Mahmoud Khalil Refuses to Condemn Hamas, Visits High-Profile Democrats in DC Mahmoud Khalil, an anti-Israel activist and former Columbia University graduate student, refused to condemn the Palestinian terrorist group Hamas during an appearance on CNN on Tuesday….Khalil also toured Capitol Hill in Washington, DC on Tuesday to meet with Democratic members of Congress and share his testimony. Khalil, who gained prominence for spearheading raucous anti-Israel campus protests, held a series of closed-door meetings with several prominent liberal politicians. Many of the lawmakers who met with Khalil are among the most critical voices against Israel on Capitol Hill...Rep. Ayanna Pressley (D-MA) described Khalil as a “kind, gentle soul who cares deeply about others’ humanity.”

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“From Israel’s perspective, this is currently the preferred solution, because nobody wants Hamas or the P.A.”

Posted on July 23, 2025 by ArchitectGuy

JNS
Hamas leaders rattled by emergence of clans against them in Gaza
Yaakov Lappin
July 17, 2025

Israel is reportedly actively arming and supporting multiple local, anti-Hamas clans and militias in the Gaza Strip as part of a broader effort to cultivate a new source of local power for the “day after” the war.  According to assessments in Israel, Hamas has been significantly shaken by these efforts. Recent reports indicate this policy, which includes Israeli support for a militia led by Yasser Abu Shabab in the southern Gaza city of Rafah, is expanding. According to a July 3 report by Ynet news, Israel is arming and coordinating with two additional clans: the Khalas clan, operating in Gaza City’s Shejaiya neighborhood, and a faction led by Yasser Khanidak in Khan Yunis…A key tool for empowering these new groups, he suggested, will be the massive reconstruction effort Gaza will require. By giving these new clan leaders control over local construction companies, labor recruitment, and security for building sites, Israel and its international partners could help create a new, organic power base…READ MORE

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Greenfield: “This is the Islamic norm. And anywhere they take power, this is what will happen to non-Muslims. Let’s not let it happen to us”

Posted on July 23, 2025 by ArchitectGuy

GATESTONE
World Condemns Israel for Preventing Al Qaeda Genocide of Druze
Daniel Greenfield
July 23, 2025

Recently Al Qaeda/ISIS took over Syria. This development was greeted with cheers from world leaders who had been working toward this very goal from the Arab Spring days. Now, they assured us, Syria would become a democratic paradise full of human rights. Al-Jolani, the former Jihadist leader, made his world tour while Jihadis in Syria began massacring the Druze population. The Druze are a minority group considered illegitimate by Islamists. Israel has a large Druze population which protested in the streets. And Israeli planes struck Al Qaeda government targets in Syria. And the world condemned Israel. There’s been an official ‘ceasefire’ with the Al Qaeda regime in Damascus and videos still keep coming out of Jihadist massacres of Druze. READ MORE

FDD Hussain Abdul-Hussain: Why No States for the Druze or the Kurds?  Self-determination in the Middle East is inconsistent. For Muslim Palestinians, statehood is seen as an unfulfilled destiny. Yet for religious minorities like the Druze or ethnic groups like the Kurds, pursuing sovereignty is branded as betrayal or capitulation to imperialism. There’s no clear logic to why Israel should be divided into two states while Syria must remain whole. Recent attacks by Islamist jihadist groups on the Druze in southern Syria highlight why non-Arab and non-Muslim minorities need their own sovereign states, independent of the Muslim Arab majority that often claims exclusive rights to sovereignty. Across the Middle East, except in Israel, non-Muslim and non-Arab minorities are steadily shrinking, some disappearing entirely.

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Now they found their man — an Israeli! a Jew! — to give NY Times readers exactly what they want to hear: that Israel is committing genocide in Gaza, no matter how remotely untrue and unverified this is.

Posted on July 23, 2025 by ArchitectGuy

URBAN WARFARE
I’m a War Scholar. There Is No Genocide in Gaza
John Spencer
July 23, 2025

…Bartov cites death tolls from Hamas health authorities without question. He says 58,000 have been killed, including 17,000 children. But these numbers come from a terrorist organization. They mix civilians and fighters and count anyone under 18 as a child, even though Hamas uses teenagers and younger children as combatants. The figures are not independently verified and have been shown to contain false details, including names, ages, and sex. Civilian deaths are tragic, but in Gaza, they are also part of Hamas’s strategy. No military operation is judged solely by body counts or destruction figures. If we used Bartov’s logic, every major war would be called genocide. Two million civilians died in the Korean War, an average of 54,000 per month. The Iraq and Afghanistan wars killed hundreds of thousands. The fight against ISIS leveled multiple cities and killed tens of thousands. None of those wars were considered genocidal. Gaza is not either. READ MORE

FUTURE OF JEWISH Joshua Hoffman: The New York Times is lying to you about genocide An op-ed published last week, titled “I’m a Genocide Scholar. I Know It When I See It” was written by Omer Bartov, an Israeli-American historian and the Dean’s Professor of Holocaust and Genocide Studies at Brown University. In this op-ed, Bartov accuses Israel of committing genocide in Gaza, cloaking his arguments in the moral authority of his academic title and the historical weight of the word “genocide.” The Times amplified his claim without hesitation, feeding the narrative that Israel, a nation born in the ashes of an actual genocide, is now guilty of the very crime that defined Jews in the 20th century. This is not journalism; it is propaganda dressed as moral scholarship. And it is not new. The Times has a long and troubling record of shaping reality rather than reporting it.

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“It’s reached a point where the Central Jewish Council of Greece issued a public warning last month, saying Jewish tourists were being ‘attacked and described as murderers,’ simply because of their identity”

Posted on July 23, 2025 by ArchitectGuy

JNS
Israelis attacked in Rhodes amid Greek protests
Joshua Marks
July 23, 2025

A group of Israeli teenagers was attacked early on Wednesday on the Greek island of Rhodes by dozens of pro-Palestinian assailants, some reportedly armed with knives. The incident occurred shortly after Israeli cruise ship passengers were barred on Tuesday afternoon from disembarking on another Greek island—Syros—because of pro-Palestinian protests at Ermoupoli Port, where demonstrators accused the Jewish state of “genocide” in its war against Hamas terrorists in the Gaza Strip… “In the last two months alone, a Holocaust memorial in Larissa was defaced, Jewish cemeteries in Volos and Thessaloniki were desecrated, and earlier this month, men in black shirts bearing Palestinian flags were seen patrolling tourist areas in Athens like Monastiraki and the Plaka, threatening Israeli and Jewish visitors,” he said. READ MORE

ALGEMEINER French Jewish Students Forcibly Removed From Spanish Plane After Singing in Hebrew, Camp Director Arrested A group of 50 French Jewish students was forcibly removed from a plane in Valencia, Spain on Wednesday evening — reportedly for singing in Hebrew — in an incident that led to the arrest of their summer camp director. The children, aged 10 to 15, are members of the Kineret Club — a summer camp for Jewish families run by the Matana charitable association — which had just concluded their trip in the coastal resort town of Sant Carles de la Ràpita, between Valencia and Barcelona. According to local reports, the children were singing in Hebrew while boarding the plane to return home, which prompted a hostile response from the crew. As the incident quickly escalated, the camp director was arrested after refusing to hand over the children’s cell phones when requested by staff. VIEW VIDEO OF CAMP DIRECTOR BEING MANHANDLED BY SECURITY

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