How many wars can you count where the attacked country is expected to feed the civilians in the country that did the attacking? I’ll wait while you compile the list.

Posted on July 30, 2025 by ArchitectGuy

FREE PRESS
Is Gaza Starving? Searching for the Truth in an Information War.
Matti Friedman
July 27, 2025

…It’s impossible to know how many Palestinians have been killed in these [aid delivery] incidents, because Hamas numbers are part of the group’s information war. But my friends serving nearby told me that there have been fatalities in multiple incidents, and that poor Israeli planning is partly to blame. One friend, a committed and capable officer, told me despondently that the distribution effort “isn’t working and can’t work.” It’s not that they’re not trying. The army simply doesn’t have the ability to run orderly food distribution in a hostile and war-ravaged territory that has devolved, to a large extent, into the rule of gangs and clans. READ MORE

SPENCER GARD John Spencer: Israel’s Aid to Gaza Is Historically Unprecedented But there is another truth that must be acknowledged. One that is rarely said out loud, despite being plain and provable: There is no historical precedent for a military providing the level of direct aid to an enemy population that Israel has provided to Gaza.

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Reports from inside Iran reveal that the regime and its supporters have reportedly raised more than $40 million in a crowdfunding campaign to murder Trump

Posted on July 29, 2025 by ArchitectGuy

GATESTONE
‘Bring the Head of Trump’: Iran Must Be Stopped
Majid Rafizadeh
July 26, 2025

Iran’s regime has crossed a line that no sovereign state has ever crossed before: it openly called for the assassination of a sitting president of the United States. Grand Ayatollah Naser Makarem Shirazi, one of the most powerful clerics in Iran’s theocratic system, has issued an official fatwa — a religious decree — calling for the murder of President Donald J. Trump. It did not come from some fringe radical hiding in a cave. It came directly from the top of Iran’s religious and political hierarchy. This is equivalent to a declaration of war. What makes the fatwa even more outrageous is that the regime is not just issuing threats—it has been raising money, publicly — to pay for Trump’s murder. It is not a joke. It is a direct, state-sanctioned call to eliminate America’s leader. READ MORE

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“Ben Rhodes, Tommy Vietor shaped the story of the Iran nuclear deal. Now they’re trying to turn Democrats away from Israel”

Posted on July 29, 2025 by ArchitectGuy

JEWISH INSIDER
Former Obama staffers turned podcasters reemerge to lead anti-Israel chorus
Danielle Cohen-Kanik
July 29, 2025

Former Obama administration officials Ben Rhodes and Tommy Vietor took to social media over the weekend to attack Israel and slam the American Israel Public Affairs Committee, asking how it’s possible to “trust Democrats to fight for anything” if they take money from the pro-Israel lobby group. The anti-Israel activism from the Democratic influencers is a public example of the intense lobbying taking place in party circles and how progressive foreign policy officials such as Rhodes who have long been deeply critical of Israel are pushing to turn humanitarian concerns in Gaza into a more permanent split between the Democratic Party and Israel. READ MORE

NEWSWEEK Full List of Senators Who Voted To Block Israel Arms Deal A majority of Democratic senators voted in support of Senator Bernie Sanders’ resolution to block an arms deal to Israel as public opinion shifts amid the ongoing conflict between Israel and Hamas. Bernie Sanders, a Vermont independent who has been critical of Israel, introduced two resolutions the Senate voted on Wednesday. Although both failed to receive majority support, they received record support from Senate Democrats. One resolution that would block the sale of assault rifles to Israel received support from 27 Democrats, while one to block the sale of more than $675 million in arms sales received support from 24 Democrats.

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An obsession with the Jewish state has replaced rationality by lethal propaganda.

Posted on July 29, 2025 by ArchitectGuy

JNS
The worldwide frenzy against Israel
Melanie Phillips
July 24, 2025

…This propaganda onslaught consists of three major libels: that the IDF is deliberately killing Gazans queueing for food, that Israel is starving Gazans to death, and that “settler violence” against Arabs is increasing in the disputed territories of Judea and Samaria. All three claims seek to turn Israel from being the target and victim of genocidal attack into a murderous criminal entity that doesn’t deserve to survive. It’s a propaganda onslaught mounted by Hamas acting in concert with its allies in the United Nations and the entire global humanitarian establishment, pumped out through a media megaphone and parroted by politicians who are either malevolent or clueless. READ MORE

JNS Jonathan Tobin: Anti-Israel virtue-signaling on Gaza is immoral The avalanche of anti-Israel propaganda as a result of a flurry of reports of alleged starvation in the Gaza Strip is starting to overwhelm even the most stalwart supporters of the Jewish state…What’s more, others—whether religious groups like the Reform movement, prestigious liberal journalists like The New Yorker’s David Remnick or secular comics like the Comedy Channel’s Jon Stewart (who used his show to platform the anti-Zionist Jewish journalist Peter Beinart, who believes in Israel’s elimination) or Jewish actor Mandy Patinkin, are loudly asserting that Israel has betrayed Jewish values in fighting its defensive war against Hamas.

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“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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