“The now-deleted assignment suggested that Israeli oppression was a helpful “contemporary connection” for understanding the struggles of Native Americans”

Posted on July 4, 2021 by ArchitectGuy

JNS
Washington State removes anti-Israel lesson from K-12 Native American curriculum
by Jonah Cohen
July 8, 2021

The Washington Office of Superintendent of Public Instruction (OSPI) removed on Wednesday what it called “a clear example of implicit bias” against Israel from its mandatory K-12 Native American curriculum, a precedent that could hinder attempts by anti-Israel activists to misappropriate Native American history in other state schools.  The assignment’s removal came after CAMERA staff contacted state education officials and tribal leaders about problems in the curriculum. A tendentious portrayal of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict was strangely inserted into a fifth-grade lesson about the Indian Fight for Independence. READ MORE

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“Both Lewis and Naibryf were prominent members of the University of Chicago’s small Jewish community, which numbers around 800”

Posted on July 4, 2021 by ArchitectGuy

JTA
University of Chicago’s Jewish community reels with 1 student missing in Surfside and another killed by a stray bullet
by Ben Sales
July 6, 2021

Rabbi Anna Levin Rosen has counseled Jewish students at the University of Chicago through crises before. But she says the last two weeks have been “devastating.” First, Ilan Naibryf, 21, disappeared in last month’s Surfside, Florida, building collapse. He had been visiting with his girlfriend, Deborah Berezdivin, whose family owned two units in the building; neither of them has been found yet. Then, last week, Max Lewis, 20, was struck by a stray bullet while riding the train back from his internship at a finance firm. Paralyzed from the neck down, he died on Sunday after he asked to be taken off life support. READ MORE

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“The Abraham Accords represent a future that we believe must become more commonplace: one in which differences are set aside in favor of dialogue”

Posted on July 4, 2021 by ArchitectGuy

THE NATIONAL NEWS
UAE-Israel peace is more than an agreement. It’s a way of life.
by Sheikh Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan and Yair Lapid
July 1, 2021

The world expected our differences to define us. One of us is a Jew, the other a Muslim. One of us is Israeli, the other Arab. Not only have these characteristics shaped us as human beings, they have also presented an enduring question: Does the past determine the future, or is our fate in our own hands? This past week, with the first-ever official visit by an Israeli minister to the UAE and the opening of an Israeli embassy and consulate in the country, we have an opportunity to reflect on the answer. Fundamentally, the UAE and Israel decided to do things differently with the signing of the historic Abraham Accords in 2020.  READ MORE

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Hamas aims to kill as many Israeli civilians as possible, but its rockets place both Israelis and Palestinians in peril; 680 misfired and exploded inside Gaza

Posted on July 4, 2021 by ArchitectGuy

JNS
How many Gaza Palestinians were killed by Hamas rockets in May? An estimate.
by Alex Safian
July 5, 2021

Numbers were at the heart of much of the coverage and commentary surrounding the fighting in May between Hamas and Israel. One example was the front-page New York Times story and photo spread about the number of (mostly) Palestinian children killed. Upon closer examination, however, the numbers tell a very different story from that propounded by Hamas and most media outlets. First, some baseline facts. In the 11 days of fighting between Israel and Gaza, Hamas and similar groups launched at least 4,360 rockets and mortars (rockets, for short) at Israel. Of those, 3,573 penetrated Israeli airspace, 280 landed in the Mediterranean and a significant 680 fell short and landed in Gaza (according to the Intelligence and Terrorism Information Center [ITIC]). READ MORE

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“The conspiratorial notion that Israel deliberately sent unusable vaccines to the Palestinians would later be exposed by events, after both Israelis and South Koreans happily made use of the doses”

Posted on July 4, 2021 by ArchitectGuy

TABLET MAG
The Palestinian Vaccine Fiasco
by Yair Rosenberg
July 7, 2021

…The exchange is a win-win for Israel and South Korea—and a lose-lose for the Palestinian people, who were originally supposed to receive these very vaccines in the exact same arrangement with Israel. But thanks to a bad faith anti-vax campaign—enabled by feckless political figures, inept international media coverage, and partisan activism—the deal was capsized shortly after it was announced. This public health disaster deserves a lot more attention than it has received, because it reveals the pathologies that continue to prevent progress in the region, and because, quite simply, it’s going to get people killed. READ MORE

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“The inclusion officer’s identity as a black Jew should have made her unassailable. Instead, it was used to discredit her”

Posted on July 4, 2021 by ArchitectGuy

COMMONS SENSE WITH BARI WEISS
April Powers Condemned Jew-Hate. Then She Lost Her Job.
by Kat Rosenfield
July 6, 2021

On first viewing, it looked like a Tik-Tok riff on The Purge: a caravan of cars rolls down La Cienega Boulevard in Los Angeles. The passengers — young men in keffiyehs, some draped to mask their faces — stand and shout through sunroofs and windows. The cars honk incessantly. In the back of a slow-moving Jeep, one man waves a billboard-sized Palestinian flag while another shouts through a megaphone: “Israel kills women and children every day!” His companions jeer: “Yeah! Fuck you!” The next video shows the same men on the sidewalk, shouting and advancing on another man in a grey shirt who’s trying to fend them off with a metal pedestal. In the next: The man in grey is lying on the ground, curled in the fetal position. They punch him, kick him, claw at him. READ MORE

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Inside Black Lives Matter: A BLM Expose from Ami Horowitz

Posted on July 4, 2021 by ArchitectGuy

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New Schedule: ArchitectGuy MailChimp summaries to be emailed every Friday

Posted on July 3, 2021 by ArchitectGuy

Beginning this Friday July 9, my MailChimp ArchitectGuy news blog summaries will change to once-a-week to provide you with informative weekend reading every Friday.

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“Naftali Bennett is the first kippah-clad prime minister in Israel’s history but he got there by betraying principle for position, which is why he is the most hated politician in Israel among his spurned former allies in the religious bloc”

Posted on July 1, 2021 by ArchitectGuy

ISRAEL HAYOM (by agreement with JNS)
Bennett and the Religious Zionist elite
by Caroline Glick
July 2, 2021

The biggest media story of the week in Israel was the fall of the town of Evyatar in Samaria. Evyatar is located between three Palestinian villages and two Israeli villages. It was originally settled in 2013, following the murder nearby of Evyatar Borovsky, only to be destroyed by the IDF. It was settled again in May by 50 families in response to the murder of Yehuda Guetta. Two weeks ago, Defense Minister Benny Gantz issued a new eviction order. The police and army brought in reinforcements to carry out the order. Activists from all over Judea and Samaria and countrywide began streaming to Evyatar to support its residents. The countdown to the showdown began. READ MORE

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New initiatives are integrating haredi society into Israel’s tech sector and tapping into their strength to upgrade the ‘start-up nation.’

Posted on July 1, 2021 by ArchitectGuy

JERUSALEM POST
Start-Up nation: How haredi Jews are integrating into Israel’s tech sector
by Zev Stub
July 1, 2021

Did you hear the one about the time a group of top hi-tech CEOs, a former air force commander and the chairman of Bank Hapoalim walked into the Ponevezh Yeshiva in Bnei Brak on a Thursday night and started learning Talmud with the students? It’s not a joke, but it might be part of a major shift happening in Israeli society. A group of top executives, including the Israeli CEOs of Facebook, Cisco, IBM and other giants, recently got a close-up look at haredi community life on a bus tour through Bnei Brak organized by Kamatech, an organization that connects haredi entrepreneurs to Israel’s hi-tech ecosystem. READ MORE

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