“The GHF holds Hamas fully responsible for taking the lives of our dedicated workers who have been distributing humanitarian aid to the Palestinian people at the foundation’s sites in central and southern Gaza”

Posted on June 12, 2025 by ArchitectGuy

I24 NEWS
GHF says Hamas ‘brutally attacked’ aid workers, 10 reportedly massacred
June 11, 2025

The Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF) accused Hamas of massacring its aid workers on Wednesday night, attacking a bus carrying more than 24 Palestinian employees working with the American company to bring aid to Gazans. The GHF said it knows of at least eight people killed, more wounded, and fears that others may have been abducted. i24NEWS learned from a Gazan source that the death toll had risen to 10. “We condemn this heinous and deliberate attack in the strongest possible terms,” the GHF said. The bus was on its way to one of the distribution centers in the southern Gaza Strip’s Khan Yunis. According to Hamas-affiliated media outlets, the terror group executed five fighters of the Popular Forces, a rival militia led by tribal leader Yasser Abu Shabab. Twelve others were shot in the legs. READ MORE

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“One resolution, which praised ICE and highlighted the need for vetting visa applicants, split House Democrats”

Posted on June 11, 2025 by ArchitectGuy

JEWISH INSIDER
House passes two resolutions condemning antisemitic attacks, amid controversy
Marc Rod
June 9, 2025

The House voted on Monday to pass two resolutions condemning recent antisemitic attacks. One, led by Republicans, which focused on the Boulder, Colo., attack and immigration issues, and split the Democratic caucus. The other, which was bipartisan and highlighted a series of antisemitic attacks, passed nearly unanimously, with just two lawmakers voting present. The first resolution attracted controversy among Democrats ahead of the vote, but it passed by a 280-133 vote. Seventy-five Democrats, mostly moderates and pro-Israel members, ultimately voted in favor of the resolution and 113 voted against it…The resolution stated that the Boulder attack, perpetrated by an Egyptian national who overstayed a visa and work permit who threw a Molotov cocktail at activists raising awareness for the hostages in Gaza, “highlights the need to aggressively vet aliens who apply for visas” and “demonstrates the dangers of not removing from the country aliens who fail to comply with the terms of their visa. READ MORE

AXIOS Tensions erupt in Congress over vote to condemn Boulder attack What would otherwise be an uncontroversial congressional vote to denounce the Boulder attack is devolving into a contentious partisan feud, Axios has learned. Language praising ICE and labeling “Free Palestine” an “antisemitic slogan” are sparking fury from some Democrats, who see the provisions as a GOP maneuver to force them into a difficult vote.

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“US Treasury said it will continue to seek disruptions to the financial capabilities of Hamas, which still holds hostages it seized in the group’s Oct. 7, 2023, attack on Israel”

Posted on June 11, 2025 by ArchitectGuy

ALGEMEINER
US Issues Sanctions Against Charities Supporting Hamas, PFLP
Reuters and Staff
June 10, 2025

The United States imposed sanctions on Tuesday targeting individuals and sham charities that it said were prominent financial supporters of the Palestinian terrorist groups Hamas and the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine. The individuals and groups targeted were funding Hamas‘s military wing under the pretense of doing humanitarian work, in Gaza and internationally, the Treasury Department said…The entities sanctioned included the Gaza-based Al Weam Charitable Society, the Turkey-based Filistin Vakfi, the El Baraka Association for Charitable and Humanitarian Work, which is based in Algeria, the Netherlands-based Israa Charitable Foundation and the Associazione Benefica La Cupola d’Oro, based in Italy, the department said in a statement. READ MORE

THE EDITORS U.S. Treasury Sanctions Harvard Palestinian Partner as Fraudulent Terrorist Front Group The U.S. Treasury Department today announced sanctions against what it called a “fraudulent charity linked to the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine. ” The charity, Addameer, is a group that Harvard University has partnered with and defended.

THE HILL Rubio knocks allies for sanctioning Israeli officials Secretary of State Marco Rubio knocked U.S. allies on Tuesday for sanctioning Israel’s Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich and National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir amid the war in Gaza.  Five countries — United Kingdom, Canada, Norway, New Zealand, and Australia — said the sanctions are not targeting the Israeli people but individuals who are using their leadership positions to “actively undermine peace and security” and remove prospects for a two-state solution.

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CAMERA senior research analyst Sean Durns reviews “When the Stones Speak: The Remarkable Discovery of the City of David and What Israel’s Enemies Don’t Want You to Know”

Posted on June 9, 2025 by ArchitectGuy

FREE BEACON
Israel Unearths the Truth
Sean Durns
June 8, 2025

Those who control the past, George Orwell famously warned, control the future. In his new book, When the Stones Speak: The Remarkable Discovery of the City of David and What Israel’s Enemies Don’t Want You to Know, author Doron Spielman brilliantly connects battles over the Jewish people’s past to present efforts to deny the Jewish state’s legitimacy. As he makes clear: The past matters more than ever. On its surface, When the Stones Speak is about the discovery of the ancient City of David, which sits just south of the Old City of Jerusalem. But thanks to Spielman’s gift for storytelling and his welcome penchant for using history to explain current events, the book is about far more than an archaeological dig…In fact, the Jewish presence in the land has been continuous, and it predates the Arab and Islamic conquests by millennia. But acknowledging this would present Zionism—the belief in Jewish self-determination in the Jewish people’s ancestral homeland—as a “liberation movement.” And this runs counter to those who hope to present Israel as an evil, imperialist transplant. READ MORE

CBN ‘When the Stones Speak’: Author Says Wave of Biblical Jerusalem’s Discoveries Threatens Israel’s Enemies The pace of archaeological finds has picked up dramatically in recent years in the City of David, just outside Jerusalem’s Old City walls. The City of David is the Jerusalem described in the Bible. CBN News talked with Doron Spielman, who has written a new book called When the Stones Speak: The Remarkable Discovery of the City of David and What Israel’s Enemies Don’t Want You To Know. Spielman recounts many of the discoveries that confirm biblical historical figures and events, and says each archaeological find is a threat to Israel’s adversaries because “There’s an assault on the Bible, and the City of David is the most dangerous thing for those deniers.” CLICK HERE TO WATCH VIDEO

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“And yet, the Jewish People for the most part remain reactive, submissive observers…It is time to stop holding conferences and Zoom meetings where we all complain about how Israel and its supporters are portrayed or treated”

Posted on June 9, 2025 by ArchitectGuy

FUTURE OF JEWISH
Diaspora Jews are in a war, and we must be combatants
Bob Goldberg
June 9, 2025

…We are in a war, and we must be combatants. Far too many Jews, particularly in the West, seem unmoored, caught between their loyalty to Leftism and fear, unsure how to respond to a world once again uneasy with Jewish confidence. They hate politicians like Donald Trump more than they love Israel. And, at the same time, the handful of antisemitic and Israel-hating bottom feeders can no longer be rationalized by those who are loyal to conservative ideology. Indeed, for too long, Jewish groups have enabled the intellectual and political forces that are motivated by wiping out Israel. Donors, instead of building centers for Zionist thought or teaching Hebrew as a civilizational language, poured billions into Holocaust education divorced from modern Jewish sovereignty. These programs are now leading the effort to demonize Zionism. READ MORE

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UK blames the messenger: “After my protest against Islamic extremism landed me with criminal charges, the verdict is in: It is now illegal to criticize Islam in Britain”

Posted on June 9, 2025 by ArchitectGuy

FREE PRESS
I Burned a Quran. The British Government Punished Me for Blasphemy.
Hamit Coskun
June 6, 2025

On February 13, 2025, Hamit Coskun set fire to his copy of the Quran outside the Turkish embassy in London. Coskun—an atheist who fled persecution from the Turkish authorities in 2022—was there to protest Islamic extremism in his home country. For this act, he was assaulted and knocked to the ground by a bystander, kicked by another passerby, and charged with a “religiously aggravated public order offense” by the Crown Prosecution Service. At his sentencing, a UK district judge told Coskun that his protest was “provocative,” concluding that he had been driven by “a deep-seated hatred of Islam and its followers. But in the account below, Coskun insists that he was attacking ideas, not people. He warns that the same religious authoritarianism he fled in his home country is now infecting his adoptive country, too. READ MORE

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Israel-founded Paragon Solutions was sold to a private equity firm, which critics argue put Israeli cyberattack technology into foreign hands

Posted on June 9, 2025 by ArchitectGuy

JNS
Israeli cyber firm’s $1 billion exit endangers nation’s security, intel experts
David Isaac
June 11, 2025

The sale of a cyber technology firm co-founded by an ex-chief of Unit 8200, the Israeli military’s vaunted signals intelligence unit, and former Israeli prime minister Ehud Barak has enraged the country’s intelligence elite, who say it endangers state security. Founded in 2019, Paragon Solutions was the brainchild of IDF Brig. Gen. (ret.) Ehud Schneorson, who commanded Unit 8200 until retiring from military service in 2017. Paragon’s principal product, spyware dubbed “Graphite,” is inserted into cell phones through messaging applications, such as WhatsApp and Telegram, with a “zero-click” technology so that the phone’s owner is unaware of the breach. READ MORE

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At Barnard: “By not agreeing with students on Palestine, I was branded a hater of people of color, a supporter of “apartheid” and “segregation” – basically, evil”

Posted on June 6, 2025 by ArchitectGuy

TIMES OF ISRAEL
How Campus Hamas Supporters Led Me To Judaism
Toni Airaksinen
June 4, 2025

When I began studying at Barnard College of Columbia University in 2015, I was on a full-ride scholarship. Coming from a foster-care type upbringing, I had no family. No friends in NYC. And no support system. But I was full of hope, excitement and dreams to study. But when a student knocked on my door my after I moved in with a Boycott, Divest, and Sanctions (BDS) petition against Israel, I paused. Was this a friend or foe? What was this about? I had only vaguely heard of Israel and Palestine, and I didn’t feel comfortable signing the petition. Geopolitics wasn’t my strong suit. And I barely heard about Israel or Palestine before. So, I told the girl that I couldn’t sign it till I did more research, and she left, seemingly ok with that response. Days later, she again asked me to sign the BDS petition. READ MORE

JNS Arizona governor vetoes bill to hold teachers liable for Jew-hatred in schools “Governor Hobbs is frighteningly wrong,” Morton Klein, national president of the ZOA, told JNS. Under the provisions of HB 2867, Arizona would have adopted the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance’s working definition of Jew-hatred and forbidden education officials from propagating any “antisemitism or antisemitic conduct, act or process that constitutes harassment or discrimination and that creates a hostile educational environment.”

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“Welcome to Israel, Greta! Here’s your big reward!”

Posted on June 6, 2025 by ArchitectGuy

NATIONAL REVIEW
All the Radicalisms Combine into One
Jeffrey Blehar
June 10, 2025

…Last Thursday I promised you, my readers, that I would never write about activist snot Greta Thunberg again. Now here I am, making a liar out of myself almost immediately. But if you will allow me a brief follow-up, I am disappointed to inform you that, as predicted, the Israeli navy interdicted Thunberg’s “eco-friendly” yacht along with the rest of the Freedom Flotilla without incident, before they reached Gaza. All have been escorted to Israel, where they will be returned to their home countries. Oh well. The Israelis handled the entire affair with professional dispatch and more than a bit of media savvy (all aboard looked appropriately ridiculous). And you know what? I almost regret that, because I was hoping for public humiliation on a grand scale. I was pulling for a memorably karmic conclusion; I would have just let them land in Gaza — and abandoned them to their fate. (“My advice is to head north as fast as you can. I wish you luck with a capital F.”) READ MORE

JPOST Muddling through the ‘Madleen’: How Israel got the better of Greta Thunberg It looks like Israel, for the most part, handled the incident well; and especially in tough times like these, any PR victory must be celebrated, including getting the better of Greta Thunberg.

NEW YORK POST Greta Thunberg and ‘selfie yacht’ pals refused to watch ‘horror film of the Oct. 7 massacre’ Greta Thunberg and other detained activists on her Gaza-bound “selfie yacht” refused to watch a film detailing Hamas’ slaughter of more than 1,000 people in Israel, according to officials. “Greta and her flotilla companions were taken into a room upon their arrival for a screening of the horror film of the October 7 massacre,” Israel’s defense minister, Israel Katz, said of the group’s arrival in the port of Ashdod after they were detained about 125 miles off the coast Monday. But “when they saw what it was about, they refused to continue watching,” Katz said, according to The Times of Israel.

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“In her powerful address, Hausdorff draws attention to the historical manipulation of legal language, including how terms like “genocide” are being used to distort the reality of Israel’s situation”

Posted on June 5, 2025 by ArchitectGuy

TIMES OF ISRAEL
Trump administration slaps sanctions on four ICC judges over Israel and US cases
Jacob Magid
June 6, 2025

The Trump administration on Thursday imposed sanctions on four judges at the International Criminal Court who have been involved in proceedings against Israel and the United States. The four judges will be barred from entering the US and their assets in the country will be seized, measures typically used against officials from countries hostile to America. “The United States will take whatever actions we deem necessary to protect our sovereignty, that of Israel, and any other US ally from illegitimate actions by the ICC,” US Secretary of State Marco Rubio said in a statement. “I call on the countries that still support the ICC, many of whose freedom was purchased at the price of great American sacrifices, to fight this disgraceful attack on our nation and Israel,” Rubio said. READ MORE

YOUTUBE Natasha Hausdorff EXPOSES Their Blood Libel Against Israel In a searing and impassioned speech, renowned British barrister Natasha Hausdorff condemns the United Nations, the International Criminal Court (ICC), and the International Court of Justice (ICJ) for weaponizing international law to unfairly target Israel. Hausdorff argues that legal terms such as “occupation,” “apartheid,” and “genocide” are being deliberately twisted to attack the Jewish state, calling this a modern form of blood libel. She stresses how these biased international institutions, led by corrupt judges, are erasing history and spreading dangerous lies about Israel.

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