‘Eli Cohen is a legend,’ said Netanyahu – ‘In the test of time, he is revealed as the greatest intelligence agent in the history of the state’

Posted on May 20, 2025 by ArchitectGuy

I24NEWS
Mossad retrieves trove of documents, belongings of executed spy Eli Cohen
May 18, 2025

Some 2,500 documents, photos, and belongings of executed spy Eli Cohen were retrieved from Syria in a special Mossad operation, the Prime Minister’s Office said on Sunday. The trove was recovered due to a secret, complex operation in cooperation with the official Syrian archive, which held thousands of classified items ever since his capture and subsequent execution in Damascus’s al-Marjeh Square in 1965. The items included the keys to his Damascus apartment, forged passports, and photos he took during his espionage, particularly of senior Syrian officials. He also left behind notebooks and diaries that were seized by Syria’s intelligence service. The announcement came 60 years to the day after his execution, with the items presented in the presence of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Mossad Director David Barnea, and the widow of the late Eli Cohen, Mrs. Nadia Cohen. Included was Cohen’s will, which he wrote hours before his execution, and of which only a copy has been publicly revealed so far. READ MORE

NDTV WORLD All About Eli Cohen, Popular Mossad Spy Publicly Hanged By Syria 60 Years Ago In 2019, Netflix released The Spy, a limited series dramatising Eli Cohen’s years-long undercover operation in Syria. Once upon a time in Damascus, Kamal Amin Thaabet moved freely among Syria’s elite, trusted and unseen. But behind the carefully built persona was Eli Cohen, an Israeli spy feeding crucial secrets to his homeland. Sixty years ago, his double life ended with a public execution. This week, Israel retrieved thousands of items linked to Cohen from a covert Syrian archive.

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“Israeli military operations in Gaza have yielded mountains of evidence proving just how deeply entwined UNRWA was with Hamas”

Posted on May 19, 2025 by ArchitectGuy

WASHINGTON REPORTER
The Department of Justice’s long-awaited reckoning for UNRWA has arrived
Jonathan Schanzer and Enia Krivine
May 16,2025

The Department of Justice (DOJ) last month took a potentially giant step in the effort to combat the Palestinian terrorist group Hamas by asserting that UNRWA, unlike other UN agencies, is not immune from U.S. criminal and civil law. The decision may not just open the door for victims of October 7 to sue UNRWA for damages, it may enable the Treasury Department to impose terrorism sanctions and shut down a significant terror-financing threat…The massacres of October 7, 2023 were a predictable byproduct of an education system imbued with Jew hatred, incitement, and the glorification of terror. READ MORE

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Chicago: When Kosha Dillz tried to screen his documentary on rising campus antisemitism, the venue canceled last-minute. What followed was a real-life echo of the film’s core message — and a powerful response from the community.

Posted on May 19, 2025 by ArchitectGuy

AISH
From Cancellation to Standing Ovation: Kosha Dillz’s Chicago Showdown
Susan Hornik
May 21, 2025

On May 13th, Israeli American rapper and activist Kosha Dillz was all set to premiere an unfinished cut of his debut documentary, “Bring the Family Home,” at the Chicago indie arthouse theatre, FACETS. The community screening, co-hosted by the Chicago Jewish Alliance (CJA), focuses on the alarming rise of antisemitism on U.S. college campuses, with a focus on student encampments and tensions at DePaul University and Northwestern University. The “Bring the Family Home” event also had a panel scheduled, with Dillz, Michael Kaminsky, a DePaul University student who had been harassed with anti-Jewish insults on campus after making pro-Israel statements, and Jeremiah Smith (part of Hersh Goldberg-Polin’s family). But the venue cancelled just a few hours before showtime. READ MORE

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About the Chicago Jewish Alliance.

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Israelis are sorely inept committing genocide: Since 1990 Palestinians have been one of the fastest-growing populations in the world, booming from 1.98 million to 5.5 million people in 2025

Posted on May 18, 2025 by ArchitectGuy

FRONT PAGE MAG
Cannes Celebs Virtue Signal in Pro-Hamas Letter to Industry
Mark Tapson
May 19, 2025

The 78th annual Cannes Film Festival is underway and the pretentious participants wasted no time virtue-signaling their support for the savage terror group Hamas and their self-righteous indignation over Israel’s right to self-defense…380 artistes called out their industry’s purported “silence” over what they ludicrously call a “genocide” in Gaza. The hundreds of Hamas supporters included the usual Progressive suspects Mark Ruffalo, Javier Bardem, Pedro Pascal, and Susan Sarandon…And yet the selective Left never complains that there are very few territories on earth more sexist, antisemitic, anti-trans and anti-LGBTQIA+ than the Gaza strip. READ MORE

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Harvard has adopted race-conscious hiring policies, potentially in violation of civil rights law.

Posted on May 17, 2025 by ArchitectGuy

CITY JOURNAL
Inside Harvard’s Discrimination Machine
Christopher Rufo and Ryan Thorpe
May 14, 2025

The Trump administration has escalated its battle with Harvard University, freezing all future grants and threatening to strip the school’s tax-exempt status. In response, Harvard has adopted some conciliatory measures— rebranding its DEI office and cancelling its racially segregated graduation ceremonies—but, behind the scenes, the university’s discrimination machine continues to operate at full capacity. We’ve obtained a trove of internal documents that reveal Harvard’s racial favoritism in faculty and administrative hiring. The university’s DEI programs are more than “unconscious bias” training. They are vectors for systematic discrimination against disfavored groups: namely, white men. READ MORE

FEDERALIST DHS Revokes Harvard’s Ability To Enroll Foreign Student The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) revoked Harvard University’s ability to enroll all foreign students on Thursday, telling all current foreign students they must transfer schools in order to keep their visas. DHS Secretary Kristi Noem sent a letter to Harvard informing the university that its certification for the Student and Exchange Visitor Program (SEVP) had been terminated. Noem further told the school that it can no longer enroll foreign students and that all existing foreign students must transfer schools or lose their legal status.

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Jerusalem reportedly open to border deal, normalized relations with Syria

Posted on May 15, 2025 by ArchitectGuy

TIMES OF ISRAEL
Israel holding talks with Syria on Sharaa regime joining Abraham Accords
16 May 2025

Israel has been holding secret talks with Syrian officials in recent days, including on the possibility of the new regime joining the Abraham Accords, according to a report Thursday, a day after US President Trump invited new Syrian President Ahmad al-Sharaa to join the accords and normalize ties with Israel. The talks are being mediated by the United Arab Emirates, Channel 12 news said, also referring to unspecified wider regional moves being advanced by the United Arab Emirates. A Haaretz report, by contrast, said the talks were being mediated by Qatar and had been going on for months…Channel 12 said one meeting was held in recent days in Azerbaijan, where Israel was represented by the chief of the IDF Operations Directorate, Maj. Gen. Oded Basyuk. He met with representatives from the new Syrian government, with Turkish representatives also present…READ MORE

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Yet more ICC corruption revealed

Posted on May 15, 2025 by ArchitectGuy

JPOST
ICC prosecutor issued warrants for Netanyahu to make West ‘turn against Israel’
Jotam Confino
May 13, 2025

Karim Khan, the International Criminal Court’s chief prosecutor, hoped that issuing arrest warrants for Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and former defense minister Yoav Gallant would make the West turn against Israel, a senior Western diplomat with firsthand knowledge of the ICC case has told The Jerusalem Post in an exclusive interview. The diplomat, who spoke on condition of anonymity, said that he believed Khan’s decision to issue arrest warrants against Israeli leaders was based on a combination of a desire to see powerful, Western nations turn against Israel and inspire public pressure from pro-Palestinian groups. READ MORE

JNS ICC prosecutor cited ‘Palestine’ to hush sex scandal ICC Chief Prosecutor Karim Khan asked a woman who accused him of sexual assault to drop charges so he could issue an arrest warrant for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, The Wall Street Journal reported on Saturday.

ASSOCIATED PRESS Trump’s sanctions on ICC prosecutor have halted tribunal’s work The International Criminal Court ’s chief prosecutor has lost access to his email, and his bank accounts have been frozen. The Hague-based court’s American staffers have been told that if they travel to the U.S. they risk arrest. Some non-governmental organizations have stopped working with the ICC and the leaders of one won’t even reply to emails from court officials. Those are just some of the hurdles facing court staff since U.S. President Donald Trump in February slapped sanctions on its chief prosecutor, Karim Khan…

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“On Wednesday, a Palestinian terrorist opened fire on Israeli vehicles in the northern West Bank, fatally wounding a pregnant woman and injuring her husband as they made their way to the hospital to deliver their baby”

Posted on May 15, 2025 by ArchitectGuy

ALGEMEINER
Hamas Praises Murder of Pregnant Israeli Mother After Terrorist Attack in West Bank
Ailin Vilches Arguello
May 15, 2025

Hamas sparked global outrage after lauding the murder of a pregnant Israeli mother of three — shot in the West Bank on her way to the hospital to give birth — as “historic,” amid a surge in violence and ongoing efforts by mediators to reach a ceasefire in Gaza Shortly after the shooting terrorist attack near the West Bank town of Bruqin, Abu Obaida, spokesperson for the Qassam Brigades — the military wing of the Palestinian terrorist group — issued a statement praising the assault..After the attack, the 30-year-old woman, identified as Tzeela Gez, was quickly transported to Petah Tikva’s Rabin Medical Center in critical condition. Despite doctors’ efforts to save her, she was pronounced dead early Thursday morning. With an emergency C-section, doctors managed to deliver her baby, who is now in stable condition but continues to fight for his life. READ MORE

ALGEMEINER Rashida Tlaib Introduces Resolution to Mandate Federal Recognition of Palestinian ‘Nakba’ US Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-MI) on Wednesday introduced a resolution recognizing the 77th anniversary of the “nakba,” the Arabic term for “catastrophe” used by Palestinians and anti-Israel activists to refer to the establishment of the modern state of Israel in 1948. “The nakba never ended. Today we are witnessing the Israeli apartheid regime carry out genocide in Gaza”…Co-sponsors of the bill include Democratic Reps. André Carson (IN), Summer Lee (PA), Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (NY), Ilhan Omar (MN), Ayanna Pressley (MA), Delia Ramirez (IL), Lateefah Simon (CA), and Bonnie Watson Coleman (NJ).

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“Free speech doesn’t mean freedom to intimidate. I’ve seen what real oppression looks like. These students aren’t freedom fighters. They’re bullies in keffiyehs”

Posted on May 15, 2025 by ArchitectGuy

TIMES OF ISRAEL
Harvard settles with Jewish student who sued school for ignoring campus antisemitism
May 16, 2025

Harvard University has settled a high-profile lawsuit by an Orthodox Jewish student who accused the Ivy League school of ignoring antisemitism on campus. Alexander Kestenbaum, who is known as Shabbos, and Harvard jointly agreed to end the case, according to a dismissal notice filed on Thursday in Boston federal court. “Harvard and Mr. Kestenbaum acknowledge each other’s steadfast and important efforts to combat antisemitism at Harvard and elsewhere,” the university says in a statement. “Harvard and Mr. Kestenbaum are pleased to have resolved the litigation.”…Jewish students say Harvard tolerated their being maligned as “murderers” and subjected to viral attacks, and accused the university of hiring professors who promoted anti-Jewish violence and spread antisemitic propaganda. READ MORE

FREE BEACON 11 Percent of Columbia Library Arrestees Identify as They/Them—Nearly 7 Times America’s Trans Population It’s a they-tifada. At least 9 of the 81 people, or 11 percent, arrested in connection with storming a Columbia University library Wednesday use “they/them” pronouns, a review of public records by the Washington Free Beacon shows. That share is well above the 1.6 percent of Americans who identify as transgender or nonbinary, according to the Pew Research Center, and more than double the 5 percent of people who identify as transgender or nonbinary under 30. The brood of agitators run the gamut from longtime professional protesters, to otherwise carefree writers and poets.

JNS ‘Insane’ Columbia students paying $90k have to leave MacBooks as protesters chase them out of library Columbia University has suspended more than 65 students and barred at least 33 others from campus, after dozens of anti-Israel protesters took over the Butler Library reading room on Wednesday and were later arrested by the New York City Police Department, a university official told JNS.

JPOST Columbia janitors sue pro-Palestinian protesters who ‘held them hostage’ Two university workers filed a lawsuit against over 40 students who allegedly assaulted them and called them “Jew-lovers” during last year’s Hamilton Hall occupation.

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The phenomenon of “lone soldiers” predates the modern State of Israel. Today, the country is home to an estimated 7,000 of them.

Posted on May 15, 2025 by ArchitectGuy

FUTURE OF JEWISH
These young Jews leave everything behind to defend Israel.
Joshua Hoffman
May 14, 2025

When Edan Alexander was released this week after more than 580 days in Hamas captivity, the news resonated far beyond Israel’s borders. Alexander, born in Israel and raised in New Jersey, had voluntarily returned to his birth country to enlist in the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) as a “lone soldier” (chayal boded in Hebrew) — a term reserved for those serving in the army without the support of immediate family in the country. His story is heartbreaking and heroic: Kidnapped on October 7th from an outpost in Kissufim, Edan had chosen to forgo his weekend leave in order to stay on base and serve. He wasn’t alone in that kind of sacrifice. Alexander is part of a growing and remarkable phenomenon in Israeli society — one that has only intensified in the aftermath of the October 7th massacre: young men and women, many from the Jewish Diaspora, leaving behind lives of comfort and security to join the IDF, not for personal gain, but out of principle, identity, and purpose. READ MORE

AXIOS Hamas approached pro-Trump activist for secret talks that freed Edan Alexander The backchannel talks that led to the release of Edan Alexander began with a message from a Hamas official to Bishara Bahbah, the former leader of “Arab Americans for Trump,” two Israeli officials, one Palestinian official and one U.S. official tell Axios. Hamas was seeking a way to convince President Trump to put more pressure on Israel, and Trump’s team was intent on freeing the last living American held in Gaza. Bahbah, a Palestinian-American businessman who helped Trump make inroads with Arab voters in 2024, became the unlikely intermediary.

NEW YORK POST Freed hostage Edan Alexander posts sweet Instagram message as he awaits return to New Jersey: ‘Home Sweet Home’ Newly freed Israeli-American Edan Alexander hopes to return to New Jersey soon with his family — as the 21-year-old recently enjoyed a cold beer for the first time since he was released by Hamas.  Alexander, who was freed Monday after 584 days in captivity, shared his first Instagram story, with the Tenafly resident flashing a smile and Corona bottle in hand, surrounded by loved ones on the hospital rooftop. “Home Sweet Home,” the caption read.

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