“On Wednesday night, a mob of Muslims and radical leftists assaulted a synagogue in Manhattan. Much as in the past, the police allowed the mob to blockade the synagogue and terrorize the Jews in and around it with no response”

Posted on November 20, 2025 by ArchitectGuy

NEW YORK POST
Antisemitic mob descends on historic NYC synagogue — urging the ‘resistance’ to ‘take another settler out’
Reuven Fenton, Georgett Roberts, Patrick Reilly and David Propper
November 20, 2025

A hateful mob of anti-Israel protesters descended on a prominent New York City synagogue Wednesday night, chanting “Globalize the intifada” and sinisterly urging the “resistance” to “take another settler out.” Some 200 demonstrators gathered outside the Park East Synagogue in Manhattan and heckled Jews attending an event by Nefesh B’nefesh, a Zionist organization that helps Jews immigrate to Israel, according to the Times of Israel. “It is our duty to make them think twice before holding these events,” one protest leader told the crowd…The crowd also chanted “From New York to Gaza, globalize the intifada” to the beat of a drum.” Resistance you make us proud, take another settler out,” the hate-filled group chanted at one point, video shows. READ MORE

FRONT PAGE MAG After Muslim Mob Attack on Synagogue, Mamdani Warns Jews Fleeing New York for Israel They’re Violating International Law In a taste of things to come, Zohran Mamdani’s spokeswoman mildly stated that the Islamist preparing to take over New York City “has discouraged the language used at last night’s protest”, like the calls to murder Jews, and then condemned the synagogue in terms very familiar to those defending previous attacks, stating that “sacred spaces should not be used to promote activities in violation of international law”. According to Mamdani, Jews fleeing the Muslim mobs of his movement are violating “international law” by taking refuge in their homeland. Once Mamdani takes office, the mob that attacked a synagogue will be on the inside.

BLACKLISTED Eve Barlow: A Helluva Town At the historic Park East synagogue, an orthodox place of worship, a center for Jewish life, and a day school, a group of 200 keffiyeh-wearing, placard holding, blood-libel screaming ghouls turned up last night to intimidate and terrorize Jewish civilians attending an event inside. They showed up at a Jewish house of worship in 2025 to scream obscenities at attendants and heckle them. They promised to “take another settler out.” Urging to globalize the intifada, and pump up “resistance”, the violent mob of hundreds of “anti-Israel activists” (bitch, please) brought their Palestine flags and their tribal drums to warn the Jews not to gather. 

WASHINGTON TIMES Clifford May: New York, New York, it’s a socialist town Mr. Mamdani claims he is not antisemitic, but he is anti-Zionist, which implies that he wants Israel disestablished. On Oct. 7, 2023, we saw how Hamas and other Jew haters intend to achieve that goal. Mr. Mamdani won’t even disavow “globalize the intifada” — a phrase that, according to no less an authority than Jonathan Greenblatt, head of the Anti-Defamation League — is “an explicit incitement to violence.” READ MORE

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“A weakly mandated international force that cannot or will not act decisively would simply become a fixed obstacle between Israeli forces and the very militants an operation claims to neutralize. The UN has a long history of such failed forces. For Israel it is life or death”

Posted on November 19, 2025 by ArchitectGuy

ARUTZ SHEVA
Why Israel must veto foreign forces in Gaza
Amine Ayoub
November 11, 2025

In early November 2025 the United States circulated a draft U.N. resolution proposing an international stabilization force for Gaza and a transitional governance framework to follow the ceasefire. The plan-framed as a two-year “stabilization” mission, with responsibilities from border security to training a Palestinian Arab police force-may sound like a sensible compromise to diplomats in conference rooms. In practice, it would tie Israel’s hands at the very moment it needs sovereign control over its security decisions. Israel’s opposition is not mere reflex. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and senior ministers have made clear that Jerusalem will determine which foreign contingents are acceptable and which are categorically not. That is not obstructionism – it’s the only rational posture for a country that has been fighting an existential ideological war with Hamas for decades. READ MORE

ISRAEL HAYOM Gaza proves you can’t solve everything with business deals The president struggles with the possibility that not every conflict can be resolved through transactional diplomacy and financial incentives…Yet concerning Phase 2 of the Gaza ceasefire agreement, the notion of “the complex and interesting deal” has emerged, at least for now, as either a fiasco or an illusion. It displays excessive naivety or pretense, occasionally drifting into fantasy territory. We harbor no ingratitude toward the man without whom the hostages would almost certainly continue languishing in Hamas tunnels today. However, we cannot escape the obligation to confront reality honestly, and most importantly, to comprehend how it emerged.

ALGEMEINER Trump-MBS Dealmaking Shaped Gaza Vote at UN, Empowering Hamas, Israeli Analysts Warn This week’s UN Security Council resolution endorsing US President Donald Trump’s 20-point Gaza peace plan was timed to appease Western and Arab governments and deliberately crafted to blur the question of Palestinian statehood in pursuit of broader regional interests, according to Israeli analysts, who warned the move risked empowering Hamas and endangering Israel’s security. Einat Wilf, a former member of Israel’s parliament, known as the Knesset, said the UN resolution intended to remove the Palestinian question from the headlines but could lay the groundwork for “another Oct. 7,” referring to Hamas’s Oct. 7, 2023, massacre across southern Israel, by repeating the same policy of ambiguity that allowed the Palestinian terrorist organization to regroup under previous ceasefire agreements. 

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“Addressing all of the hostages, Trump said, “It’s an honor to get to know all of you. We love you all, and our country loves you all… you’re amazing people””

Posted on November 19, 2025 by ArchitectGuy

TIMES OF ISRAEL
Trump hosts captives he helped free from Gaza: ‘You’re not hostages anymore, you’re heroes’
Jacob Magid
November 21, 2025

US President Donald Trump hosted a delegation at the White House on Thursday of nearly all the hostages freed through as part of the Gaza ceasefire deal he brokered last month. “You’re not a hostage anymore… today you’re heroes,” Trump told the former hostages and their families in a brief portion of his prepared remarks that were filmed and released by the White House. The Israeli delegation was made up of 26 former hostages, including 17 of the 20 living captives who were released in the deal that took force in October. Among those 17 was Matan Angrest, who Trump singled out for praise. “Because of his service in the IDF, Matan was subjected to severe beatings, even at times losing consciousness. Alone and under special guard, he went through hell,” Trump said in another short video posted by the Hostages Families Forum. READ MORE

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“Those experiences gave Thomas the fortitude to do something truly courageous: risk her friendships, face her misconceptions, and change her mind”

Posted on November 17, 2025 by ArchitectGuy

FREE PRESS
Confessions of a Former Pro-Palestine Activist
Maya Sulkin
November 19, 2025

When I saw a viral video of Taryn Thomas speaking at an October 7, 2025, vigil at Stanford, I knew she was unique. That’s because only two years before, she was a part of the pro-Palestine movement on her campus. After Hamas’s attack on Israel, Thomas took part in the first encampments that appeared on campuses across the country and fully submitted to the groupthink that Hamas was a legitimate resistance group. She marched with people who wouldn’t dare associate with Zionists, and accepted an invitation to see the Nova exhibit in Los Angeles only so she could report back to her friends about the “Zionist propaganda.” But that’s not what happened. Thomas says seeing evidence of the Nova festival and what truly happened on October 7 opened her eyes. In the months that followed, she took a trip to Israel, listened to the firsthand experiences of Israelis and Palestinians, and made friends from the Jewish community on her campus. READ MORE AND HEAR INTERVIEW

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“The accusations projected onto Jews and Israel reveal dark realities across the Muslim world”

Posted on November 17, 2025 by ArchitectGuy

FUTURE OF JEWISH
Every Jewish conspiracy is true, just not about Jews.
Joshua Hoffman
November 19, 2025

…The traits projected onto Israel and the Jewish People are, with uncanny consistency, the very traits that describe the governments, movements, monarchies, and ideological regimes of the Muslim world. Not secretly, not conspiratorially, not in shadowy cabals. Openly. Proudly. Systemically. Loudly. Take, for example, apartheid. Israel, the Middle East’s only liberal democracy, is the favorite target of the world’s apartheid accusers, even as nearly every Muslim-majority state practices the real thing. Saudi Arabia bans churches; Iran and Afghanistan enforce gender apartheid so literal it could be photographed; the Gulf states prohibit conversion out of Islam; minorities across the region live under systems of de facto or de jure segregation. Meanwhile, Arabs in Israel vote, serve as diplomats, sit on the Supreme Court, and run hospitals. If Israel is “apartheid,” then words have no meaning. To see genuine apartheid, you go where the accusation is loudest. READ MORE

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Jabotinsky: “It is important to speak Hebrew, but, unfortunately, it is even more important to be able to shoot”

Posted on November 17, 2025 by ArchitectGuy

NEW YORK POST
Jewish New Yorkers rushing to buy guns for protection after anti-Israel Zohran Mamdani’s victory
Doree Lewak
November 15, 2025

They’re preparing for a Mamdani administration lox, stock and barrel. Jewish New Yorkers are arming themselves before an anti-Israel “mayor who despises us” takes the helm of New York City, several told The Post this week. Michael Bergida, who opened a gun shop in Marine Park, Brooklyn, called Samson Armory — a nod to the Biblical Israelite warrior and symbol of sheer strength — said his new business is booming. Bergida, 30, is arming everyone from fearful zaydes to terrified rabbis. “We’re probably the only gun store to have a minyan,” said the 30-year-old Orthodox owner about the Jewish gathering for prayer. And who can blame them? Bergida said he foresees “chaos” under the incoming radical socialist mayor. “The NYPD is all retiring – we have to fight for ourselves. People are freaking out over Mamdani – anyone who has any Christian-Judeo values,” Bergida claimed, adding that he largely works with the Jewish community, who are tougher than bubbe’s brisket. READ MORE

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“Democrat resolution alleges a litany of crimes by the Israeli military and government, claiming that civilians and civilian objects had been targeted in Gaza on a wide scale, and humanitarian aid had been denied as a means to starve the populace”

Posted on November 16, 2025 by ArchitectGuy

JPOST
Rashida Tlaib rallies 20 Democrats in push for Congress to recognize Gaza ‘genocide’
Michael Starr
November 16, 2025

Congresswoman Rashida Tlaib and 20 other Democratic congresspeople submitted a resolution for the US to officially recognize that Israeli military operations in Gaza since October 2023 constituted a genocide against Palestinians. The resolution, presented on Friday, would declare US policy as set toward ceasing the transfers of military equipment to Israel due to concerns that a supposed genocide was underway. The US would have to ensure that individuals and corporations within US jurisdiction were not aiding, assisting, or inciting the alleged genocide, according to the text of the bill, and violators would be investigated and prosecuted. Other persons and corporations involved in the supposed crimes would be targeted with sanctions. READ MORE

THE HUB Alan Kessel and Casey Babb: The dangerous dilution of ‘genocide’ Once the term “genocide” is drained of its meaning and used as shorthand for any large-scale tragedy, it risks becoming a political slogan rather than a legal judgment.

AMERICAN JEWISH COMMITTEE 5 Reasons Why the Events in Gaza Are Not “Genocide” As images and accounts of human suffering in Gaza dominate headlines and social media, the accusation that Israel is committing genocide against  Palestinians in Gaza has gained traction in protests and scholarly discourse, on social media, the vitriol of anti-Israel protesters, through a spurious accusation filed by South Africa in the International Court of Justice, and reports by so-called ‘UN experts,’ and sensational reports by NGOs.

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Qatar isn’t only an ally of Hamas, Qatar also has history supporting Al Qaeda and the Taliban

Posted on November 16, 2025 by ArchitectGuy

TOWNHALL
Exposed: Qatar’s Circle of Terrorist Friends
Natalie Ecanow
November 13, 2025

In recent comments to CNN, Qatar’s prime minister reflected on his country’s unique ability to “convene between conflicted parties and understand the grievances.”  Of course, Qatar’s ability to perform that job rests on a hefty rolodex of international contacts, including some of the world’s most notorious terrorist groups. At first glance, this wouldn’t strike the average reader as much of a problem. The United States doesn’t negotiate with terrorist groups, which means it must employ someone else to mediate. Why shouldn’t that someone be Qatar, a Major Non-NATO Ally in good standing with Washington? The only problem is that Qatar has spent decades harboring, financing, or promoting many of the terrorist groups it engages. At best, the Qataris come to the negotiating table with biases. At worst, they’re doing the terrorists’ bidding. READ MORE

AMIT SEGAL Israel Needs to Act More Forcefully Against the Turkish Threat The Israeli embassy in Ankara has been closed and gathering dust since October 7, while the consulate in Istanbul opens only rarely, when two brave diplomats risk their lives and go there for a few days each month. The Turks, on the other hand—take note—have no fewer than 50 diplomats here: 30 in Tel Aviv and 20 in Jerusalem. They’re not cultivating ties with Israel—they’re working to undermine it from within. When Ismail Haniyeh was assassinated in Tehran some 15 months ago, the Turkish flag at the embassy in Tel Aviv was lowered to half-mast in mourning. The ayatollah regime in Tehran has not yet fallen, but one can already see on the horizon the prophecy of the legendary Middle East scholar Bernard Lewis—that Iran would become Turkey, and Turkey would become Iran.

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Male and female hostages of Hamas were raped: “According to his account, the attacker then held a gun to his head and threatened to kill him if he ever mentioned it”

Posted on November 16, 2025 by ArchitectGuy

MEDIA LINE
Freed Hostage Guy Gilboa-Dalal Says Captor Sexually Assaulted Him
November 20, 2025

A newly released hostage has given a detailed account of sexual assault during his captivity in Gaza, adding to a growing body of testimony from Israelis who endured similar abuse while held by Hamas. In a Channel 12 interview broadcast Wednesday, Guy Gilboa-Dalal described an incident in which a captor assaulted him after allowing him to shower, recounting the episode as one of the most traumatic moments of his more than two-year imprisonment. Gilboa-Dalal said the assailant pulled him from the bathroom before he could dress, took him into a nearby room, and forced him into an armchair. “He started touching me all over my body,” he said, explaining that he froze when he realized what was happening. He told the interviewer he pleaded with the captor, saying, “You’re joking, right? This is forbidden in Islam.”  READ MORE

ALGEMEINER UN Rapporteur on Sexual Violence Denies Hamas Atrocities: ‘No Investigation Found That Rape Occurred’ Reem Alsalem, the United Nations Special Rapporteur on violence against women and girls, sparked controversy over the weekend by publicly denying claims of sexual violence committed by Hamas during the October 7 massacre in Gaza. In a statement shared on social media, Alsalem asserted, “No Palestinian cheered for rape in Gaza. No independent investigation has found that rape occurred on October 7.” Her comments immediately drew strong criticism from Israeli officials. Danny Danon, Israel’s ambassador to the UN, called the statement “a moral disgrace” and accused Alsalem of insulting the victims and their families. 

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EVENTS: Nova Music Festival Exhibition closes November 30, see before it leaves Chicago; Reprise screening of the excellent “Beneath the Helmet” in Highland Park

Posted on November 14, 2025 by ArchitectGuy

Nova Music Festival Exhibition in Chicago
The Nova Exhibition is an in-depth remembrance of the brutal massacre at the Nova Music Festival on October 7th, 2023. The installation sets out to recreate a festival dedicated to peace and love that was savagely cut short by a terrorist attack on that fateful day. The attack at the Nova Music Festival was the largest massacre in music history. This powerful installation invites visitors to immerse themselves and bear witness to the tragic events of October 7th and its aftermath. Visit the Chicago installation from November 4 through November 30. Click here for tickets.

Open Dor Media’s “Beneath the Helmet”
L’Chaim Center is hosting a reprise screening of the OpenDor Media film, Beneath the Helmet: From High School to the Home Front, with special guest to speak following the movie, Captain Eden Adler (reserves), who starred in the film. Click here for tickets.

When:  Monday, December 8th @ 7:30-9:00pm
Where: Wayfarer Theatre, 1850 2nd Street, Highland Park, IL

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