“Netanyahu noted in interview that, as prime minister in 1996, he initiated the process of ending US financial aid to Israel, a process that eventually led to its full termination”

Posted on November 13, 2025 by ArchitectGuy

I24 NEWS
Israel considers a gradual reduction of US military aid
November 13, 2025

A dramatic shift may be underway in Israel’s strategic defense policy as officials in Jerusalem confirm to i24NEWS that Israel considers a gradual reduction of US military aid. The annual aid package stands at $3.8 billion, almost all of which is directed toward purchases from the American defense industry. This development ties in with an extraordinary statement made by the Prime Minister this morning in an interview with Australian television, in which he said that he wants to see a much more independent defense industry…This shift in Netanyahu’s outlook is also one of the lessons Israel has drawn from the war in Gaza and from its dependence on the US particularly evident in the Biden administration’s arms embargo. But there is also a political and diplomatic element here, a nod to President Trump and to growing factions within the Republican Party calling to put an end to US military aid to Israel. READ MORE

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“The former jihadist terrorist, who became the first-ever Syrian visitor to the White House, is leaving Washington with tangible rewards”

Posted on November 13, 2025 by ArchitectGuy

NEW YORK SUN
Quiet White House Visit by Syria’s Acting President Causes Trepidation in Israel
Benny Avni
November 10, 2025

Although the White House visit by Syria’s acting president, Ahmad al-Shara, was conducted in uncharacteristically hushed tones, it marks a significant shift in America’s policy toward that country — sparking some trepidation in Israel.  Following a two-hour meeting with President Trump on Monday, Mr. Shara left the way he came in: through the White House’s back entrance. The now-familiar presidential greeting at the front entrance was absent, as was the extended press conference that Mr. Trump habitually conducts with high-level guests.  Yet the former jihadist terrorist, who became the first-ever Syrian visitor to the White House, is leaving Washington with tangible rewards. Those include an end to the sanctions against him and aides, as well as against the country he leads. In return, Mr. Shara vows to join an American-led anti-ISIS coalition and work toward agreements with neighboring Israel. READ MORE

JPOST Israel’s lessons learned from Syria’s Sharaa historic White House meeting with Trump There are many skeptics about Sharaa who think the new government in Damascus has a problem with its extremist past – only time will tell whether this changes.

MEDIA LINE Syrian President Al-Sharaa Claims President Trump Endorses Israel’s Departure From Golan Heights Syrian President Ahmed al-Sharaa said in an interview with The Washington Post on Tuesday that President Donald Trump supports Israel’s withdrawal from the Golan Heights as part of ongoing negotiations between Damascus and Jerusalem. The statement followed al-Sharaa’s historic meeting with Trump in Washington.

TIMES OF ISRAEL Trump pressing Saudi crown prince to ink deal with Israel following Gaza truce Senior US official tells Axios message to MBS, expected at White House next week, is: ‘We did all the things you asked for. Now, there are things President Trump wants’

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BBC’s many lies: “101 of CAMERA’s complaints were upheld and BBC Arabic was forced to make 213 corrections to stories deemed biased, inaccurate or misleading”

Posted on November 13, 2025 by ArchitectGuy

CAMERA BLOG
CAMERA’S complaints of BBC bias vindicated by bombshell dossier
November 5, 2025

A leaked BBC dossier acknowledges serious editorial failures in BBC Arabic coverage, confirming and overlapping with years of research by the Committee for Accuracy in Middle East Reporting & Analysis (CAMERA). The 19-page internal memo by Michael Prescott, a former adviser to the BBC’s Editorial Guidelines and Standards Committee, accuses BBC Arabic of systemic anti-Israel bias, platforming extremist voices, and amplifying Hamas propaganda. The memo was reported by The Telegraph yesterday. Prescott’s findings mirror and expand upon documentation first publicly exposed by CAMERA UK and CAMERA Arabic researchers throughout the two years that followed October 7, 2023. READ MORE

JEWISH CHRONICLE Revealed: BBC’s complaints unit rejected every appeal by watchdog over Gaza stories The BBC’s internal complaints unit rejected every appeal against the BBC Arabic service submitted by an independent media watchdog during the course of the Gaza war, the JC can reveal. The revelation has prompted accusations that the corporation has a “culture of denial” in dealing with alleged bias against Israel in its coverage, and calls for a reform of the complaints system. US-based pro-Israel media watchdog, the Committee for Accuracy in Middle East Reporting and Analysis (CAMERA), has submitted more than 100 complaints about BBC Arabic’s coverage in the past two years.

JEWISH NEWS BBC’s 10 most shocking anti-Israel scandals exposed in damning dossier A memo sent to the BBC’s board sets out, in painstaking detail, the deep-seated problems within its reporting – including on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict

FREE PRESS Melanie Phillips: Defund the BBC The leadership of the UK’s public broadcaster has resigned amid a crisis of trust. That is not enough.

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“Five decades after its creation, it’s long past time for the Committee on the Exercise of the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People to be shut down”

Posted on November 13, 2025 by ArchitectGuy

FDD
Fifty Years of Gaslighting Israel at the U.N.
David May and Ben Cohen
November 10, 2025

…This gaslighting of Israel — in which no contention is too wild if it contributes to the depiction of the Jewish state as the world’s worst human rights abuser — has been CEIRPP’s sole purpose since it was created by the U.N. General Assembly exactly 50 years ago. The resolution authorizing CEIRPP was passed on the same day — November 10, 1975 — that the General Assembly approved perhaps the most infamous resolution in its history: Resolution 3379, which equated Zionism, the national liberation movement of the Jewish people, with “racism.” Chaim Herzog, the late Israeli ambassador to the United Nations, demonstratively tore up the resolution while standing at the General Assembly podium in New York. The late Daniel Patrick Moynihan, then the U.S. ambassador to the U.N., charged that “a great evil has been loosed upon the world . . . the abomination of antisemitism has been given the appearance of international sanction.” READ MORE

NY SUN Editors: The UN’s Worst Resolution Ever Few calumnies have enjoyed more success than the slander that Zionism is a form of racism. That formula was approved in United Nations General Assembly Resolution 3379, which passed 50 years ago Monday and ordained that “Zionism is a form of racism and racial discrimination.” The tally was 72 votes in favor, 35 votes against, and 32 abstentions. Even in the baleful history of the world body it is difficult to think of a more disgraceful démarche.

Hear Daniel Patrick Moynihan’s Response to the Passing of United Nations Resolution 3379

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“Mamdani’s victory has put rocket fuel behind the already delirious feeling among Muslim radicals that they are now on the cusp of conquering the West for Islam”

Posted on November 13, 2025 by ArchitectGuy

MELANIE PHILLIPS SUBSTACK
The Islamist Capture of New York
November 7, 2025

It’s not just that Mamdani may wreck the city through the expected multiple failures of his infantile magic money-tree wish list. It’s not just that his antisemitism and hatred of Israel make him a potential threat to the city’s Jewish community. More importantly, what’s happened is a major strategic victory for the Islamic world in its war against the West. Muslim activists are ecstatic that Mamdani has conquered New York — the city with the largest number of Jews outside Israel — for Islam. They’re linking this directly to the onslaught that they’ve mounted against the Jewish world for the past two years by weaponising Israel’s war of self-defence against Hamas in Gaza. Qatari journalists, reports MEMRI, have exulted that Mamdani’s victory was the outcome of the terrorist attacks in southern Israel on October 7, 2023. READ MORE

ALGEMEINER The Overton Window and Zohran Mamdani: How Antisemitism Became Respectable Again In politics, people talk about the Overton Window — the range of ideas society deems acceptable to discuss in public. It shifts with time. And over the past 15 years, no form of hate has moved more dramatically from taboo to tolerance than antisemitism.

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“There’s almost no anti-Jewish theme — dual loyalty, usury, sinister plotting — that Tucker doesn’t elevate, although he occasionally stipulates that he likes Israel and has no interest in talking about it”

Posted on November 12, 2025 by ArchitectGuy

JEWISH INSIDER
Cruz tells GOP: It’s time to stand up to Tucker Carlson
Gabby Deutch
November 7, 2025

Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) called on his Republican colleagues to speak out against Tucker Carlson, arguing in a fiery Friday morning speech that they need to rise above their fear of alienating the popular conservative podcaster to denounce his platforming of antisemitism. “It’s easy right now to denounce Nick Fuentes. That’s kind of safe. Are you willing to say Tucker’s name?” Cruz said in a speech at the Washington National Lawyers Convention of the Federalist Society, the conservative legal group…Cruz’s speech escalates a feud within the Republican Party about antisemitism on the party’s rightward fringes, after Carlson, the former Fox News host, held a friendly interview with Fuentes, a neo-Nazi agitator and commentator. READ MORE

NATIONAL REVIEW Tucker Carlson Outdoes Himself Fuentes is a Holocaust denier and self-avowed racist whose goal is to remake the right in his image. Carlson, who prides himself on asking the supposedly telling questions when it comes to promoting any number of conspiracy theories, couldn’t really bring himself to ask any of Fuentes. Instead, he gave the 27-year-old Nazi sympathizer a tongue bath and said at one point of the Fuentes ideological project, “I guess you won.”

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“Anti-Jewish libels are a social technology reshaping everything around us”

Posted on November 12, 2025 by ArchitectGuy

FREE PRESS
Mamdani and the New Racism
Adam Louis-Klein
November 11, 2025

Zohran Mamdani, a democratic socialist and now mayor-elect of New York City, has made his political identity inseparable from opposition to what he calls Zionism. He has characterized Israel as a settler-colonial project and demanded the United States end its support. He has accused Israel of genocide. On November 4, he became the most prominent American official yet to make this worldview his governing creed. His win cannot be understood merely as another data point in the story of “rising antisemitism.” To grasp its meaning, we need a broader frame—what we at the Movement Against Antizionism call the libel-cycle: a recurring civilizational pattern in which anti-Jewish libels spread through society, generate moral hysteria, and rapidly recode entire ideological systems into engines of anti-Jewish meaning. READ MORE

JEWISH JOURNAL David Suissa: Anti-Zionism Is Racism On Thurs, Nov. 13, the Consortium for Palestine Studies and the Palestinian Student Union will host a conference at UCLA that will revisit “Zionism as a form of racism.” Yes, you read that right. After accusing Zionism of the worst sins on the planet—from genocide to colonialism to apartheid—anti-Zionists are now bringing back the big one: “racism.” Needless to say, no one at the conference will be there to argue for the other side. No one will share, for example, that Zionism represents one of the peak moments in Jewish history—the return of a people to its biblical homeland after yearning for 1900 years to come home to Zion. 

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Kenneth Levin’s timely new book probes an age-old phenomenon, Jewish self-hatred

Posted on November 11, 2025 by ArchitectGuy

FRONT PAGE MAG
Understanding Jewish Self-Hatred
Bruce Bawer
November 14, 2025

…To be sure, even in FDR’s time, Jewish loyalty to the Democrats didn’t always make sense. During World War II, FDR chose not to bomb the railroad line to Auschwitz and strictly limited immigration by Jewish refugees. By contrast, the 1944 Republican platform was strongly pro-Zionist and took FDR to task for not pressuring the UK to let European Jews enter the Holy Land, then under British control. And where did America’s Jewish establishment stand? Mostly with Rabbi Stephen Wise, head of the American Jewish Committee, who was adamantly pro-FDR and called the GOP’s criticism of FDR “utterly unjust.” And why weren’t Wise and other American Jewish leaders more concerned about Jewish refugees? Simple: they worried that making too much noise about the subject would spark antisemitism. Yes, there were American Jews who labored tirelessly during the war to rescue Jewish refugees – but few of them were members of the Jewish establishment, whose resources and connections would have aided their work immeasurably. READ MORE

Order Kenneth Levin’s new book, ‘The Canary on the Couch: The Psychology of Jewish Self-Delusions in the Face of Rising Anti-Semitism’. Ken Levin is also the author of The Oslo Syndrome: Delusions of a People Under Siege

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Murray: “I don’t know another conflict in the world where one side tried again and again to destroy its neighbor, lost, and then expected everything to return to what it was before the war”

Posted on November 11, 2025 by ArchitectGuy

ISRAEL HAYOM (by agreement with JNS)
Douglas Murray has spent 20 years warning Europe about Islam – now he says Israel is the answer
Matan Hasidim/Makor Rishon
November 12, 2025

…Douglas Murray, has since become one of the prominent voices of the European conservative camp in the culture wars taking place in the West, and since October 7 also one of the most determined defenders of Israel’s right to fight those who seek its destruction. He knows what happens in Israel well and up close, and not just as an observer from the outside. His concern for the wellbeing of IDF soldiers, his familiarity with local public discourse (“Air Force officers who said before October 7 they wouldn’t report for service? An inconceivable phenomenon, when you think about it in hindsight”), the grief in his eyes when he speaks about families of the fallen, the joy when he mentions “the almost miraculous event” of the hostages’ return, and even the barbs he sent at Gideon Levy in a televised confrontation in Canada in June 2024 (“You could fit all your supporters in Israel into one phone booth”) – all these indicate that the man is involved and engaged in local issues no less than an average Israeli. READ MORE

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This week, on the 87th anniversary of Kristallnacht, the glass is breaking again

Posted on November 9, 2025 by ArchitectGuy

FUTURE OF JEWISH
Europe said “Never Again” — but it’s happening again.
Leo Pearlman
November 12, 2025

In 1938, on November 9th and 10th, Nazi Germany erupted in violence against its Jewish population. Synagogues were burned, Jewish businesses destroyed, and nearly 100 Jews murdered — while thousands were arrested and sent to concentration camps…This isn’t Nazi Germany. This is Britain in 2025, a nation that calls exclusion safety, that mistakes hate for principle, and where the broken glass now lies in the shattered trust between neighbours who were meant to share a nation. In 1938, the destruction was carried out by state-backed militias and civilians. In 2025, it is being carried out by our institutions, our paramilitaries, and our neighbours. The recently released Prescott Report confirmed what many of us already knew: that the BBC, our most trusted national institution, has harboured and perpetuated systemic antisemitism, gaslighting a minority community for years, while presenting our pain as political controversy. A state broadcaster has done to Jews what its microphones claim to expose in others: Normalise prejudice under the guise of neutrality. READ MORE

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