“While older materials depicted Israel as aggressive and dismissive of peace, the updated curriculum attributed the roots of the conflict to the Arab rejection of the 1947 UN Partition Plan”

Posted on February 15, 2025 by ArchitectGuy

JPOST
Azerbaijan becomes first Muslim-majority country to define antisemitism in textbooks
February 14, 2025

A new report by the Institute for Monitoring Peace and Cultural Tolerance in School Education (IMPACT-se) revealed that Azerbaijan has made significant strides in its school curriculum, becoming the first Muslim-majority country to incorporate a definition of antisemitism into textbooks…The report highlights a positive depiction of Jews and Israel, alongside recognition of the Holocaust as the genocide of six million Jews. A notable update in the 2024-25 school year saw the removal of anti-Israel narratives, offering a more balanced view of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. READ MORE

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Hamas confirms it will release three hostages on Saturday as Israel pushes for all remaining living captives to be freed

Posted on February 13, 2025 by ArchitectGuy

JPOST
Israel expects Hamas to free three hostages Saturday, asks for more living captives
Amichai Stein
February 13, 2025

Israeli officials expect Hamas to deliver on Friday a list of three hostages to be released on Saturday, an Israeli official told The Jerusalem Post on Thursday. Qatari Prime Minister Al-Thani is expected to send the list to Mossad chief David Barnea. The release that is expected during the weekend follows Hamas’ threat earlier this week to withhold the hostages unless Israel fulfills its humanitarian obligations. Hamas claims that Israel has not allowed all the agreed-upon humanitarian aid to enter the Gaza Strip as stipulated in the agreement. On Thursday, Hamas stated that Israel had agreed to allow pre-fabricated housing and heavy equipment for rubble removal into Gaza. However, Prime Minister’s spokesperson Omer Dostri dismissed these reports as “fake news” in a post on X. READ MORE

JNS Fiamma Nirenstein: From Auschwitz to Gaza: The unfolding horror and its implications The event was a grotesque spectacle. The hostages, under the gaze of masked Hamas militants and Al Jazeera’s cameras, were made to listen to a speech before being forced to speak themselves. Eli Sharabi learned from his captors that his older brother, Yossi, also a hostage, had been murdered in captivity. Upon his return to Israel, he learned that his wife and two daughters were murdered in their home in Be’eri on Oct. 7, 2023. Ohad Ben Ami, whose mother lamented that he now looked like an 80-year-old man, was reunited with his wife, Raz, who had been kidnapped alongside him and was released in November 2023. Or Levy, who had been covered in his wife’s blood at the Nova music festival, where she was murdered—returned to his 3-year-old son, the only surviving member of his immediate family.

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#PayForSlay 17 Jewish and pro-Israel groups file brief on behalf of the terror victims

Posted on February 12, 2025 by ArchitectGuy

JEWISH INSIDER
Supreme Court to hear case on Palestinian Authority’s ‘martyr’ payments
Marc Rod
February 10, 2025

The Supreme Court is set to hear a case in the coming months to decide whether American victims of Palestinian terror attacks can sue the Palestine Liberation Organization and Palestinian Authority for damages based on support for such attacks through the “pay for slay” program that compensates individuals who have carried out attacks as well as their families. The Supreme Court cases — Fuld v. Palestine Liberation Organization and United States v. Palestine Liberation Organization, which the court will hear jointly — pertain to a decades-long series of litigation efforts by American terror victims and their families to sue the PLO and PA. In one case in 2015, a lower court awarded a group of victims more than $650 million. READ MORE

JNS PA signals offer to drop ‘pay for slay’ … if US repeals Taylor Force Act Mahmoud Abbas, head of the Palestinian Authority, suggested that payments to prisoners could be based on their socioeconomic status and not on acts committed, according to a report.

JPOST White House confirms war crimes prosecutor first target of ICC sanctions International Criminal Court Prosecutor Karim Khan is the first person to be hit with economic and travel sanctions authorized by US President Donald Trump that target the war crimes tribunal over investigations of US citizens or US allies…Reuters reported on Friday that Khan had been designated by Washington. The sanctions, which repeat action Trump took during his first term, include freezing of US assets of those designated and barring them and their families from visiting the United States.

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Why USAID is a national security threat

Posted on February 12, 2025 by ArchitectGuy

FRONT PAGE MAG
USAID Sent Over $18 Billion to Islamic Terror States
Daniel Greenfield
February 7, 2025

…USAID boasted of having sent $2.1 billion to Gaza and the West Bank since the Hamas attacks of Oct 7. In 2024 alone, $917 million was programmed for the terrorist areas occupying Israel…USAID allocated $1.1 billion to spend on Lebanon even as the country was run byHezbollah …USAID has sent $9.3 billion to Islamic terror states collectively responsible for killing over 3,000 American soldiers. Not only did Islamic terrorist states and groups kill us, but in the ultimate obscenity, we have rewarded them with millions of dollars for each of our murdered soldiers. READ MORE

NEW YORK POST Mark Dubowitz and Ben Cohen: USAID was rotten, but Trump needs the ‘soft power’ of foreign aid done right. Perhaps the best illustration of how USAID has misused its funding is found in the Middle East. In 2024, as the region reeled from the aftermath of the bestial atrocities committed by Hamas in Israel the previous year, the United States significantly boosted its financial support for projects in Gaza and the West Bank, spending more than $200 million of American taxpayers’ money in territories already rife with terrorist incitement and activity.

FREE BEACON At USAID, Funding for Terror-Tied Groups and Internal Hostility Toward Israel Goes Back Years In November 2022, for instance, USAID awarded $100,000 to a Palestinian activist group whose leaders hailed the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, a designated terror group. Just six days before Hamas’s Oct. 7 assault on Israel, USAID handed $900,000 “to a terror charity in Gaza involved with the son of Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh.”…A February report from the Middle East Forum think tank found that USAID had awarded “millions of federal dollars” to “organizations directly in Gaza controlled by Hamas.” In one Biden-era case, USAID funded an “educational and community center in Gaza” controlled by a local group called the Unlimited Friends Association.

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Makofsky: “No More Talk: It’s Time to Destroy Iran’s Nuclear Weapons Program”

Posted on February 12, 2025 by ArchitectGuy

BEGIN-SADAT CENTER
Israel and the Emerging Trends in Syria
Maj. Gen. (res.) Gershon Hacohen
February 4, 2025

…The Turkish orientation towards the leadership of [Syrian leader] al-Julani, leader of the rebels, warrants great concern. President Erdoğan has never hid his ambition to renew the Ottoman Empire. The prospect of an occupation of Damascus by Sunni Muslim forces has an exciting power that could reunify radical Islamic forces to the point of reestablishing an al-Qaeda state in Syria. The third purpose of the IDF’s operations in the region is to focus on these concerns. Meanwhile, under Erdoğan’s leadership, the Kurdish region east of the Euphrates River is under threat of a military attack meant to eliminate it. This will test the ability of the American administration to stand up for its Kurdish allies. READ MORE

JINSA No More Talk: It’s Time to Destroy Iran’s Nuclear Weapons Program But there have also been positive changes since Trump was last in the White House that make preventing a nuclear Iran much more feasible than perhaps any time before. Iran’s nuclear program now lies exposed and effectively unprotected thanks to Israel crushing Hamas, degrading Hezbollah and its rocket arsenal, demolishing Syria’s heavy weaponry, and wrecking Iran’s most capable air defense systems. Meanwhile, Israel’s defenses have held strong against repeated Iranian missile attacks, bolstered by American anti-missile batteries.

ASSOCIATED PRESS US draws ‘red line’ over including Hezbollah in Lebanon’s government, new envoy says A newly appointed U.S. envoy said Friday that she hoped Lebanese authorities were committed to making sure that the Hezbollah militant group isn’t a part of the new government in any form. Morgan Ortagus, a former U.S. State Department spokesperson and U.S. Navy Reserve officer, recently assumed the role of deputy special envoy for Middle East peace in President Donald Trump’s administration, replacing Amos Hochstein, who helped broker the ceasefire that ended the 14-month war between Israel and Hezbollah.

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CAMERA’s Israel office prompts correction of AP article this week, resulting in nearly 50 additional online corrections in media outlets across North America and beyond

Posted on February 12, 2025 by ArchitectGuy

CAMERA BLOG
Dozens of Corrections Published After AP Erases Convicted Prisoner’s Deadly Crime
February 12, 2025

CAMERA’s Israel office yesterday prompted correction of an Associated Press article which had erased the deadly crime of released Palestinian prisoner Imad Abu Aliya, resulting in nearly 50 additional corrections in media outlets across North America and beyond. Dozens of secondary media outlets which use AP content published the wire service’s significant correction, clarifying that the terrorist was convicted for intentional manslaughter and incitement, not simply affiliation with Hamas…AP editors agreed with CAMERA that a correction of the misinformation was in order, and commendably amended the passage to accurately report that “Imad Abu Aliya, was freed Saturday after serving four and a half years for a conviction of intentional manslaughter and anti-Israel incitement…” READ MORE

ALGEMEINER Yale Professor Exposes New York Times’ Systematic Minimization of Hamas, Palestinian Violence in Gaza War A recent analysis by a Yale professor claimed The New York Times‘ coverage of the Gaza conflict downplayed Israeli losses after the Hamas terror group’s Oct. 7, 2023, invasion…The study — published last month and conducted by Edieal Pinker, a professor and deputy dean at the Yale School of Management — examined 1,561 articles published by the Times between Oct. 7, 2023, and June 7, 2024. It concluded that the newspaper’s reporting adhered to a “specific narrative” in which Israel was largely portrayed as the primary aggressor while Palestinian suffering received dominant coverage.  

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“It’s time to stop being silent and respond to antisemites like Kanye West in the strongest way possible”

Posted on February 11, 2025 by ArchitectGuy

FORBES
Inside The Viral AI Video Of Celebrities Slamming Ye’s Hateful Remarks
Leslie Katz
February 13, 2025

In a dramatic video making the rounds on social media, more than a dozen Jewish celebrities condemn artist Ye for his most recent barrage of antisemitic remarks. Or so it seems. It turns out the video is AI-generated, though some argue that doesn’t make its message any less important or powerful. “For those who can’t tell, this video is AI generated, but it’s still amazing,” writer and entrepreneur Ed Krassenstein wrote after sharing the black and white video with his 1 million X followers on Tuesday. “The world needs to see this,” he said. The video shows celebrities including Sacha Baron Cohen, Drake, Scarlett Johansson, Mila Kunis, Jerry Seinfeld, Steven Spielberg, Ben Stiller and Mark Zuckerberg wearing the same white T-shirt featuring the back of a hand with a Jewish star on it, a middle finger raised. READ MORE

JPOST The Israeli behind the AI video that has everyone talking about Kanye’s antisemitism “We expected the video to gain traction, but we didn’t anticipate just how massive it would become,” says Guy Bar, the founder of AI tech hub Elevaitor.

VIEW THE VIDEO HERE

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“Any Arab who hears American officials say that Qatar is America’s ally would burst into laughter”

Posted on February 11, 2025 by ArchitectGuy

GATESTONE
‘Qatar is Hamas, and Hamas is Qatar’
Khaled Abu Toameh
February 11, 2025

The Israeli hostages kidnapped by Hamas and other Palestinians on October 7 could have been released a long time ago had the Biden administration exerted pressure on Qatar to use its good relations with the Islamist group to force it to do so. All Qatar had to do was to summon the Hamas leaders in Doha and give them an ultimatum to release all the hostages immediately or face deportation from the Gulf state. It is hard to see how the Hamas leaders would have been able to say no to their major political and financial patrons and backers…. The Qataris were never under the slightest pressure. READ MORE

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Cardoza-Moore: “Tucker Carlson’s antisemitism does not reflect the values of the Trump administration”

Posted on February 9, 2025 by ArchitectGuy

JPOST
Evangelical Christian Zionist slams Tucker Carlson’s ‘Jew-hatred’ at White House
February 10, 2025

Evangelical Christian Zionist leader Laurie Cardoza-Moore condemned conservative commentator Tucker Carlson after images surfaced over the weekend showing him posing with President Donald Trump and Elon Musk at the White House. “Tucker Carlson’s antisemitism does not reflect the values of the Trump administration,” said Cardoza-Moore on Monday, adding that Carlson “is the slightly savvier mentor of Candace Owens, peddling a new woke-right, fake-Christian form of Jew-hatred.” Cardoza-Moore, host of the syndicated television show Focus on Israel, which reaches billions of viewers globally, said she had been “inundated with calls from concerned Jews and Christians” following the images of Carlson wearing an oversized MAGA hat alongside Trump and Musk. READ MORE

ALGEMEINER Vast Majority of US Jews Reject Jewish Voice for Peace, Other Anti-Zionist Groups, Polling Data Shows A new poll released on Wednesday underscores how far removed Jewish Voice for Peace (JVP) and other anti-Zionist organizations that claim to represent Jews are from mainstream Jewish views on Israel, Zionism, and the ongoing conflict with the Palestinians…The findings also showed that Jews across the US overwhelmingly oppose the views and tactics of JVP, a prominent anti-Israel group which has helped organize widespread demonstrations against the Jewish state during the war in Gaza.

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At Chicago’s Latin School, antisemitic events leads to demand letter

Posted on February 9, 2025 by ArchitectGuy

DAILY MAIL
Elite $46,000-a-year Chicago school rocked by anti-Semitism claims as parents threaten to sue after band taunted Jewish students by playing Nazi anthem
Shawn Cohen
February 11, 2025

An elite $46,000-a-year private school has come under fire for alleged rampant bullying and anti-Semitism and parents are now demanding change or else, DailyMail.com has learned exclusively. The Latin School of Chicago is a K-12 institution with a history of privileged graduates such as Nancy Reagan and the children of Illinois billionaire Governor J.B. Pritzker. But the parents, after staying silent as problems spiraled out of control, say the bullying and anti-Semitism their children face has intensified to the point that they have hired a high-powered lawyer to force the ‘vanity board’ of trustees to act. READ MORE

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