Saturday, August 15, 2026

ERASURE
I hope that you'll consider making Israeli shakshuka or snacking on Israeli hummus this weekend. Denying Jewish indigeneity, culture, and historical experience makes Israel appear foreign and Jewish claims to culture and homeland illegitimate. The delegitimization of Israeli food is a predictable outgrowth of a broader campaign to denigrate Israel.  https://honestreporting.com/written-out-the-cultural-erasure-of-the-jewish-people/ and https://www.commentary.org/articles/gilead-ini/israeli-food-antizionist-palestinians/ and https://www.jewishrefugees.org.uk/2026/08/to-deny-mizrahi-food-is-to-finish-the-expulsion-by-other-means.html
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ON WAR
EmojiWhen one must do war, the ideal sequence is simple: War leads to victory or defeat, then renewed peace. Russia's invasion of Ukraine and Hamas' invasion of Israel show once again that long, attritional wars aren’t relics of the past; Iran may be the latest proof.
EmojiA July 2026 survey by the Group for Analyzing and Measuring Attitudes in Iran (GAMAAN) revealed that 51% of surveyed Iranians hold a positive view of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, while only 13% expressed a desire to live under the ruling Islamic Republic, highlighting deep public alienation from the regime.
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GOP Probes Muslim Brotherhood's U.S. Influence as Democrats Boycott Hearing
Dalia Ziada: Those who boycotted the hearing or dismissed it as "anti-Muslim" are simply wrong. The fight against the Muslim Brotherhood is not a fight against Islam or Muslims.
Democrats blast Republicans over concern about targeting Muslim communities 
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More than 40 organizations from around the world have joined together in a campaign aiming to debunk 'Hamas genocidal propaganda' about the Gaza war. The genocide libel has emboldened open support for terror organizations and antisemitic rhetoric, especially after the October 7 massacre. The delegitimization pattern began in 1975, as part of an effort by the Arab countries and the USSR to hurt the U.S. and Israel. The goal remains the same: to isolate and remove Israel and the Jews from the community of nations. 
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CONSIDER THE SOURCE
EmojiHow the American Media (NBC, CNN, AP) Erased the Resume of Their Terror-Tied Gaza Source 

EmojiHonest Reporting has an excellent thread calling out recent ridiculously biased stories like NY Magazine's latest issue filled with Jewish erasure, genocide inversion, and rabid antizionist vitriol in “Habibi City;”  but these stories are not ridiculous because when you read this over and over, it starts to sound like the truth. Israeli food is theft. Israeli dance music is fascistic escapism. Air-conditioning and missile defense reveal a diseased national “cocoon.” A real-estate ad is a gateway to selling property over “mass graves.” Protecting one’s identity in a photo is an “admission of guilt.” https://x.com/HonestReporting/status/2087242759023337939?s=20

EmojiNPR is misleading audiences and presenting factually false descriptions. Twice in the last three weeks on State of the World, NPR described Judea and Samaria, aka the West Bank, as "Israeli occupied Palestinian territory." Classifying any part of the "West Bank" as Israeli or Palestinian runs counter to the "widely supported, international understanding that exact borders will be determined in final status negotiations." https://www.camera.org/article/npr-enters-the-map-making-business/

EmojiReuters published a 15-paragraph article and two-minute video explaining who the newly-appointed secretary of Iran's Supreme National Security Council is. Absent from this story was any mention of the Interpol warrant out for the former IRGC commander-in-chief Mohsen Rezaei for his role in the bombing of a Jewish community center in Argentina in 1994 in which 85 people were murdered. https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/who-is-irans-mohsen-rezaei-hardliner-appointed-key-security-role-2026-08-10/

EmojiDrop Site News whitewashes terrorism, shares Hamas talking points, and justifies anti-Israel violence hired someone, Ismail Nofal, who celebrates terrorism. https://x.com/EFischberger/status/2087259157145506261?s=20
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CHINA
Code Pink, China and its media tentacles (including China Times) promote anti-Israel and anti-American propaganda.
EmojiChina is suspected of funding pro-Palestine marches in the UK.
Code Pink Founder Medea Benjamin's radical ‘charity’ ordered To cease operations, as US ups pressure on charity’s shadowy benefactor, Neville Roy Singham.  Jodie Evans, co-founder of Code Pink, is married to Neville Roy Singham, a Maoist American tech mogul who funds far-left causes from his base in Shanghai and who's currently the subject of a Justice Department criminal probe.  
EmojiChinese Chatbots Push Propaganda to Western Users https://open.substack.com/pub/newsguardtech/p/chinese-chatbots-push-propaganda
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MECCA PACT
Links to three views of the new defense alliance between Saudi Arabia, Turkey and nuclear-armed Pakistan. Is it likely to pose a serious long-term threat to Israel? If the Mecca Pact was built to deter iran, its biggest missing piece is Israel. How can any serious architecture for containing Iran leave Israel out?
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PALESTINIANS
The International Stabilization Force has begun setting up bases and preparing for ground operations in Gaza. Hamas still isn't disarmed and Fatah has denounced the force as an addional occupation of the Gaza strip. Despite the catastrophe it brought upon Palestinians in Gaza by launching the Oct. 7 attack, Hamas remains popular among Palestinians. Polling by the Palestinian Center for Policy and Survey Research has shown Hamas maintaining a substantial advantage over Fatah in party preference and in a hypothetical parliamentary election. 69% of the Palestinians oppose disarming Hamas. 86% said they did not believe that Hamas committed the atrocities against Israeli civilians depicted in videos from Oct. 7. https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/22788/hamas-secret-weapon-elections
Journalists Syndicate says Hamas gives healthy people medical evacuations for $30,000
ON CAMPUS
Haverford College announced a settlement to a lawsuit by Jewish students. The college said for the first time that discrimination against “Zionists,” or against Jews on the basis of their commitment to Israel’s existence, is a civil-rights violation that will incur discipline https://www.haverford.edu/president/news/message-president-raymond-0 and https://www.wsj.com/opinion/haverford-admits-its-antisemitism-problem-af3bcd53
Cambridge University has appointed Farah Ahmed as Assistant Professor of Education,  a former supporter of Hizb ut-Tahrir, now banned as a terror group, and a woman who called Western education a “threat” to Muslims and democracy a “corrupt tradition.”  https://spectator.com/article/the-problems-with-the-faculty-of-education-go-beyond-jason-arday/
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