That text you quoted says that “Jews get the distinction”, i.e. they get to be the only group of people being referred to as Semites. It does not say that “the Jews” or even “the Israelis” are responsible for the propaganda, which seems to be how you understood it?
If you haven’t used Linux before, just know that Garuda might not be the most stable. It wasn’t for me at least, I had to rescue it often. But that might have been because I didn’t use/update it regularly enough.
No, you can’t have mandatory payment for DRM-free media. That’s why all bookstores operate on an honour system and let you walk out of the store without paying for the books you take with you.
That’s the thing. They don’t make their camera app available to third party ROMs despite officially cooperating with one, and they also haven’t made the camera’s features available to third party camera apps. So for me, being on CalyxOS myself, that announcement email read like a joke.