In many universities in pre-World War II Poland, antisemitic faculty and students humiliated Jewish students by forcing them to sit in the back of classrooms. Those areas came to be known as the "ghetto benches."

Rabbi Stephen S. Wise, the foremost American Jewish leader of the 1930s and 1940s, is widely remembered as a staunch supporter of President Franklin...

According to Ken Burns’s narrative, President Franklin Roosevelt wanted to help the Jews in Europe but was obstructed and undermined by his own State Department.

While most of the American news media looked away, the Jewish Telegraphic Agency in 1944 repeatedly publicized appeals to the Allies to bomb Auschwitz...

Has Wolf Blitzer’s father just pulled the rug out from under filmmaker Ken Burns?

Burns has announced that his forthcoming film will challenge the “myth” that President Franklin D. Roosevelt abandoned Europe’s Jews.

McCullough’s careless accusation against an American Zionist leader, made without any documentation, reminds us that even Pulitzer Prize winners can sometimes make mistakes—serious ones.

The Republican nominee for governor of Pennsylvania, pressed by the media about his association with an outspoken antisemite, last week condemned “antisemitism in any form” — yet refused to condemn the antisemite with whom he has been associating. 

Is Nancy Pelosi’s courageous decision to visit Taiwan connected to her father’s actions during the Holocaust?

Seventy-five years ago this week, the incredible voyage of the refugee ship Exodus captured the hearts and minds of the international community. The lively and provocative political...

The Jewish target of U.S. government wrath in the 1940s was the Bergson Group, a political action committee led by Peter Bergson (Hillel Kook), a Zionist emissary from Palestine.

Russia’s complicated and disturbing record concerning Auschwitz just got a little more complicated, and a lot more disturbing.

Today known as FDR Drive, it was renamed to honor a president who is deservedly revered for his many achievements, but whose legacy is tarnished by his tragic abandonment of the Jews.

One hundred years ago this week, the United States Congress unanimously embraced Zionism.

“Terrorizing, torturing and killing civilians” … “a sadistic days-long killing spree” ... “victims buried in mass graves” … “pillaging and destruction of homes.” These are...

The editors of the Harvard student newspaper are urging a boycott of the Jewish state, and praising a campus group that has celebrated a...

When a Hollywood celebrity makes a ludicrous remark, it’s easy to shrug it off. But when the foreign minister of a major country spouts such lies, it’s much more troubling.

Why is Russian Television suddenly interested in how U.S. journalists covered Hitler?

With the approach of Holocaust Memorial Day (Yom HaShoah) comes yet another wave of attempts to distort the Holocaust in order to advance various political or social agendas.

Greg Gutfeld is mad at me. Why? Because I compared his conspiracy theory that journalists are exaggerating Ukrainian suffering, to the accusations made during...

Fox personality Greg Gutfeld asserted that stories showing the suffering of Ukrainian civilians “have sped up and are accumulating to create a narrative — and they only go in one direction.”

"Irish, sympathetic, hates British, will definitely help.”  So read an entry in the diary of Brooklyn housewife Esther Kaplan, after meeting with Rep. John...

What does FDR’s mass internment of the Japanese have to do with his response to the Holocaust? More than you might think.

What is not widely known is that the history of the Tuskegee pilots is connected to the controversy over the Roosevelt administration’s refusal to bomb Auschwitz. 

New York Governor Kathy Hochul is calling for term limits for statewide elected officials, following in the footsteps of California and many other states...

It has often been said that if only the State of Israel had existed in the 1940s, its air force could have bombed Auschwitz, interrupting the gassing of countless innocents.

Eighty years ago this month, two tiny French islands near Nova Scotia and Maine briefly became the center of international controversy when De Gaulle’s Free French liberated them—and President Franklin D. Roosevelt demanded that they be given back to the pro-Nazi Vichy French.

Congressman Bowman is not the first observer to make the insulting and false claim that Israeli Jews are mentally disturbed as a result of the Holocaust.

Smuggled diaries remain one of the most valuable eyewitness accounts of the fate of the Jews in the Nazi era.

Couric joins a growing list of authors who have altered the unflattering words of individuals whom they admire, in order to shield them from embarrassment.