Dr. Medoff is founding director of The David S. Wyman Institute for Holocaust Studies; his most recent book is his most recent book is "The Road to October 7: Hamas, the Holocaust, and the Eternal War Against the Jews"
The playground in Jerusalem didn’t stop antisemitism, and renovating playgrounds in New York City is not likely to stop it there, either — because antisemitism in America today is not rooted in a lack of slides or swings.
The university is so worried that the dean of admissions and financial aid, William Fitzsimmons, announced that he will be making a special effort to target potential students in Jewish day schools.
The actual biographical details of terrorists tell a different story.
Even those self-described human rights groups that are strongly biased in favor of the Palestinian Arab cause acknowledge the PA’s systemic mistreatment of women.
The first two intifadas were confined to Israel and the territories it administers. But the Third Intifada has gone global.
Whether today’s distorters are motivated by callousness, political convenience, or simply ignorance, the result is the same — the Jews are still regarded as unmentionable.
Marwan Barghouti is not the first killer to enjoy Paul Simon’s friendly attention. That distinction belongs to Salvador Agron.
A century has passed, yet the notion that Jews are to blame for people hating them is still heard all too often. The difference is that today, the bigots focus on the Jewish state as the culprit.
It took 100 years, but the Vatican has finally agreed to surrender a kayak and other cultural artifacts that it stole from indigenous Canadian tribes for use in Pope Pius XI’s “Vatican Missionary Exposition” in 1925.