Strange Choice for U.S. Holocaust Council
The appointment was one of President Biden’s final acts in office, and one of his strangest.
Dr. Medoff is founding director of The David S. Wyman Institute for Holocaust Studies; his most recent book is The Jews Should Keep Quiet: Franklin D. Roosevelt, Rabbi Stephen S. Wise, and the Holocaust.
The appointment was one of President Biden’s final acts in office, and one of his strangest.
Since there isn’t any evidence to prove Israel is committing genocide in Gaza, what’s the next best thing? Invent a new kind of “cide” and see how many scholars are gullible enough, or malevolent enough, to go along with it.
It turns out that the brutal hit resulting in the suspension of an NFL player is not the only kind of violence the culprit embraces—he also appears to endorse Hamas violence.
As the New York Yankees and Los Angeles Dodgers square off in this year’s World Series, old-timers recall the first time the two teams met in the Fall Classic, in 1941.
The latest object of Tinsel Town’s misplaced adoration is Bisan Atef Owda, a filmmaker who has circulated antisemitic tweets and has publicly embraced the terrorist Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP).
As they did in 1944, the Republicans today have thrown down the gauntlet. Can the Democrats match that, given the sentiment toward Israel among some segments of their party?
President Biden’s position is consistent with the definition of antisemitism that has been adopted by the 33 countries belonging to the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance.
Major news outlets that have been devoting disproportionate attention to Gaza have paid scant attention to what’s been happening in New Caledonia.
Last year, the Saudis gave the United States additional reason to hold back weapons: human rights groups revealed that Saudi Arabian border guards had slaughtered “hundreds, perhaps thousands” of unarmed African civilians.
In a region where over 200,000 people were slaughtered just twenty years ago, all the activists who have been yelling at Israel suddenly seem to have lost their voices. Why?