Congressman Says Jews Are Crazy
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.
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.
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.
The Zionist movement had always expected that the Negev desert would be part of the future Jewish state. But London and Washington had other ideas.
The president who presented himself to the public as a humanitarian and a champion of the downtrodden went out of his way to maintain good diplomatic and economic ties with the world’s most brutal violator of human rights.
The spark that ignited this literary dust-up is an essay in the September issue of Commentary by Rabbi Meir Soloveichik, supporting freedom of worship for Jews at Judaism’s holiest site, the Temple Mount plaza.
Sharing his observations of the new state in The Zionist Quarterly in the summer of 1951, Sugrue occasionally indulged in the kind of rhetoric typical of early journalistic affection for Israel— “weather-kissed kibbutzniks,” a taxi driver pointing out the hill “where Samson was born”— but mostly his essay was a heartfelt reflection on the meaning of the Jewish state and its place in the world.
A new poll claims that 22% of American Jews believe “Israel is committing genocide against the Palestinians.” That would be alarming—if they actually know what genocide is.
Even if the events in Lod differed in some important respects from the pogroms in Nazi Germany, the behavior of the mobs in Lod should at least warrant a serious communal discussion about these issues.
History offers a bipartisan alternative to constant public controversies and policy reversals.