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Rafael Medoff

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.

Stop Psychoanalyzing Israel

For years, some critics of Israel have advocated the idea that Israelis have been collectively traumatized by the Holocaust, a kind of mental disorder that renders them incapable of making rational decisions.

Hitler Youth in Gaza

Raising children to kill, whether in Nazi Germany in the 1930s or in Gaza today, always has deadly consequences.

Gaza Laborers’ Troubling Role in the Pogrom

During the year preceding the October 7 pogrom, the number of Gazans permitted to enter Israel usually fluctuated between 10,000 and 15,000. Now we know, from the Washington Post, that those workers were the source of much of Hamas’s information.

FDR’s Warning About Raising Kids to Kill

In our own era, it is no secret that anti-Israel and antisemitic propaganda permeates the Palestinian Arab educational system. That system helps produce teenage killers such as Muhammad Al-Faroukh.

BBC Censored Another Herzog — in 1944

The BBC last week censored parts of its interview with Israeli president Isaac Herzog, cutting out sections in which he cited uncomfortable facts about British policy. Remarkably, he’s not the first Herzog to be censored by the BBC.

Poisoning the Jews, Then and Now

During the 1920s and 1930s, the Mufti instigated mass Arab violence against the Jews and British authorities in Mandatory Palestine. Then he fled to Baghdad, where, in 1941, he helped engineer a short-lived pro-Nazi coup.

Queen of the Pogrom-Deniers

The Queen of Jordan shouldn’t be surprised that Israel’s enemies are capable of such horrors. After all, her own country’s troops committed nearly identical atrocities against numerous Israeli Jews during the 1948 war.

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