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"
Public apologies of this sort have a certain symbolic value, since they represent a belated but necessary acknowledgment of historical truth. Whether or not the current mayor has truly learned from the mistakes of the past is another question.
There is an unfortunate century-long tradition of politicians and political activists embracing tyrants, terrorists and terror supporters.
Mohsen Mahdawi, the Columbia University student at the center of the current controversy, is one of the many Palestinian Arab children who grew up idolizing Dalal Mughrabi.
How did the Wesleyan administration relate to the actual Nazis and Nazi supporters on its Connecticut campus in the 1930s?
Haters of Israel understand that publicizing the truth about the Bibas murders generates sympathy for Israel and undermines the Palestinian Arab cause. That’s why they are trying to deny, or at least minimize, the Bibas killings.
When is a coloring book not just a coloring book? When its purpose is to incite children to hate Jews and glorify violence.
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.
This month marks the 40th anniversary of the publication of David S. Wyman’s “The Abandonment of the Jews,” a book that changed the way we think about our nation’s history — and also saved lives.
