Rape as an Arab Terrorist’s Weapon
This is not the first time Palestinian Arab terrorists have employed sexual violence as a weapon.
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.
This is not the first time Palestinian Arab terrorists have employed sexual violence as a weapon.
The past two years have seen large increases—34% in 2021 and 36% in 2022. What is unclear is how much of the increase is due to more reporting of incidents, not more antisemitism; and how many of the incidents fit the ADL’s definition of antisemitism but not the FBI’s.
Since celebrity antisemites have more fans than lesser-known bigots, they tend to enjoy more protection from excuse-makers.
Jewish disillusionment over the behavior of Palestinian Arab leaders is not a new phenomenon.
The honorees, Lynn Novick and Sarah Botstein, co-directed the recent Ken Burns documentary, “The U.S. and the Holocaust.”
During the Holocaust, too, the U.S. government received information about mass murder but chose to look away.
Raising children to kill, whether in Nazi Germany in the 1930s or in the Middle East today, always has deadly consequences.
Two years ago, the U.S. State Department determined that the Chinese government is carrying out “ongoing genocide” against the Uyghurs, including slave labor, torture, forced sterilizations, and the imprisonment of “more than one million civilians.”
Long forgotten but deeply deserving of remembrance, J. George Fredman was part of the national leadership in the American Jewish community only briefly—but at exactly the right moment, when the community needed him most.
The Saudis’ takeover of the Professional Golfers’ Association of America (PGA) is just the latest in a series of attempts by dictators to use sports to divert attention from human rights abuses.