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"
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?
In May 1924—100 years ago this week—Congress adopted, and President Harding signed, a permanent and more restrictive measure, known as the Johnson-Reed Act.
On the very same campus in Washington, DC, where that Nazi slogan was invoked last month, actual Nazis were repeatedly welcomed in the years before World War II.
“I condemn the antisemitic protests,” President Biden said on April 22. For some reason, he felt compelled to add: “I also condemn those who don’t understand what’s going on with the Palestinians.”
Perhaps the most remarkable chapter in Friedman’s history of verbally accosting Israeli prime ministers concerns the tenure of Ehud Olmert, whose policies and positions arguably were the most left-of-center of any Israeli leader in many decades.
Garry Trudeau, the writer and artist of Doonesbury, has dared to acknowledge a fact about the Hamas leadership that most of the mainstream news media prefer to ignore.
The world of antisemitism has become so muddled that it’s almost impossible to tell one from the other.
There was a troubling precedent for Dean Doucet’s actions during the Nazi years, when President Franklin D. Roosevelt and his administration repeatedly downplayed or denied the Jewish identity of Hitler’s victims.
In an April 30, 2018 speech to the Palestinian National Council, Abbas explained the “reasons” why Jews were massacred throughout history, from the pogroms of the Middle Ages to the Holocaust.
