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.
Wolf Blitzer’s Father and the Bombing of Auschwitz
Among other things, the elder Blitzer denounced the Roosevelt administration’s refusal to bomb the railways leading to Auschwitz.
Ken Burns Distorts FDR’s Policy on Jewish Refugees
Burns has announced that his forthcoming film will challenge the “myth” that President Franklin D. Roosevelt abandoned Europe’s Jews.
Famed Truman Biographer Got It All Wrong on Zionism
McCullough’s careless accusation against an American Zionist leader, made without any documentation, reminds us that even Pulitzer Prize winners can sometimes make mistakes—serious ones.
Antisemitism Without Antisemites
The GOP gubernatorial candidate, Doug Mastriano, was revealed to have been paying “consulting” fees to the social media platform Gab, a site where white supremacists and other antisemites regularly congregate.
Pelosi, Her Father, Taiwan and the Holocaust
Is Nancy Pelosi’s courageous decision to visit Taiwan connected to her father’s actions during the Holocaust?
When the IRS Targeted Jewish Activists
The Jewish target of U.S. government wrath in the 1940s was the Bergson Group, a political action committee led by Peter Bergson (Hillel Kook), a Zionist emissary from Palestine.
Russia and Auschwitz: First They Ignored It. Then They De-Judaized It. Now They’re Exploiting It.
Moscow continues to see the most notorious Nazi death camp as a tool to serve whichever political purpose the Kremlin happens to be pursuing at the moment.
80 Years Ago This Week: The Rubble That Could Have Been Jews
Today known as FDR Drive, it was renamed to honor a president who is deservedly revered for his many achievements, but whose legacy is tarnished by his tragic abandonment of the Jews.