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"
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.
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.
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.
What motivates Western universities to seek relationships with an institution that tolerates support for terrorism?
What happened during those years offers some insight as to what to expect if Gaza returns to self-rule after this war.
A prominent liberal journal that spoke out against the Nazi genocide has published an article accusing Israel of genocide, justifying the Hamas pogrom, and denying the Jewish state’s right to exist.
So how did Hamas acquire the cement, despite Israel’s blockade of such materials?
The position of the United States and its allies in World War II was that civilian deaths were an unfortunate but inevitable consequence of their war of self-defense. Israel’s approach to the issue is similar.
One struggles to understand how human beings could be capable of such savagery.
