Today is Yom HaShoah, an international day of mourning for victims of the Holocaust. I have written often here on this subject. When I was a graduate student I compiled the oral history of an Auschwitz survivor, publishing it in the Los Angeles Times on Yom Hashoah 1977. In the 1990s, I visited Theresienstadt while leading a New York Jewish Federation … [Read more...]
Senior Rabbis at Israeli Military Prep School Say “Hitler was Right”
Israel's Channel 13 aired recordings (the Jerusalem Post has a highly truncated version of the story) of two senior rabbis at the Orthodox military preparatory academy in the settlement of Eli, as they taught their students lessons on race, the Holocaust, and the evils of "secular pluralism." Rabbi Eliezer Kashtiel lectured his students: "Yes, we're … [Read more...]
New Zealand and Israel: White Terror-Jewish Terror
NOTE: I used a juxtaposition in the title above between "Jewish" and "white" terror. I did that because Jewish terrorists like Meir Kahane and his followers, who now control the Israeli government, advocated a Jewish racialist state. They believed and believe in the use of terror to achieve it. But it might be more apt to call this phenomenon "Israeli" … [Read more...]
Rafi Eitan: Israel’s Notorious Spymaster, Deconstructed
NOTE: As a freelance journalist you look for major events for which you believe your editors might wish to commission a piece. Such was the occasion of Rafi Eitan's death. As it happens, none of my media outlets were interested in my pitch about this. But I think his story offers many lessons regarding the use and abuse of Israel's intelligence … [Read more...]
