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...]
BREAKING: Settler Suspects in Murder of Palestinian Mother Name Alleged Killer
מקור ביטחוני: צבי נריה לב הוא הקטין שהושאר במעצר בחשד לרצח הפלסטינית עאישה א-ראבי. ארבעת חבריו שוחררו לאחר שהפלילו אותו In a follow-up of my reporting which broke the original story concerning settlers suspected of murdering Palestinian mother of eight, Aisha Rabi, Israeli media reports that four of the five suspects in custody have been remanded to house … [Read more...]
Israel Privileges Jews, But Only the “Right” Jews
From the first moment Zionists discovered another people lived in Palestine, the Zionist movement has faced a fatal dilemma. Because Zionism declares that it is the national movement of self-determination of the Jewish people. There is no provision in Zionism for another people existing in the land of Israel. Thus, from its inception Zionism deprecated … [Read more...]
The Atlantic and NY Times’ Normalization of the Alt-Right
Both Jeffrey Goldberg, elevated a little over a year ago to managing editor of The Atlantic, and his predecessor and mentor, James Bennet, now the NY Times op-ed page editor, have embarked on a process of normalizing the alt-right, via hiring its devotés to grace their respective pages. The latest instance is Goldberg's hiring of the deeply misogynist, … [Read more...]
