News and updates about FDR

Why do so many young Americans hate Israel?

Too many young people choose to base their views on misleading Instagram photos, biased college professors, and radical ideologies that falsely paint Israel as a “white supremacist” state. it is not the first time. Op-ed.

Why do so many young Americans hate Israel?

Honoring distorters of FDR's response to the Holocaust

What makes the Burns-Novick-Botstein claim about FDR and refugees in their film troubling is that it’s not true. Op-ed.

Honoring distorters of FDR's response to the Holocaust

Biden challenges FDR on not bombing Auschwitz

It’s not easy for a politician to criticize a popular ex-president from his own party. That's why it is significant. Op-ed.

Biden challenges FDR on not bombing Auschwitz

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Shattering another excuse for FDR's Holocaust apathy

The Allies constantly bombed railway lines throughout Europe, despite the Germans repairing them, just not the ones to Auschwitz. Op-ed.

Shattering another excuse for FDR's Holocaust apathy

All FDR said was ‘No'

The 1943 Bermuda Conference and the abandonment of the Jews. Op-ed.

All FDR said was ‘No'

The Schlesinger Diaries - new and troubling revelations

The diaries are a gift that keeps on giving for historians on many topics. This is the account of a troubling one about lies and truth.Op-ed

The Schlesinger Diaries - new and troubling revelations

Rosh Hashanah when America's most prominent rabbi criticized FDR

Rabbi Stephen Wise criticized FDR publicly just this onece and never did so again, more's the pity. Op-ed..

Rosh Hashanah when America's most prominent rabbi criticized FDR

Was FDR a victim of the Deep State?

Good try but the State Department was implementing FDR’s policy, not sneaking around behind the president’s back. Op-ed.

Was FDR a victim of the Deep State?

The JTA and the bombing of Auschwitz

In July 1944 the JTA ran a dispatch from London reporting that recent escapees from Auschwitz were urging it be bombed. FDR said no. Op-ed.

The JTA and the bombing of Auschwitz

Has Wolf Blitzer’s father pulled the rug from under Ken Burns?

Wolf Blitzer's father and the bombing of Auschwitz. Op-ed.

Has Wolf Blitzer’s father pulled the rug from under Ken Burns?

Ken Burns distorts FDR's policy on Jewish Refugees

Burns' claim that FDR took in more Jews during the Holocaust than other country is simply false. Is the rest of the movie the same? Op-ed.

Ken Burns distorts FDR's policy on Jewish Refugees

Pelosi, her father, Taiwan and the Holocaust

Nancy Pelosi's role model a man who courageously put his humanitarian principles above his narrow political needs.Op-ed.

Pelosi, her father, Taiwan and the Holocaust

The rubble that could have been Jews

80 years ago this week, the USA decided that rubble from Bristol was worth saving and that Jews were not. Op-ed.

The rubble that could have been Jews

The lesson of Jan Karski for our world

He witnessed WWII dehumanization of Jews, their, devastation and death. He went on to report to Western leaders who ignored him. Op-ed.

The lesson of Jan Karski for our world

FDR's Jewish problem and its Japanese link

FDR viewed Jews and those he called "Orientals" with automatic suspicion, with devastating results for both groups. Op-ed.

FDR's Jewish problem and its Japanese link

Kristallnacht must be remembered

One asks, how could the entire world stand by and allow such a disaster to occur? It had no qualms, talking big and doing nothing. Op-ed.

Kristallnacht must be remembered

Kate Couric wasn't the first: FDR, Truman and the Jews

Read FDR and Harry Truman's offensive and antisemitic remarks about Jews, omitted or revised by those who ran the cutting room.Op-ed.

Kate Couric wasn't the first: FDR, Truman and the Jews

Blinken's gaffe

The secretary of state made it sound as if it was Ass't Sec of State Long, not FDR, who kept the US from aiding European Jews.Op-ed.

Blinken's gaffe

Despising Liberal coercion and hypocrisy

The American Left feels, for the first time since Franklin Roosevelt, that they are safe to coerce Americans to adhere like lemmings. Op-ed.

Despising Liberal coercion and hypocrisy

'Everybody did it' is no excuse for FDR abandoning the Jews

It changes nothinng to know that many Americans besides FDR knew, but did nothing, about the Holocaust. He was the president. Op-ed.

'Everybody did it' is no excuse for FDR abandoning the Jews

Reflections on Pearl Harbor Day

Japan's surprise attack on the US naval base caused the US to enter WWII. As FDR said, it is "a date that will live in infamy:" Op-ed.

Reflections on Pearl Harbor Day

Stop whitewashing FDR's abandonment of the Jews

Documents show that State Dep't officials briefed the president on their efforts to keep refugees out. FDR simply did not want Jews.Op-ed.

Stop whitewashing FDR's abandonment of the Jews

Two forgotten heroes: Peter Bergson and Ben Hecht, 1943

The unlikely duo tried desperately-and creatively-to get FDR and influential US Jews to help save European Jewry, but to no avail. Op-ed.

Two forgotten heroes: Peter Bergson and Ben Hecht, 1943

Kristallnacht must never be forgotten

Jews must be on guard to fight anti-Semitism, but in 1938, no one could imagine the future. Now we know it can happen anywhere..Op-ed.

Kristallnacht must never be forgotten

Joe Biden, FDR, and the Nazis

FDR cut out all references to Germany and to Hitler, Goebbels and other Nazis out of his response to Kristallnacht. Op-ed.

Joe Biden, FDR, and the Nazis

Jews for Biden – you can’t be serious

It’s safe to vote Republican. Take the plunge. Nobody is watching. In fact, FDR has been gone for some time. Opinion.

Jews for Biden – you can’t be serious

The Democrats’ abandonment of the Jews

We stand in the final hour of a critical decision, depleted of all excuses for former political loyalty. And we know it. Op-ed.

The Democrats’ abandonment of the Jews

The Saudis, the Jews, and FDR's dog

The Saudis, the Jews, and FDR's dog

Why those Syrian atrocities still matter

Why those Syrian atrocities still matter

The Labor Zionist movement and the bombing of Auschwitz

The Labor Zionist movement and the bombing of Auschwitz

July 1938: The evil Evian Conference on the Jews

July 1938: The evil Evian Conference on the Jews

What we can't forget when we remember Anne Frank

What we can't forget when we remember Anne Frank

Why FDR wouldn't condemn Hitler

Why FDR wouldn't condemn Hitler

Rescuing Jews, despite FDR

Rescuing Jews, despite FDR

When Jewish politics trumped Holocaust rescue

When Jewish politics trumped Holocaust rescue

FDR gets credit for his response to Kristallnacht. He shouldn't

FDR gets credit for his response to Kristallnacht. He shouldn't

The day the rabbis marched in Washington right before Yom Kippur

The day the rabbis marched in Washington right before Yom Kippur

Study: US Holocaust Museum's new exhibit distorts FDR's record

Study finds museum distorts, minimizes President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s abandonment of Jewish refugees during Holocaust.

Study: US Holocaust Museum's new exhibit distorts FDR's record

REWRITING HISTORY AT THE HOLOCAUST MUSEUM: Why FDR abandoned the Jews

REWRITING HISTORY AT THE  HOLOCAUST MUSEUM: Why FDR abandoned the Jews

US HOLOCAUST MUSEUM TRIES TO RESCUE FDR: Keeping the Jews out

US HOLOCAUST MUSEUM TRIES TO RESCUE FDR: Keeping the Jews out

The Rabbis March on Washington, 1943

The Rabbis March on Washington, 1943

A Diaspora mentality or a Jewish disease?

A Diaspora mentality or a Jewish disease?

Words that presidents won't say

Words that presidents won't say

Melania blames the Jews

Melania blames the Jews

Anti-Semitism and Jewish Dissonance on the 2016 Campaign Trail

Anti-Semitism and Jewish Dissonance on the 2016 Campaign Trail

"Complicit": FDR's Refusal to Save the Jews on the MS St. Louis

"Complicit": FDR's Refusal to Save the Jews on the MS St. Louis

Bibi Isn't the 1st Jewish Leader Stung by White House

Bibi Isn't the 1st Jewish Leader Stung by White House

Is the US Finally Confronting Genocide?

Is the US Finally Confronting Genocide?

FDR's Anti-Semitic Cocktails - with Molotov

FDR's Anti-Semitic Cocktails - with Molotov