Dr. Alex Grobman

Israel is the ultimate response

Israel exists precisely because Jews learned, at unbearable cost, that eloquence without power is fragile, and law without force is often meaningless. Opinion.

The Warmonger Default:

How ancient canards shape modern foreign policy myths

The lie claiming that Jews are the hidden hand behind wars - this time the Iran War - has followed the Jewish people from Shushan to Des Moines to September 11 to the present.

The ashes were still warm:

When Israel’s flag rose over the ruins of Europe

In a displaced persons camp in Salzburg, just days after the 5th of Iyar 5708, Holocaust survivors did not merely hear that the Jewish state had been declared. They saw redemption take form before their eyes.

Deir Yassin and the birth of the anti-Israel blood libel

The battle at Deir Yassin was turned into a fabricated “massacre," helping launch a strategy of demonization that is still used against Israel today. Opinion.

Holocaust Memorial Day:

Why the Holocaust was different

Yom Hashoah demands clarity. Nazi antisemitism was not another round of oppression, however cruel, but something far more sinister. And Yom Hashoah is not only what happened then, but what we do now. Opinion.

Once Jewish blood was cheap. To the world, it still is

The Hadassah convoy massacre should be remembered as part of a much larger and uglier truth: when Jews are murdered, the world finds ways to excuse it, explain it, or ignore it. Opinion.

The Canary on the Couch:

The anatomy of American Jews' communal surrender to antisemitism

In "The Canary on the Couch", psychiatrist Kenneth Levin analyzes not just the Jewish community itself, but the psychological health of its leadership. Review.

A Century of False Alarms:

The persistent myth of Al-Aqsa “In Danger"

The PA is skewing the Home Front's rules meant for protection of worshipers during the ongoing war to claim danger to Al Aksa and incite the Arab population. This is nothing new.

Goebbels then, Social Media now:

Why Holocaust language Is a propaganda weapon

Words don’t merely describe reality. In the wrong hands, they manufacture it. Opinion.

Call It What It Is:

Judea, Samaria, and Gaza - not “the West Bank"

There was a good article recently in the Wall Street Journal about the need to start using Judea and Samaria instead of the 'West Bank'. Since, however, it lacks much needed historical background, a respected historian filled inthe gap for Arutz Sheva readers. Op-ed.

To US Vice Pres. Vance:

The Holocaust: ‘A Primordial Act' whose primary victims were Jews

When JD Vance spoke of “millions of lives lost" in the Holocaust without saying Jews or Nazis, that wasn’t nuance. That was historical erasure. Six million Jews were murdered by Nazi Germany because of antisemitism. If you can’t say that sentence cleanly, you’re not being careful. You’re being dishonest. You're sayiing that Jewish specificity is inconvenient. Op-ed.

Misconceptions about the Wannsee Conference (January 20, 1942)

Wannsee remains historically significant for a chilling reason: it reveals how a modern state can coordinate mass murder through routine administration. Opinion.

The greatest Holocaust memorial is not a museum, it is Israel

The Mandate for Palestine conferred the right of the Jews to settle anywhere between the Jordan River and the Mediterranean Sea. This entitlement has not been changed in international law. Opinion.

For Holocaust Remembrance Day:

The Shoah: “An Event of Overbearing Magnitude”

What is so alarming about the Holocaust is the involvement of average people, many of whom participated not so much out of hatred of Jews, but because this was part of their job. And then there is the intelligentsia. Opinion.

Dew of Revival:

First letters of people of faith after the Holocaust

Elie Weisel famously said: 'If anything can, it is memory that will save humanity.' While antisemitism sweeps the globe, it is time to remember, act, and place our faith in G-d. A book that expresses those feelings in Holocaust survivors' own words. Review.

"We Will Rise":

Jewish resistance in WWII: A desperate cry for future generations

Ben Shapiro's musical 'We Will Rise' on the Warsaw Ghetto and October 7th is set to open in Israel this week. A historian's prelude, below, shows Jewish resistance in WWII in tragic perspective. Never again. Op-ed.

A look at the Holocaust shows the Dutch acting true to form today

The Dutch did not save the Jews during the Holocaust, they betrayed them during the war and afterwards. Except for a very few, their actions toward Jews went from active hostility to indifference. Opinion.

A Harris victory means a fourth Obama term

Remembering what that means: Obama refused to recognize that Israel’s leaders might have a better grasp of the situation than he did. He also thought it wrong that they would prioritize their nation’s security. Op-ed.

The absurd demonization of President Trump

Comparing Trump to Hitler? Can any rational person compare what Hitler did when he initiated the most disastrous war in history to what the former president accomplished during his four years in office? Opinion.

No, President Macron: The UN did not create Israel

If it were within the power of the UN to create states, an Arab state would have arisen in 1948 alongside Israel, whether or not the Arabs agreed. Op-ed.

Book review:

On Duty: The Polish Blue & Criminal Police in the Holocaust

Millions of Polish Jews were murdered by the Nazis. But they did not work alone. A new and damning book shows how Polish law enforcement and firefighting personnel played an integral part in the destruction of Polish Jewry.

Operation Barbarossa: What really happened and why

The June 1941 German invasion of Russia was called Operation Barbarossa, in which 3,000 men of the Einsatzgruppen planned to seek out and destroy the 5,000,000 Jews in Russia and end civilian resistance. Setting the Carlson-Cooper record straight.

Yom Hashoah 2024

The fragility of the world

The Germans presumed the right to determine who should live and who should die. Op-ed.

Jewish blindness to the Arab mindset

Ben Gurion admitted that he was “naïve then to imagine …that the Arabs think like us.” Op-ed.

Truman: "With a beast, you have to treat him like a beast"

Truman:“Nobody is more disturbed than I am but I was greatly disturbed over the attack on Pearl Harbor and their murder of our POWs." Op-ed.

The search for peace-loving Palestinian Arab leadership.

Antisemites will find fault no matter what we do. Op-ed.

“Why my generation hates Jews”

There was no comparable act of terrorism in Israel's 75-year history, but not for lack of trying - and yet, Gen Z sides with Hamas.Opinion.

'Remaining decent' - an SS speech

Henrich Himmler, Reichsführer SS, actually assured those involved in the annihilation of the Jewish people they had remained decent. Op-ed.

How antisemitism shifted from Nazi Germany to the Arab world

There is “an ideological link between the Nazi war against the Jews and the Arab war against Israel three years later..". Op-ed.

The Twin Children of the Holocaust

Review of a book on the meeting of twin survivors, subjected to appalling experiments, with a psychologist who wants the world to remember.

Op-ed:

The Soros Agenda

'No person has done more to damage Israel’s standing in the world, especially among so-called progressives than Soros' - Alan M. Dershowitz.

Op-ed:

Betrayal: The Failure of American Jewish Leadership

Charles Jacobs and Avi Goldwasser's collection of essays that tell it like it is, is frightening - and long overdue. Review.

Op-Ed:

Attempts to deny the Jewish connection to Jerusalem

Denying the centrality of Jerusalem to the Jewish People is an ongoing PA campaign, in words and in actual destruction of history. Op-ed.

Who are the Palestinian Arabs?

Palestinian Arab nationalism originated in Zionism, as a tool to fight Israel's existence. It has no historical or ethnic past. Op-ed..

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Holocaust Denial: An ongoing attempt to distort History

Contrary to deniers’ assertions, Allied intelligence knew about the mass murder as early as the summer of 1941. Op-ed.

A witness to the rebirth of Israel: Jewish DPs in Austria

The story of US Army Chaplain Oscar M. Lifshutz and the Jewish DPS’ at Camp Riedenberg in Salzburg Austria, May 14, 1948. Op-ed.

What effect did Nazi propaganda have on the German people?

Parts VI-VIII: A Gestapo report pointed out: It is easier to invite attacks on the Jews, than to persuade the public of antisemitism. Op-ed.

What effect did Nazi propaganda have on the German people?

Goebbels believed propaganda, especially films, could shape an individual’s opinions and beliefs, and possibly their behavior. Op-ed.

A Survivors’ Haggadah - Passover 1946

“We were slaves to Hitler in Germany.” they recited and then realized there were no children to ask the Four Questions. Op-ed.

When is criticism of Israel legitimate?

No democratic states should consider themselves immune to rebuke but no one should be discussing their right to exist either. Op-ed.

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Assault on Israel by Jews: Why does this hatred persist?

The self-hating Jew believes he has been given a seat at the table, and is the last to know he is loathed as much as are other Jews.Op-ed.

A new approach to the Middle East Conflict

The State Dept’s antipathy toward Zionism has deep roots. David Friedman knew how to circumvent, or fight, that elitist prejudice.Review.

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The insidious nature of Holocaust Denial - taking on Whoopi

What better way to make the world safe again for antisemitism than by denying the Holocaust's focus on killing Jews? Op-ed.

A House of Lies

Israel has a ‘natural and historic’ right to exist, the UN recognized in 1947,.before it made itself world center for antisemitism. Op-ed.

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What was the German public's reaction to Kristallnacht?

German poet:“Where you go, grab a Jew,/G-d’s supposed chosen few/ Christians, stick him in his ghetto/ Before he does the same to you.”

The horror of Babi Yar, Erev Yom Kippur 1941

Ukrainian militiamen, supervised by Germans, ordered the Jews to undress. Those who balked were assaulted, their clothes ripped off. Op-ed.

Rosh Hashana and Yom Kippur in Bavaria September 1945

The DPs lacked clothing and basic necessities, but a package program led to disappointing results. US chaplains were at the forefront.Op-ed.

Ken Burns is all wrong about the Holocaust

One example: A dark blot on the non-Orthodox American Jewish leadership is its absence from the March on Washington. Burns omits it. Op-ed.

European Jewry before the Shoah

Why did most European Jews seem so oblivious to the evolving deterioration of events and stayed on passively until it was too late? Op-ed.

Inventing Palestinian Arab History, destroying biblical evidence

What more inventive way can there be to delegitimize the Jewish state? Especially since the Bible jclearly says whose land it is. Op-ed.

Thomas R. Nides: Another clueless US Ambassador to Israel?

US Amb. Nides' statement on the Palestinian Arab Terror attacks in Israel omitted the word “Palestinian.” Should we be surprised? Op-ed.

“Liquidate the Galuth or the Galuth will liquidate you.”

What is a major signs to be aware of in ascertaining the present danger of antisemitism? German Jews did not want to overreact...Op-ed.

Response to Whoopi: Why the Jews?

The unconstrained, ideological drive to murder every Jew distinguishes the Holocaust from prior and later ethnocide and mass murder. Op-ed.

How do we know there were 6 million Jews murdered by the Nazis?

A historian provides a review of how researchers and historians achieved conclusions on the number of Jewish victims of the Nazis. Op-ed.

Kristallnacht: A nationwide pogrom

Any suggestion that German Jews were passive in leaving after Kristallnacht are mistaken. Most of those who could escape did so. Op-ed.

An excuse to attack the Jews and Israel

Gaining perspective on the antisemitic reactions to Operation Guardian of the Walls: how villifying Israel is exposed as Jew-hatred. Op-ed.

Refuting Hamas claims of civilian fatalities

US forces fighting in urban areas such as Fallujah have inflicted far greater civilian deaths than have the Israelis anywhere. Op-ed.

Arab protests against Jewish Immigration, May 1921

The British response to the pogroms encouraged the oppressors, rewarded violence, and penalized the victims - just like in Russia. Op-ed.

Mansour Abbas and the Islamist Ra'am Party: Partners or Enemies?

We should know more about the views of the leader of the southern division of the Islamic Movement in Israel. Opinion.

Recognizing Jews who helped their fellow Jews during the Shoah

Yad Vashem honors gentiles who saved Jews, but the Knesset did not direct it to honor Jews who did likewise. We can honor them anyway.Op-ed.