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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.

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

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.

The Shoah: “An Event of Overbearing Magnitude”

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.

First letters of people of faith after the Holocaust

"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.

Jewish resistance in WWII: A desperate cry for future generations

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

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.

A Harris victory means a fourth Obama term

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.

The absurd demonization of President Trump

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.

No, President Macron: The UN did not create Israel

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.

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

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.

Operation Barbarossa: What really happened and why

Yom Hashoah 2024

The fragility of the world

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

The fragility of the world

Jewish blindness to the Arab mindset

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

Jewish blindness to the Arab mindset

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.

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

The search for peace-loving Palestinian Arab leadership.

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

The search for peace-loving Palestinian Arab leadership.

“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.

“Why my generation hates Jews”

'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.

'Remaining decent' - an SS speech

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.

How antisemitism shifted from Nazi Germany to the Arab world

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.

The Twin Children of the Holocaust

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.

The Soros Agenda

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.

Betrayal: The Failure of American Jewish Leadership

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.

Attempts to deny the Jewish connection to Jerusalem

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..

Who are the Palestinian Arabs?

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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.

Holocaust Denial: An ongoing attempt to distort History

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.

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

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?

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.

What effect did Nazi propaganda have on the German people?

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.

A Survivors’ Haggadah - Passover 1946

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.

When is criticism of Israel legitimate?

Op-ed:

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.

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

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.

A new approach to the Middle East Conflict

Op-ed:

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.

The insidious nature of Holocaust Denial - taking on Whoopi

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.

A House of  Lies

Op-ed:

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.”

What was the German public's reaction to Kristallnacht?

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.

The horror of Babi Yar, Erev Yom Kippur 1941

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.

Rosh Hashana and Yom Kippur in Bavaria September 1945

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.

Ken Burns is all wrong  about the Holocaust

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.

European Jewry before the Shoah

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.

Inventing Palestinian Arab History, destroying biblical evidence

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.

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

“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.

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

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.

Response to Whoopi: Why the Jews?

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.

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

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.

Kristallnacht: A nationwide pogrom

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.

An excuse to attack the Jews and Israel

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.

Refuting Hamas claims of civilian fatalities

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.

Arab protests against Jewish Immigration, May 1921

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.

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

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.

Recognizing Jews who helped their fellow Jews during the Shoah

Palestinian Arabs use women as terrorist role models

In Gaza, a card was distributed in girls schools to honor the killer of 21 people, as the “bride of the Haifa martyrdom operation.” Op-ed.

Palestinian Arabs use women as terrorist role models

No Justice: No Peace: The case of the Sbarro murders mastermind

The case of Ahlam Aref Ahmad Al-Tamimi, Sbarro Pizzeria massacre mastermind is a travesty of justice and proof that crime pays. Op-ed.

No Justice: No Peace: The case of the Sbarro murders mastermind

Leila Khaled: The Poster Girl of Palestinian Arab terror

Khaled is a PLFP terrorist glorified by the PA and the media, while Wikipedia calls her a "refugee." Now she is to speak at SFU. Op-ed.

 Leila Khaled: The Poster Girl of Palestinian Arab terror

Distorting history: Accusing Israel of doctoring Abbas video

A video showing Abbas ordering child murder was not believed by US Sec. of State. He only had to do some homework.

Distorting history: Accusing Israel of doctoring Abbas video

The Hevron Massacre of August 24, 1929

After 8 years of calm from 1921 on, many Jews and the British assumed that riots were a thing of the past. They were horribly mistaken.Op-ed

The Hevron Massacre of August 24, 1929

A Eureka moment: Peter Beinart and the One State Solution

Arab activist Edward Said: 'In the case of a one state solution..the question of ...the fate of the Jews..worries me.' Not Beinart. Oped.

A Eureka moment: Peter Beinart and the One State Solution

'Har Habayit Beyadenu' - The Temple Mount is in our hands!

The League of Nations did not grant the Jews a homeland, it recognized a pre-existing right. Israel realized it in 1948 and 1967. Op-ed.

'Har Habayit Beyadenu' - The Temple Mount is in our hands!

The long arm of the 1975 UN declaration "Zionism equals Racism"

The resolution lost its legal status in 1991, but the hostility it generated toward Israel among UN members continues unabated. Op-ed.

The long arm of the 1975 UN declaration  "Zionism equals Racism"

Pesach 1943: The importance of the Warsaw Ghetto uprising

Pesach 1943: The importance of the Warsaw Ghetto uprising

Without a Jewish State

Without a Jewish State

An uninterrupted Jewish presence in the land of Israel

An uninterrupted Jewish presence in the land of Israel

How Auschwitz evolved from a modern city to an extermination camp

How Auschwitz evolved from a modern city to an extermination camp