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Rafael Medoff

Rafael Medoff

Apologists for Chinese Genocide

Two years ago, the U.S. State Department determined that the Chinese government is carrying out “ongoing genocide” against the Uyghurs, including slave labor, torture, forced sterilizations, and the imprisonment of “more than one million civilians.”

A Jewish Leader at Just the Right Time

Long forgotten but deeply deserving of remembrance, J. George Fredman was part of the national leadership in the American Jewish community only briefly—but at exactly the right moment, when the community needed him most.

What to Do When Your Lake Is Named After an Antisemite

Since the naming of the lake had nothing to do with Stow’s antisemitism, and almost nobody in in our own times even knew of his bigotry until the recent protests, does it make sense to change the name? Absolutely—for two reasons.

Shattering Another Excuse for FDR’s Holocaust Apathy

Contemporary defenders of President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s Holocaust record argue that there was no point in bombing the railways to Auschwitz because the Germans sometimes were able to repair railway lines fairly quickly.

Bermuda and the Abandonment of the Jews

For those concerned with the history of the Holocaust, Bermuda is remembered as the site of a notorious U.S.-British conference, eighty years ago this week.

A Passover Reminder of Jewish Quarrels Gone By

A fascinating cartoon that appeared in the Hebrew press in British Mandatory Palestine just before Passover in 1939 reminds us that fierce quarreling long has been a feature of Jewish life in the Holy Land.

Is Ron DeSantis Channeling Neville Chamberlain?

The statement by Florida governor Ron DeSantis that Russia’s war against Ukraine is just a “territorial dispute” and is not “a vital American interest” has set off a firestorm of debate, finger-pointing, and, inevitably, comparisons to the Hitler era.

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