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Jerold S. Auerbach

Jerold S. Auerbach is the author of 12 books, including Print to Fit: The New York Times, Zionism and Israel (1896-2016) and Israel 1896-2016, selected for Mosaic by Ruth Wisse and Martin Kramer as a “Best Book for 2019.”

“New York Times” bureau chiefs and columnists have been unrelenting in their criticism of settlers.
It was during my trips to Israel that I finally embraced myself and my heritage.
I cherish the short time I spent with Elyakim Haetzni, who helped bring Jewish life back to Hebron.
Jewish statehood was staunchly opposed by the newspaper of record, lest it compromise the loyalty of American Jews to their home country.
The movement, concludes writer Daniel Kane, “no longer exists as a coherent whole”; indeed, there are “many differences among them.”
The columnist concludes (absurdly) that “only Saudi Arabia and Israeli Arabs can save Israel as a Jewish democracy.”
Following World War I, British Colonial Secretary Winston Churchill gifted the land east of the Jordan River—until then part of “Palestine,” according to the League of Nations Mandate—to Britain’s wartime ally Abdullah for his own kingdom.
I had begun to imagine that I might write a history of the Jewish community there, by now home to 700 passionate Zionists.
For author Tamara Neuman, the return of Jews to Hebron demonstrates how “the aggrandizement of maternal roles” was used to claim rights in “Palestinian areas that have little remaining material evidence of a Jewish past.”
Why was it, wondered author Walid Shoebat of Bethlehem, “that on June 4, 1967, I was a Jordanian and overnight I became a Palestinian.”
I found an empty chair next to someone who was seated alone. We exchanged a few words before lapsing into the silence that we both clearly preferred.
No one calls the Temple Mount the “Mosque” Mount.