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Rafael Medoff

Dr. Rafael Medoff is founding director of the David S. Wyman Institute for Holocaust Studies.

In a region where over 200,000 people were slaughtered just twenty years ago, all the activists who have been yelling at Israel suddenly seem to have lost their voices. Why?
One hundred years ago this week, the then-president of Harvard reportedly warned that if American Jews “decide to remain apart ... blood will be spilled.”
The real history of the Jews in Vienna’s Leopoldstadt district is as harrowing as what’s depicted in a hit Broadway play.
The suit that Al Jazeera has filed in the International Criminal Court could shine an embarrassing spotlight on the network itself.
There need to be meaningful consequences which will clearly establish that in contemporary American society, racist humor is no laughing matter.
After the U.S. government apologized to Nazi Germany, Rabbi Stephen S. Wise spoke truth to power for the first and only time.
Hollow condemnation of anti-Semitism, that do not name names, signal that anti-Semites and their followers are a legitimate part of American political culture. And that’s just wrong.
Nancy Pelosi was fortunate to have as her role model a man who courageously put his humanitarian principles above his narrow political needs.
First, they ignored it. Then they de-Judaized it. Now they’re exploiting it.