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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?
American Jewish organizations had high hopes for the United Nations and actively promoted its establishment. Yet it wasn’t long before its limitations and biases began to emerge.
The executive director of the Jewish Community Relations Council of Greater Boston, which helped draft and promote the measure, conceded that “there were just too many obstacles to overcome.”
How one man changed the way we think about America’s response to genocide.
Contrasting Mike Pompeo with Rex Tillerson, who reportedly opposed U.S. recognition of Jerusalem as Israel’s capital.
The American Victims of Palestinian Terrorism organization is urging U.S. universities with relationships to Palestinian schools to cut ties with a group that honors Palestinian terrorist Dalal Mughrabi, who perpetrated the 1978 Coastal Road massacre that killed 38 Israelis.
American Jewish groups are calling for stricter gun control measures following last week’s deadly school shooting in South Florida.
Major Jewish groups, including the leading organization representing Jewish Democrats, are strongly criticizing Rep. Keith Ellison (D-Minn.) over his previously undisclosed contacts with Rev. Louis Farrakhan, head of the anti-Semitic political and religious movement Nation of Islam.
Relatives of the terrorist’s victims are expressing disappointment and anger at what they call a half-hearted U.S. effort in this and similar cases.