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Jerold S. Auerbach

Jerold S. Auerbach is the author of 12 books, most recently, “Print to Fit: The New York Times, Zionism and Israel (1896-2016).”

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Jerold S. AuerbachJanuary 14, 2021
The Trump-Friedman legacy
Ambassador David Friedman, who was behind President Donald Trump on matters Israeli, will be deservedly recognized as an unrelenting advocate for the security of the Jewish state.
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Jerold S. AuerbachJanuary 6, 2021
Israel beware: Here comes a new Sulzberger
A family dynasty that has guided “The New York Times” since the 1930s has made it a standard not to portray the Jews too favorably.
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Jerold S. AuerbachDecember 25, 2020
Unsettled by Hebron
Historically myopic, ignoring millennia of Jewish history in Hebron, an author can only discern the “colonial backdrop” of a “land takeover” with “Jewish observance and forms of direct violence in order to erase the presence of an existing Palestinian population.”
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Jerold S. AuerbachNovember 27, 2020
Donald Trump’s gifts to Israel
New York Times Jerusalem bureau chief David M. Halbfinger’s litany of criticism for anything of benefit to Israel seems endless.
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Jerold S. AuerbachNovember 18, 2020
Joe Biden: Israel’s best friend?
Time will tell as to whether he embraces or rejects the palpable hostility of former U.S. President Barack Obama, his political idol, or forge his own path to more positive relations.
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Jerold S. AuerbachOctober 29, 2020
The plight of Palestinian ‘refugees’
The Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) has not liberated them. Rather, like UNRWA, it has consigned them to permanent “refugee” status to justify its own existence.
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Jerold S. AuerbachSeptember 17, 2020
Thomas Friedman’s folly
The columnist remains as he was as a Brandeis undergraduate: yearning for Palestinian statehood and furious at Israel for its determination to rebuild a state within its ancient Jewish homeland.
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Jerold S. AuerbachAugust 20, 2020
Joshua: Hero or villain?
For author Rachel Havrelock, the story of Joshua has been re-enacted in the West Bank, where “orientalist perspectives blended with biblical longings.”
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Jerold S. AuerbachAugust 5, 2020
Does sovereignty matter?
The underlying issue is the right of Jews to inhabit their biblical homeland.
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Jerold S. AuerbachJuly 15, 2020
‘The New York Times’ nadir
Only those whose “ideology is in keeping with the new orthodoxy,” says Bari Weiss, who just resigned from the U.S. paper of record, are protected from laceration.
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Jerold S. AuerbachJune 15, 2020
‘Annexation’ of territory?
“Returning” is more accurate. It is, by history and under international law, Jewish land.
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Jerold S. AuerbachJune 1, 2020
Refugees forever
Exposing the complicity of the United Nations in contriving and sustaining the never-ending Palestinian refugee scam, Adi Schwartz and Einat Wilf have served the cause of historical integrity
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Jerold S. AuerbachMay 21, 2020
The future of Judea and Samaria
If what is outlined as part of the Trump administration’s Mideast peace plan goes forward, this may yet be recorded by historians as the golden age of Israel-American relations.
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Jerold S. AuerbachMay 11, 2020
Middle East plans and fantasies
Coexistence with Israel under any circumstances, even including assurance of massive American economic investment, would not be worth relinquishing the decades of hostility that are embedded in Palestinian identity. Their rigid reluctance to engage in negotiations with Israel long ago doomed any peace prospects.
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Jerold S. AuerbachApril 27, 2020
Zionism and Israel in ‘The New York Times’
Over years of conflict with the Palestinian Arabs, Israel was to be blamed for its failure to adhere to its “biblical-moral tradition.” Lately, some promise exists for change.
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