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Rafael Medoff
Rafael Medoff
A portion of the exhibit "Americans and the Holocaust," which shows how the Depression, isolationism, xenophobia, racism, and antisemitism shaped responses to Nazism and the Holocaust. (Photo courtesy of the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum)
September 27, 2018, 6:08 pm
Italian universities apologize over Nazis, will American schools follow suit?
The time has come for some prominent American universities to come clean about the Nazi-era skeletons in their own closets.
By Rafael Medoff
President Franklin D. Roosevelt seated at desk with microphones. (Photo from Wikimedia Commons)
August 30, 2018, 4:14 pm
Holocaust Museum’s exhibit makes excuses for FDR
The exhibit paints a portrait of a weak, hapless Roosevelt who had no choice but to follow public opinion and ignores his abandonment of the Jews.
By Rafael Medoff
John Bolton speaking at the Conservative Political Action Conference in National Harbor, Md., Feb. 22, 2018. (Photo by Alex Wong/Getty Images)
April 5, 2018, 3:41 pm
Ben-Gurion, Bolton and the United Nations
John Bolton, the incoming National Security Advisor, has a strong skepticism of the United Nations that even David Ben-Gurion would have appreciated.
By Rafael Medoff
Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas addresses the general debate of the United Nations General Assembly on Sept. 20, 2017. (Photo by Cia Pak / U.N. Photo)
March 1, 2018, 4:55 pm
World’s worst historian: Palestinian Authority leader Mahmoud Abbas
Abbas is well acquainted with the facts — but cynically chooses to disregard all but the ones which he can wield as weapons in his fight against Israel.
By Rafael Medoff
A view of the Jerusalem Jewish neighborhood of French Hill and the Arab neighborhood of Al-Zaim. The United Nations describes French Hill as being situated in the “occupied Palestinian territory” of “East Jerusalem.” Photo by Nati Shohat/Flash90
January 25, 2017, 7:31 pm
Jerusalem schools, synagogues would be shut if UN resolution is implemented
By Rafael Medoff
Paul and Hedy Strnad were rejected in their efforts to seek safe haven in the United States from Czechoslovakia on the eve of the Holocaust. (Photos provided by Jewish Museum Milwaukee)
October 24, 2014, 6:01 pm
Nazi spy? Not hardly: The Jewish dressmaker FDR turned away
By Rafael Medoff
February 9, 2014, 11:45 pm
‘Monuments Men’
By Rafael Medoff
Ze’ev Jabotinsky (Credit: The David S. Wyman Institute for Holocaust Studies)
January 17, 2014, 3:15 pm
An early Zionist protest against racism
By Rafael Medoff
Ze’ev Jabotinsky (Credit: The David S. Wyman Institute for Holocaust Studies)
January 17, 2014, 3:15 pm
MLK Day
By Rafael Medoff
December 19, 2012, 7:49 pm
Babe Ruth and the Holocaust
By Rafael Medoff
June 16, 2011, 6:12 pm
From father to son, the Netanyahu legacy in Washington
By Rafael Medoff
June 19, 2009, 4:21 pm
Did Brandeis support breaking laws to rescue Jews?
By Rafael Medoff
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