Edwin Black is the New York Times bestselling author of IBM and the Holocaust, Financing the Flames and The Farhud.
Edwin Black
By Edwin Black
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Community Stunning Court Decision Approves Passover Punishment
Three judges of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit surprisingly rejected the appeal of Susan Abeles, a Washington D.C., Orthodox Jew, who was punished by the Metropolitan Washington Airports Authority (MWAA) because she took off work for the last two days of Passover 2013, as she had done for the past 26…
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Community What Really Happened at the Presidents Conference Hanukkah Party
On December 14, 2016, the Conference of Presidents of Major Jewish Organizations (the Presidents Conference) in concert with the Embassy of Azerbaijan held a historic Chanukah party in Washington, D.C. that will be talked about for some time. Controversy continues to swirl over not only who attended the party, but who did not; how many…
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Community We Have 44 Days Until President Trump. Will Obama Recognize a Palestinian State Before Then?
Anxiety continues to roil through the pro-Israel world over a possible last-minute political move by the Obama administration that could permanently alter the Israeli-Palestinian geopolitical landscape. 48 hours after the Nov 8 election, I flew to South Florida for a series of lectures and briefings organized by StandWithUs, NOVA Southeast University and other organizations as…
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News Robert Wolfe, Archivist of Nazi Documents, Fought Relentlessly To Expose Holocaust
Ask the average person their image of an archivist and the likely answer you’ll get is someone resembling Wally Cox — a mild mannered bespectacled man behind a counter with rows of document shelves towering behind him. My most distinct memory of Robert Wolfe is quite different: It is of a short, stocky man shaking…
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Opinion American Tax Dollars Help Fund Hefty ‘Salaries’ for Jailed Palestinian Killers
At a time of endless budget crises, the sequester, bursting debt ceilings, government shutdowns, and a default averted at the eleventh hour, it may astound many that American taxpayers are deploying their precious dollars in Israel not to pay for peace but to support terrorists and their families. Each year, American aid and financial programs…
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Opinion History Demands an Uncompromised Home for Shoah Archive
The world’s largest Holocaust archive, the secretive International Tracing Service in Bad Arolsen, Germany, has finally agreed to open its files to researchers and journalists. The long-awaited access follows years of acrimonious contention between the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum and the International Committee of the Red Cross, which manages the repository. The opening of…
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News Spat Erupts Between Neocons, Intelligence Community
WASHINGTON — Last June, leading neoconservative Richard Perle received an unexpected phone call at his home. It was Larry Franklin calling. Franklin is the veteran Iran specialist in the Pentagon’s Near East South Asia office, and the key Iraq war planner who had been pressured by the FBI into launching a series of counterintelligence stings….
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News How FBI Employed Pentagon Analyst To ‘Sting’ Aipac
WASHINGTON — The FBI’s investigation of the American Israel Public Affairs Committee did not go into high gear until more than a year after the Pentagon’s top Iran analyst allegedly passed foreign policy strategy information to two Aipac officials. The investigation only intensified in July, when the FBI allegedly directed the same Pentagon analyst, Larry…
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