Rafael Medoff, PhD, is founding director of The David S. Wyman Institute for Holocaust Studies and the author of more than 20 books about Jewish history and the Holocaust.
Rafael Medoff
By Rafael Medoff
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Opinion Will Mel Gibson Get Away With His Antisemitic Tirade?
Will Mel Gibson get away with it? Now that Gibson has been revealed as having ranted against “f—ing Jews” who “are responsible for all the wars in the world,” a debate has erupted over what consequences, if any, he should suffer. In the past, some public figures who have made hostile statements about Jews or…
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Opinion A Lesson In Protesting Insulting Cartoons
As mobs throughout the Muslim world assaulted European targets in response to the publication of caricatures of Muhammad, an Iranian government newspaper offered its own bizarre response to the controversy by announcing a contest for cartoons mocking the Holocaust. In their fevered imagination, the Iranians believe they will expose a double standard, according to which…
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While European Union officials praised Yasser Arafat’s decision to appoint his first-ever prime minister, historians of the Holocaust were wincing at the thought that a leading candidate for the job is the author of a book questioning whether the Nazis murdered 6 million Jews. The candidate is Mahmoud Abbas, also known as Abu Mazen, Arafat’s…
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