Rafael Medoff

The writer is founding director of The David S. Wyman Institute for Holocaust Studies, and author of more than 20 books about Jewish history, Zionism, and the Holocaust.

 MASALIT WOMEN gather under a tree to share stories about the deaths of their children and other family members, mostly male, at a refugee camp in Adre, Chad, in 2023. The women had fled to Chad as a result of an ethnically targeted massacre in Sudan’s West Darfur state.

Sudan: The real genocide - opinion

Protesters call for boycott of Israel [file]

Radicalized sociologists on the warpath - opinion

 A PRO-PALESTINIAN protester, holding a ‘Stop genocide’ banner, interrupts US President Joe Biden during a presidential campaign event in Virginia last week

Why do so many young Americans hate Israel? - opinion


Italy opposes Israeli ‘settlers’ even though it has its own - opinion

Israel’s historical, legal, and religious claims to the area where Ma’aleh Adumim is situated are much older, and stronger than Italy’s claims to Campione or Amedeo Guillet.

 PRIME MINISTER Benjamin Netanyahu and Ma’aleh Adumim mayor Benny Kashriel attend a Likud meeting in Ma’aleh Adumim, in 2017.

Human rights groups’ hypocrisy on Hamas rape - opinion

Respect has been forfeited from self-described human rights advocates when they failed to defend the human right of Jewish women to not be raped.

 A PROTEST against the sexual violence committed in the October 7 massacre – and the international silence afterward – takes place outside UN Headquarters in New York City earlier this month.

UN envoy revealing Hamas head's number inspired by NYT Israel critic - opinion

Even if it was not Gilad Erdan’s intention, the sign that he held up at the UN this week rhetorically turned the tables on an arch-critic of Israel, Thomas Friedman.

 ISRAEL’S UN Ambassador Gilad Erdan holds up a sign, last Tuesday, with Hamas-Gaza leader Yahya Sinwar’s phone number, urging the assembled UN delegates to call him.

US generals wrongfully blame Israel for 'creating terrorists' - opinion

When it comes to understanding what causes young Palestinian Arabs to become Hamas terrorists, President Biden’s generals are getting it all wrong.

 US Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Charles Q. Brown hold a news conference during a meeting of NATO defense ministers in Brussels, in October.

Poster-tearing reminiscent of time when universities shook hands with Nazis - opinion

The fact that German universities had purged their Jewish faculty members and hosted book-burnings did not deter friendly overtures from schools such as Harvard, Columbia, and MIT.

 MIT STUDENTS were among the first to cheer the Hamas pogrom, says the writer.

US has aided in covering up Saudi mass murder - opinion

In response to public pressure, the State Department has admitted that it actually knew about the killings months earlier, in the summer of 2022.

 THE FLAG of Saudi Arabia flies at the Saudi Embassy in Washington.

When antisemites sue the Jews: Lessons for Al Jazeera - opinion

If Al Jazeera’s directors are not familiar with Benjamin Freedman, this might be the time to read up on him, lest they expose facts about themselves they'd prefer not be public.

 AL JAZEERA headquarters in Doha, Qatar: The suit that Al Jazeera has filed at the ICC could shine an embarrassing spotlight on the network itself, says the writer.

American filmmaker Ken Burns has a Palestine problem - opinion

Why is Burns trying to disqualify Palestine from the conversation? Why resort to a technicality about sovereignty in order to try to push Palestine out of the discussion?

 Documentary filmmaker Ken Burns filming interviews for "The Roosevelts" in 2014.

Zionists helped defeat segregation in Baltimore - opinion

This story began in the autumn of 1946, when the Zionist activists known as the Bergson Group sponsored a Broadway play called 'A Flag is Born.'

Child survivors of the Holocaust ride aboard the S.S. Ben Hecht.

Don't exaggerate Diaspora Jewry's 'distress' amid COVID-19 travel ban - opinion

It's unfortunate that Diaspora Jews can't come to family events in Israel due to COVID-19, but it is hardly the same as the distress Jews experienced in the 1890s in Russia.

 President Isaac Herzog, then serving as Jewish Agency chairman, speaks during a rally in Jerusalem in 2020 held in solidarity with Jews in the US and around the world following a wave of antisemitic attacks.