Posts Tagged: Jerold Auerbach
Israel in Memory
As a 15-year-old I made my peace with the reality that I would not follow my cousin Hank Greenberg to baseball stardom. I chose the...
Palestinians in Search of an Identity
Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas, entering the 15th year of his four-year term, delights in identifying biblical Canaanites as the ancestors of the Palestinian people....
President Trump, Antisemitism and the New York Times
The New York Times displayed evident signs of unease over President Donald Trump’s recent executive order including antisemitism within the Civil Rights Act of 1964,...
The Palestinian Refugee Scam
Another Nakba Day, the annual commemoration of the catastrophic displacement of Palestinians from their homes in the 1948 war launched by Arab states to annihilate...
Passover in Hebron
Immediately after the Six-Day War ended in June 1967, Hanan Porat -- a child survivor of the Arab destruction of Gush Etzion and massacre of more...
Another Example of Myopic, Anti-Israel Journalism
After the Oslo Accords were signed, Australian journalist John Lyons believed that “the world was on the brink of resolving one of the most relentless conflicts...
Home Sweet Home: From Amona to Shiloh
Like Jarndyce v. Jarndyce in Charles Dickens’ Bleak House, the legal saga of some fifty families in the Jewish outpost of Amona “drones on.” Founded...
Brothers at War: Israel and the Tragedy of the Altalena (REVIEW)
Brothers at War: Israel and the Tragedy of the Altalena, by Jerold Auerbach, (New Orleans, LA: Quid Pro Books, 2011). MILCHEMET ACHIM!—Brothers at war!—is a...
Who Is(n’t) a Refugee?
In December 1949, seven months after the fledgling State of Israel was granted membership in the United Nations, the UN established the United Nations Relief...
Legal Panel Frames New Debate on Judea, Samaria Jewish Development
Sparking intense debate over an area whose Israeli-Arab disputes are already the subject of frequent international scrutiny, the Commission to Examine the Status of...
