Harold Brackman
ARTICLES BY: Harold Brackman
More Frightening Than Fiction: Virulently Antisemitic Egyptian Film Impresario Honored by the Institut Français
To Hollywood movie fans of my generation, Mideast history on the silver screen meant cinematic blockbusters like The Ten Commandments (1956) and Exodus (1960). The...
Remembering Amos Oz — the Dreamer
Amos Oz -- writer-poet, prophet, and would-be politician -- is dead. Israel and the Jewish world will probably never see his like again. As an American...
Maybe Today’s Zionists Can Still Learn From Ludwig Lewisohn
Observers today love to analyze Israel-Diaspora tensions, but it would do both sides well to remember how integral American Jewish intellectuals once were to the...
Who Hates Jews? A Historical Travelogue
“Who is a Jew? Who is an antisemite?” These two related questions are at the center of a vexing early 21st century debate that should...
American Jews Must Pressure Trump Administration to Change Policy Towards Vietnamese Immigrants
One of the most implausible might-have-beens in modern history occurred in 1946, when future Israeli Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion and North Vietnam’s Politburo Chairman Ho...
Back to the Idealized Ghetto: Bradley Burston’s Solution to Zionist ‘Toxic Masculinity”
According to Bradley Burston’s latest in Haaretz, we Jews are currently awash in a sea of Zionist “toxic masculinity” from which he needs to desperately purge...
The Complete History of Louis Farrakhan
Dr. Manfred Gerstenfeld’s fact-filled piece in The Algemeiner is important for highlighting Louis Farrakhan as America’s leading antisemite. Perhaps from abroad, he sees something that somewhat...
Kirk Douglas and the Role of Jewish Masculinity
Kirk Douglas was born more than 100 years ago in Amsterdam, New York, 28 miles from Albany. Beginning life as Issur Danielovich, Douglas’ parents were...
Is Netanyahu’s Realpolitik Right or Wrong?
I have long considered Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to be an indispensable man -- even Israel’s “mini-Churchill.” Yet admirers like me need to remind...
The False Argument on Antisemitism and Anti-Zionism
New York Times columnist Michelle Goldberg saw “fascist instincts” at work earlier this year when the US Department of Homeland Security separated children from adult...
President George H. W. Bush: Pro-Israel and a Man of Deeds More than Words
On the surface, the late President George H. W. Bush was an admirable, but not complicated man. Scion of an elite New England family, he...
Jewish Solutions at the Mexican Border?
When the US Department of Homeland Security began separating children from their parents who entered the US illegally seeking asylum, American Jewish organizations spoke up. Now,...
