Harold Brackman
ARTICLES BY: Harold Brackman
Crown Heights Through a Looking Glass
Reported anti-Jewish hate crimes in New York outnumbered anti-black hate crimes almost threefold during the third quarter of 2019. The city’s politicians and media are,...
Palestinian Extremists Hate the United States — and Not Just Because of Israel
A year before his confirmation to the US Supreme Court in 1916, Louis D. Brandeis affirmed the compatibility of Zionism with American patriotism for “every...
Who Invented Antisemitism?
The Zohar declares “the Messiah will not come until the tears of Esau will be exhausted.” It does not say that Jacob, importuned by his...
US-Israel Relations Still Hang by a Thread
Sometimes, history’s turning points depend on small things. The 2000 presidential election outcome hinged on the interpretation of “hanging chads” from a small number of...
Fascism Is Not a Matter of Taste
At the signing of the notorious Hitler-Stalin Pact, Soviet Foreign Minister Molotov was asked to justify partnering with the Nazis. His retort: “fascism is a...
After Trump’s Betrayal, Don’t Forget Jewish Ties to the Kurds
After Donald Trump essentially green-lit the mass slaughter of innocent Kurds, Israeli Jews and their Christian allies congregated in Jerusalem and Tel Aviv to invoke...
High School Students Demean the Holocaust
In suburban Colorado, high school students posted a picture on Snapchat under the caption: “Me and the boys bout to exterminate the Jews.” In an...
A Tangled Web: America, Saudi Arabia, and Israel
From “the best and the brightest” in JFK’s White House thinking they could remake the world to their image to Donald Trump’s White House believing...
Ignorance About History Makes a Comeback for America’s Youth
New York Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (AOC), a member of “The Squad,” is getting some flack for claiming that millennials are more “informed” and “willing to...
Jewish Predicaments: 1939 and 2019
The American novelist F. Scott Fitzgerald, not noted as a political thinker, nevertheless knew something about political paradoxes. Fitzgerald wrote: “The test of a first-rate...
Reconsidering Israel and ‘The Virtue of Nationalism’
Last year’s political best-seller, Yoram Hazony’s The Virtue of Nationalism, may now face some rough seas. In the wake of recent massacres by fanatics on both...
A Liberal Jewish Writer Takes Down the Anti-Zionist Left
NYU journalism professor Susie Linfield’s provocative book, The Lions’ Den: Zionism and the Left from Hannah Arendt to Noam Chomsky (Yale University Press, 2019), features...
Columbus as a Source of Jewish Pride?
This time of year, we should all remember Christopher Columbus, who many argue is a Jewish figure. Despite documentation that he was a Genoese weaver’s son,...
Putin’s Rasputin Helps Spread Fascism in Europe
There is an emerging “new fascist international” -- stretching from France, where Marine Le Pen may be the next president; to Austria, where the right-wing...
