Harold Brackman
ARTICLES BY: Harold Brackman
For Bastille Day, Examining French Comedian Dieudonné’s Nonstop Crusade Against Israel and America
French comedian Dieudonné is an avowed antisemite and anti-Zionist. Yet until recently, many in France across the political spectrum have laughed with him for depicting...
Donald Trump’s North Korea Embrace Endangers the World — and Israel
There was a time when conservatives and Republicans led America’s charge against communist regimes that starved millions in the Ukraine, tortured to death hundreds of...
As July 4th Approaches, PC Culture Takes on American History
Historian David McCullough’s new book Pioneers focuses on relatively-unknown western trailblazers, such as Rufus Putnam and Ephraim Cutler. Their frontier was the Ohio Valley wilderness, around...
Did You Know Richard Wagner Almost Brought His Antisemitism to the US?
Six years ago -- on the 200th anniversary of his birth -- Richard Wagner was still in the news, due to never-ending controversies over whether...
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and ‘Never Again’
Having previously accused Israel of a “massacre” of Palestinian civilians on its border with Gaza, Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) is at it again: “I want...
Penguin Cleans Up an Antisemitic Book — and Declares It Kosher
Pedro Baños’ How They Rule the World: The 22 Secret Strategies of Global Power has been attacked as antisemitic. The English language edition of the...
Whither ‘Poland’s Jewish Renaissance’?
In 2015, after the massacres at Charlie Hebdo’s offices and a Paris kosher supermarket, French Prime Minister Manuel Valls told Jeffrey Goldberg of The Atlantic,...
America’s Crisis of Religion
In the past, the religiosity of the American people always remained striking. But no longer. According to a new Gallup poll, the percentage of Americans...
Historians and Jews
When the Nazis achieved power, Hanns Johst wrote the play Schlageter, which was performed on Hitler’s 44th birthday. Act I, Scene 1 was the source...
Congresswoman Rashida Tlaib’s Orwellian Untruths About the Holocaust
The political scientist Leo Strauss wrote a book, Persecution and the Art of Writing (1952), arguing that great philosophers typically practiced deception because they had...
Israel in the Era of the New Isolationism
Maybe biblical Joseph’s cyclical dream of seven fat years followed by seven lean ones can be applied to America’s world politics. A “fat” cycle of...
Rediscovering American Antisemitism
Recently, an opinion writer in The Washington Post told readers that preoccupation with the Holocaust has blinded us to the prevalence of antisemitism in American...
Ben Hecht: Hero of Israel and the Holocaust
F. Scott Fitzgerald once remarked that “there are no second acts in American lives.” Two new biographies -- Adina Hoffman’s Ben Hecht: Fighting Words, Moving...
The Poway Chabad Synagogue Tragedy Has a Local History
Nicknamed “the city in the country,” Poway was once a sleepy agricultural community in northern San Diego County, until it boomed with the addition of...
