Harold Brackman
ARTICLES BY: Harold Brackman
Remembering Jackie Robinson
Jackie Robinson was born 100 years ago. In 1947, when he broke baseball's color barrier, Jewish slugger Hank Greenberg was almost alone among active players...
Democrats Who Criticized Omar Are Not Heroes
Usually, Washington Post columnist Dana Milbank’s satires of the real-and-imagined sins of President Trump are fun to read. But Milbank shot a dud in criticizing...
Al Jolson in Twenty-First Century Perspective
Washington Post columnist Jamelle Bouie, writing about the political crisis engulfing Virginia, where 10 percent of whites in a new poll admit to wearing or knowing...
On Top of the Brexit Crisis, Does Ireland Want to Awaken Ugly Memories of Antisemitism?
You might think that today’s Brexit worries would be enough to preoccupy Ireland’s government. Instead, the lower house of Ireland’s parliament has escalated the BDS...
Congresswomen Ilhan Omar and Rashida Tlaib Should Be Sanctioned — History Demands It
If history teaches lessons, the Democratic Congressional leadership will regret it if they don't sanction Congresswomen Ilhan Omar and Rashida Tlaib. Here are some of Congresswoman...
Jewish Unity: My Wish for ‘E Pluribus Junum’
In 1776, three American founding fathers were tasked with choosing a national symbol. John Adams chose Hercules. Benjamin Franklin and Thomas Jefferson preferred variations on...
Racializing Antisemitism
Long ago, Raphael Patai’s The Myth of the Jewish Race (1975) should have dispelled the pernicious notion that Jews are a biological “race.” We are...
IfNotNow Does Not Support Peace — or Israel
Reading the recent Algemeiner op-ed about the anti-Israel group IFNotNow (INN), I thought about the long-forgotten Abraham Cronbach. Born the son of German-Jewish immigrants, Cronbach studied...
For Much of the World, Israel Has Become the Devil
Israel was condemned at least 20 times in the UN General Assembly for human rights abuses, illegal settlements, and continued occupation of East Jerusalem in...
Donald Trump, the Syrian Kurds — and ‘Never Again’
According to a recent poll, 37 percent of Americans believe that Benjamin Franklin -- not Thomas Edison -- invented the light bulb. But Americans’ historical...
The Truth About T’ruah and Rabbi Jill Jacobs
Rabbi Jill Jacobs, of the self-advertised “Jewish social justice lobby” T’ruah, has made her latest foray into the tangled politics of Israeli-Diaspora relations with an...
Would Honoring Angela Davis Be a Dishonor to Rosa Parks?
Like the Unsinkable Molly Brown, Angela Davis -- the hyper-controversial icon of the extreme left of the late 1960s and early 1970s -- periodically resurfaces...
Rashida Tlaib and ‘Dual Loyalty’ Charges — Then and Now
Palestinian-American Congresswoman Rashida Tlaib has suggested that certain US senators may be more loyal to Israel than the US. A newly-minted wunderkind in national politics,...
The New York Times Whitewashes Voltaire and ‘The Dark Enlightenment’
Vexed by the intolerance of our Trumpian time, distinguished Harvard historian Robert Darnton has offered New York Times readers a solution: “Look to Voltaire” -- the...
