Rafael Medoff / JNS.org
ARTICLES BY: Rafael Medoff / JNS.org
Nothing Radical About GOP’s Shift on Palestinian Statehood
JNS.org - The omission of Palestinian statehood from this year’s Republican Party platform is neither a radical change nor a departure from immutable US policy, as...
Rwanda and the Holocaust: A Valid Analogy?
JNS.org - At a memorial in Rwanda to the victims of the 1994 genocide, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu this week wrote in the visitors’ book...
Palestinians Go ‘Potemkin’ With Anti-Israel Maps
JNS.org - The attempt by Palestinian officials or supporters to hide anti-Israel maps from the view of foreign dignitaries is reminiscent of a tactic that dictators...
‘Poisoning’ Accusations Are a Palestinian Tradition
JNS.org - Palestinian Authority (PA) President Mahmoud Abbas must be surprised at the international outcry over his accusation this week that Israeli rabbis are plotting to...
The US Deletes Inconvenient Words — From Arafat to Iran
JNS.org - The US State Department’s admission that it altered an embarrassing video exchange about its nuclear negotiations with Iran is disturbing — but it’s not the...
Are Profits Everything? The 2016 Race and a Jewish Businessman’s Lament
JNS.org - The current American presidential campaign features candidates who seem all too willing to set aside ethics for the sake of greater profits. One presumptive...
How ‘Seinfeld’ Paved the Way for Bernie Sanders
JNS.org - As recently as the 1940s, antisemitism was so common in the United States that even the president privately told offensive jokes about Jewish immigrants...
Think Donald Trump Isn’t Dangerous? Think Again
JNS.org - The passing of a television writer is not the sort of event that usually raises questions about the future of American society. But the...
Sidney Blumenthal and ‘Pushy’ Israelis
JNS.org - The new allegation that Israel’s ambassador once charged through the halls of the White House, barging into room after room in search of President...
At Presidents Day, Un-presidential ‘Joke’ About Jews is Whitewashed
JNS.org - Another Presidents Day, another whitewash of a president’s “joke” about Jews. The latest offender is Susan Butler’s “Roosevelt and Stalin: Portrait of a Partnership” (published...
Israeli Settlers, Meet Brazil’s Settlers
JNS.org - Brazil says it will not confirm the Israeli ambassador-designate to the South American nation, Dani Dayan, because it does not want to “show support...
Should a Professorship Be Named After a Hitler-Backer?
JNS.org - The campus of Princeton University has been engulfed in protests by students who want President Woodrow Wilson’s name removed from one of the university’s...
Syrian Refugee Advocates Are Using the Wrong Holocaust Analogy
JNS.org - Examining America’s response to the Holocaust can help us avoid repeating the mistakes of that era, so applying the lessons of the Nazi years...
Lack of Democracy Weakens US Jewish Institutions
JNS.org - Fifty years ago this week, two prominent figures in the American Jewish community startled their colleagues by calling for democratic elections to choose Jewish...
