The Significance of Mahmoud Abbas’s Holocaust Denial
Westerners’ persistent refusal to take the Palestinian president for what he actually is.
August 19, 2022
Yossi Klein Halevi’s Kaddish.
Directed by Steve Brand, the 1984 film Kaddish tells the story of Yossi Klein Halevi, his father the Hungarian Holocaust survivor Zoltan Klein, his mother Breindy, and his experience growing up in Brooklyn in the shadow of the Shoah. The film has recently been remastered and rereleased, and was screened last week by Mosaic along with an interview with Klein Halevi. Karen Lehrman Bloch writes in her review:
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Login or SubscribeWesterners’ persistent refusal to take the Palestinian president for what he actually is.
The emerging coalition of totalitarian rogue states.
Being pro-Israel might become a new litmus test for those aspiring to lead the party.
Not a sorry compromise, but the essence of judiciousness.
Yossi Klein Halevi’s Kaddish.