Israel Thought It Had Deterred Hamas, While in Fact Hamas Had Deterred Israel
The end of the Gaza illusions.
November 21, 2023
The American Jewish Athletes Excluded from the German Olympics in 1936
The story of Marty Glickman.
At the 1936 Munich Olympics, held in Nazi Germany, American coaches at the last minute instructed two Jewish runners—Marty Glickman and Sam Stoller—to sit out a relay race, and to let two of their teammates run instead. Jesse Owens, one of the substitutes, was the only player to object. While the track coach Dean Cromwell insisted that this was a merely tactical move, Jeffrey Gurock has found evidence that it was motivated either by anti-Semitism or by a desire not to offend Hitler. He writes:
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The State Department Should Quash, Not Coddle, Those Rebelling against the Administration’s Israel Policy
Civil servants need to remember their place in the American system of government.
Feminists Rush to Defend Hamas’s Atrocities
Those reporting accounts of rape are accused of “the Islamophobic and racist weaponization of sexual violence.”
The American Jewish Athletes Excluded from the German Olympics in 1936
The story of Marty Glickman.
A Great Jewish Photojournalist Who Documented Kibbutzim, Vietnam, and Much Else
The life and death of Paul Schutzer.