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July 3, 2023

The Zionist Heroes Who Weren’t Afraid to Tell the Truth

“Not by meek flattery, but by making ‘the free world’ stare right into its own hypocrisy.”

In his book And None Shall Make Them Afraid, Rick Richman provides eight portraits (parts of which first appeared in Mosaic) of courageous Jews who played a role in the creation of the state of Israel. Alongside such better-known figures as Theodor Herzl and Chaim Weizmann, Richman examines the playwright and screenwriter Ben Hecht, who turned his considerable talents and extensive show-business connections first to alerting Americans to the Holocaust and then to raising financial support for the nascent Jewish state—in ways that were far too bold for the American Jewish establishment. Seth Mandel writes in his review:

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