Refugees, the Holocaust, and the Danger of Illiterate and Partisan Analogies
Hitler, not FDR, caused the Holocaust. American isolationism, not refugee policy, helped him do it.
January 30, 2017
Who Is Carrying the Menorah on the Arch of Titus?
Romans, not Jews.
Constructed around the year 81 CE, the triumphal arch in Rome depicts the ceremonial military parade a decade earlier celebrating the emperor Titus’ defeat of the Jewish rebellion. Its most famous image, visible to this day, shows people carrying a seven-branched menorah. To scholars of the era, it is evident that these are victorious Roman soldiers bearing the spoils of Jerusalem. Nonetheless, the belief is widespread among Jews that the menorah is being carried by Jewish captives. Steven Fine traces this legend from Renaissance Italy, to 19th-century British Protestants, to early-20th-century Jewish scholars, to Zionist iconography past and present:
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Who Is Carrying the Menorah on the Arch of Titus?
Romans, not Jews.