Hamas Sets Its Sights on Taking over the PLO
Borrowing a page from Yasir Arafat’s playbook.
October 20, 2017
Isadore Greenbaum, the Jew Who Tried Singlehandedly to Take on American Nazis
Rushing the stage at Madison Square Garden.
In 1939, some 22,000 members of the German-American Bund—a pro-Nazi group—flocked to a rally in Manhattan’s Madison Square Garden, ostensibly to celebrate George Washington’s birthday. Isadore Greenbaum, a twenty-six-year-old resident of Brooklyn, snuck in to hear what was being said. At some point during a speech by the Bund’s leader, Fritz Kuhn, Greenbaum became so incensed by the anti-Semitic rhetoric that he rushed the stage, yelling “Down with Hitler!” As Philip Bump recounts, he was swarmed and beaten by a group of uniformed thugs until rescued by the police, who promptly arrested him. Video footage can be seen here:
October 20, 2017
How the U.S. Can Stop Iran from Dominating the Middle East
Is Trump following in Obama’s footsteps?
The Real Incident behind “Where They Have Burned Books, They Will End Up Burning People”
A German nationalist riot and a Muslim character in a play by Heinrich Heine.
Isadore Greenbaum, the Jew Who Tried Singlehandedly to Take on American Nazis
Rushing the stage at Madison Square Garden.
In Syria, Russian Air Defenses Involve Much Bark and Little Bite
Moscow is reluctant to provoke conflict with the U.S. or with Israel.