Enduring Myths about the Six-Day War and Its Aftermath
There weren’t missed opportunities for peace.
June 7, 2017
The Associated Press’s 80-Year History of Collaborating with Anti-Semitic Tyrannies
Learning the lessons of the organization’s Nazi-era fake news.
According to a recent study—much of it confirmed by an internal report—the Associated Press (AP) made an agreement with the Nazi government to play by its rules in exchange for permission to continue reporting from Germany. Under the agreement, which remained in effect from the 1930s through America’s entry into the war in 1941, the AP fired its Berlin office’s Jewish employees, published propaganda photographs, and supplied images to the Nazis for their own use—including in an anti-Semitic tract titled The Jews of the USA. Today, Matti Friedman observes, the AP, which has defended its conduct in the Nazi period, continues to pursue similar policies in reporting from places like Gaza, Iran, and North Korea:
June 7, 2017
The Associated Press’s 80-Year History of Collaborating with Anti-Semitic Tyrannies
Learning the lessons of the organization’s Nazi-era fake news.
Great Britain’s Labor Party Has a Jewish Problem, and It’s Not Going Away
It doesn’t seem to be turning off non-Jewish voters.
An Orthodox Hebraist’s Love of America and Vision of Modern Jewish Scholarship
Samuel K. Mirsky: a grandson’s appreciation.
Celebrating Shavuot with the Samaritans
A photo essay.