The Way It Looked in 1948

A small reaction does not impress anyone. A destroyed house–nothing. Destroy a neighborhood, and you begin to make an impression. David Ben-Gurion

Manifest Destiny

1. And that claim [to Oregon] is by the right of our manifest destiny to overspread and to possess the whole of the continent which Providence has given us for the development of the great…

Analogies

If past behavior is any guide, Elie Wiesel must be having a fit. I’m not thinking here of the great loss to his Foundation from the audacious and criminal pilfering of Bernie Madoff. No, I…

Accuplacer Prep

Reading Overview (9:30 minutes) 1. Information and Ideas  Reading Closely Determining Central Ideas and Themes Understanding Relationships 2. Rhetoric Analyzing Text Structure Analyzing Point of View Analyzing Arguments 3. Synthesis   Analyzing Multiple Texts 4….

Good Human Material

Review of In the Shadow of the Holocaust: The Struggle Between Jews and Zionists in the Aftermath of World War II  by Yosef Grodzinsky. Monroe, Maine: Common Courage Press,  2004. First published in the Journal…

Remembering the Palestinian Catastrophe

Today November 29 marks the passage of the 1947 United Nations General Assembly Resolution 181.  By the deliberations of this body, historic Palestine, which had most recently been under a British Mandate, was to pass…

Remembering the Nakba

Recently the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, DC sponsored an unusual exhibit, “Darfur: Who Will Survive Today?” Photographic images of the genocide in Darfur are flashed to incredible size at night outside on…

Deploying the Holocaust

Israel’s Holocaust and the Politics of Nationhood, by Idith Zertal. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005.  Cambridge Middle East Studies 21. 208 pages. Biographies to p. 216. Glossary to p. 222.  Bibliography to p. 230. Index…