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Jun 29, 2018, 2:31 PM

Israel Must Either Protect or Admit the Syrian Refugees

I am more upset and angry than I can remember. Despite an early agreement with the Russians and the Americans, the Syrian army is retaking the southern part of Syria that borders Israel and Jordan. There are reports that...

Jun 25, 2018, 6:12 PM

Can You Say Trump and Holocaust in the Same Sentence?

Last week, the separation of children from their parents by the Trump Administration revived an ongoing controversy, over when is ok to compare any event to the Holocaust. Renowned Holocaust historian, Deborah Lipstadt, wrote in The Atlantic that “Trump’s...

Jun 15, 2018, 6:39 PM

BDS — Personal Encounters over 30 Years

To many, over the past few years, BDS has seemingly become the number one threat to Israel. It is illegal in Israel to support BDS. Recently, we learned that supporters of BDS have been denied entry to visit Israel....

May 18, 2018, 2:34 PM

Why criticizing the IDF’s actions this week will backfire

I have always had a complicated relationship with the question of whether diaspora Jews should criticize Israel. In the early 1970s, before I first moved here, I was a vocal opponent of Breira, the first organization to publicly oppose...

Dec 29, 2016, 3:24 PM

Thank you John Kerry, at least you tried

Israel should pursue the Secretary's plan -- it's not perfect, but it's good and would peace be such a bad thing?

Oct 31, 2016, 6:30 PM

Why No Jew Should Vote for Donald Trump

I have avoided writing this article for some time. Anyone who carefully reads my articles in Newsweek or on my blog knows I have a political leaning. Though since I maintain a website on the History of American Presidential...

Mar 27, 2016, 2:48 PM

When Every Enemy is Amalek or Hitler

Thursday’s release of the video documenting the alleged cold blooded murder of a wounded Arab assailant by an Israeli soldier in Hebron shocked many. To me, this act was the natural result of a process that has been germinating...

Mar 13, 2016, 6:03 PM

Beggars Can’t be Choosers

If you ask the average Israeli whether s/he thinks s/he knows a great deal about America, s/he is likely to answer yes. Events in the U.S. are covered regularly in the Israeli media. American films are screened, American music...

Jan 24, 2016, 9:30 PM

How can the left and right be so wrong?

Last week, a right-of-center friend from the U.S. tweeted a link at me to an article, from Commentary’s website, written by Jonathan Tobin, entitled: “Requiem for a Two State Solution” . I briefly considered responding to Tobin’s piece in...

Nov 22, 2015, 6:57 PM

Jews and Immigration

The dilemma of the Syrian migrants is a particularly difficult one for American Jews; for an American/Israeli/Jew the Syrian refugee crisis is even more difficult; for the son of an immigrant to the United States who arrived on America’s...

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About Me

Marc Schulman is the editor of Historycentral.com -- the largest history web site. He is the author a series of Multimedia History Apps as well as a recent biography of JFK. He holds a BA and MA from Columbia University, and currently lives in Tel Aviv. He is also a regular contributor to Newsweek authoring the Tel Aviv Diaries