It is maddening that “Nakba Day” was observed at the UN, during which Mahmoud Abbas invited the world to share his grief, and that of all Palestinians, at the failure of the Arabs to destroy the nascent state of Israel. That, of course, is not how he put it. But it’s what he meant. A great […]
June 1-2, 1941: The Farhud In Baghdad
The historian Lyn Julius has just published a piece on “Remembering the Farhud.” Far too few people – perhaps one in a thousand – has ever heard of the Farhud, the two days of mass slaughter of Jews by Arabs in Baghdad on June 1 and 2,1941. This was one of many such mass killings of Jews […]
On the anniversary of the Holocaust’s forgotten pogrom, let’s recall who the “Palestinians” have always been
The jihad against Israel is nothing new, and it didn’t start with the establishment of the State of Israel in 1948 — as I show in detail in my forthcoming book The History of Jihad From Muhammad to ISIS (click here to preorder). This riveting account by Tiffany Gabbay, whose family survived the Farhud in […]