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Two new bios document “Ben Hecht’s vital role in challenging America to recognize the Holocaust, and Jews’ right to a state of their own”

ALGEMEINER Ben Hecht: Hero of Israel and the Holocaust by Harold Brackman May 3, 2019 …Hecht joked that he “became a Jew” only in 1939. This was just around the time he met Peter Bergson, the alias of Hillel Kook, … Continue reading

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The Deir Yassin “massacre”: “The myth is the result of reckless propaganda by the Irgun”

MOSAIC MAG A New Book Argues That a Massacre Never Happened at Deir Yassin Translated from original by Avi Woolf August 7, 2017 In April 1948, the Irgun and Leḥi—two right-wing Jewish militia groups cooperating with but separate from the … Continue reading

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