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Edwin Black

Edwin Black is the author of several books including “ IBM and the Holocaust” and the initiator of the Covenant of the Democratic Nations effort. For his prior efforts, he has been awarded the Moral Courage Award, the Moral Compass Award, and the Justice for All Award.

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InDepth

When Baghdad Burned The June 1941 Farhud Massacre

By Edwin Black

The Golden Square wanted Germany to destroy the British and Jewish presence in their country. The Third Reich craved what was beneath the ground – oil.

Headline / Op-Eds

Desperate and Fake; Another ‘Israeli Apartheid’ Report

By Edwin Black

In an extraordinary move to attain media synchrony, Amnesty International actually pre-positioned an “embargoed” press release to maximize simultaneous anti-Israel impact.

Headline / Analysis

Yom HaGirush: The Inside Story of ‘Expulsion Day’

By Edwin Black

That name, Yom HaGirush, marks when Jewish communities across many countries were once again dispossessed, but became repossessed in the free nation of Israel.

Op-Eds

On Farhud Day, Many Ask: Could It Happen Again?

By Edwin Black

Israel is fighting the same Hitler principles today as civilization was in the 1940s.

Featured / Coronavirus / Media / Antisemitism

The Vaccine Blood Libel

By Edwin Black

Saeb Erekat, a top Palestinian negotiator, was rushed to a Jerusalem hospital when he faced a COVID-19 respiratory crisis.

Op-Eds

Why the New Remote Age Pushed Me To Launch The Edwin Black Show

By Edwin Black

Those of us who have devoted our lives to excavating true history and purveying verifiable genuine fact-in-context are now called upon to take the next bold step. From the lecture stage, printed page, and television studio, we must now leap into the Remote Age on the wings of informed perspective and reliable information.

Op-Eds

Can Netanyahu be Justly Prosecuted for Media Manipulation?

By Edwin Black

The Israeli prime minister’s innocence or guilt is nowhere near as important as what his conviction on such charges would mean to Israel’s democracy.

Headline / Analysis

Who’s Funding Illegal Palestinian Settlements in Area C—Terrorist Links

By Edwin Black

For decades, open allegations have been publicly aired alleging links between the Union of Agricultural Work Committees and the Popular Front for the Liberation Palestine.

Op-Eds

Who’s Funding Illegal Palestinian Settlements in Area C—Nearly 10,000 Cases

By Edwin Black

“Area C,” which comprises some 60 percent of the West Bank, also known as Judea and Samaria, has become highly volatile again. In the past, debate has centered on Jewish settlements. Now, “illegal Palestinian settlements” sprouting across the region, are under the spotlight.

Op-Eds

Who’s Funding Illegal Palestinian Settlements in Area C— Confronting the History

By Edwin Black

“Area C,” which comprises some 60 percent of the West Bank, also known as Judea and Samaria, is making news these days. This time, the hot button issue is illegal Palestinian settlements sprouting across the region, shredding the last vestige of the Oslo Accords, which, for a generation, propelled the “two-state solution.”

Op-Eds

Israel’s Tourism Triumph

By Edwin Black

Despite the best efforts of the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement (BDS), Israeli tourism has flourished beyond any expectation. Two tunnels in Jerusalem that testify to Israel’s incontrovertible connection to the land and its history have proven to hold great interest for tourists from abroad.

Op-Eds

Israel’s Tourism Triumph—Part II of IV: Luxury Hotels Beckon

By Edwin Black

Proof of the economic gleam in Israel’s tourism increase is the quality of the hotel room growth. Israel is witnessing nothing less than an explosion of high-end luxury hotels.

Op-Eds

Israel’s Tourism Triumph—Part I of IV: The Air Bridge

By Edwin Black

In 2016, 2.9 million total worldwide visitors visited Israel. By the close of 2018, that number had boomed to 4.1 million—and the totals keep climbing. Within the coming decade, Israel expects to employ 98,000 people in its tourism sector.

Op-Eds

A Ballad in the Key of 4G

By Edwin Black

Quite soon, all the survivors will be gone. The Second Generation, including me, will also soon be gone. The Third Generation has the duty to ensure that the Fourth Generation will carry the torch. 'Sha-sha' is no more. It will be the Third and Fourth Generation’s challenge that we “Never Forget,” for ourselves and for the world. This challenge will be immeasurably more difficult in the decades to come than it was for me over the past half century.

Analysis

Mixed Reactions After Prosecution Efforts at UCLA and UCI

By Edwin Black

Thanks to courageous students and others who stepped forward, combined with intense media scrutiny, the rate of acceleration of anti-Semitism on campus and especially at UC colleges, has been temporarily slowed—

Op-Eds

How Historians Will See Canary Mission Years From Now

By Edwin Black

Canary Mission tracks social media and videos, capturing BDS, anti-Zionist, and anti-Semitic expressions, triangulating them into individual profiles that expose and create permanent highly-visible records of the words and images BDS and SJP leaders actually use.

Op-Eds

UCI Preparing to Refer Anti-Israel Disrupters to Prosecution

By Edwin Black

The new UCI case arises from a May 3, 2018 effort by UCI’s College Republicans to host a panel with Israeli Reservists on Duty. After about 40 minutes, a parade of anti-Israel agitators filed in to stage a well-orchestrated and unruly disruption, using a bullhorn and shouting derogatory chants.

Analysis

Prosecutor Expands UCLA Disruption Probe as Jewish Groups Extend Criminality Approach to other Campuses

By Edwin Black

The fourth installment on the belligerent disruption of a UCLA pro-Israel event and the potential crimonal prosecution of the perpetrators

Analysis

LA City Attorney Mulls Prosecution of anti-Israel Disruptors of UCLA Event

By Edwin Black

The third installment on the belligerent disruption of a UCLA pro-Israel event and the potential crimonal prosecution of the perpetrators

Op-Eds

UCLA Students File Criminal Complaints Against anti-Israel Disruptors

By Edwin Black

Students Supporting Israel [SSI] event at UCLA was violently disrupted. Now UCLA students are fling charges against their attackers

Analysis

Pro-Israel Groups Pursue Criminal Aspects of Disruptions

By Edwin Black

Jewish and pro-Israel groups have started to explore the criminal aspects of disruptions of pro-Israel events by anti-Israel groups which continue to intensify into physical aggression and violence across campuses and even into the community.

Op-Eds

The Challenge of Legacy

By Edwin Black

With Facebook, Google, and nations-Poland-reinventing history, it is essential we remember.

Analysis

Mennonites and BDS: A Lawsuit Amid a Legacy

By Edwin Black

The Mennonite Church USA has abandoned its spiritual underpinnings and jumped from its religious exemption into the realm of political and racial bias.

Op-Eds

Hillel at the Crossroads-Part V: Feud Resolution or Escalation

By Edwin Black

The sides are clearly defined: It is either Hillel International's version of the story--or everyone else's

Op-Eds

Hillel at the Crossroads: Accusations of Intimidation in Boston

By Edwin Black

“Hillel International is selling out the students. I watch International Hillel sell out the [chapter] buildings." “Once the university owns the building, there is no way the local Hillel can keep out anti-Israel students because the building is now university property.”

Op-Eds

Hillel at the Crossroads Part III: NEU Hillel Protests “Fear-Based Tactics”

By Edwin Black

Hillel International’s view was that the dispute with NEU Hillel was anomalous -- one negative case out of what officials described as “a thousand positive cases” to be found throughout Boston and the rest of the country.

Op-Eds

Hillel at the Crossroads Part II: How Things Broke Down in Boston

By Edwin Black

What are Hillel International’s rights and duties — and limits — when it comes to improving Jewish campus life? This question may well be decided at Northeastern University (NEU).

Headline / Op-Eds

Hillel at the Crossroads: Who’s Responsible for Hillel?

By Edwin Black

The name Hillel stands for one thing: the next generation. With 550 North American campus affiliates and 56 affiliates overseas, Hillel International is arguably one of America’s largest and most far-reaching Jewish organizations.

Headline / Analysis

Taxpayer Support for Terrorist Salaries Now Impossible to Defend

By Edwin Black

The Palestinian “Law of the Prisoner” openly rewards those convicted of even the most heinous attacks with generous monthly “salaries” and phantom jobs with automatic advancement in the PA government.

Op-Eds

Mike Pence and Trent Franks Lead Thousands of Christians at CUFI’s Pro-Israel Event

By Edwin Black

The domestic political importance of CUFI’s zealous members is not lost on anyone in Washington.

First Person

International Farhud Day: An Insider’s Eyewitness Account

By Edwin Black

The Farhud occurred June 1&2 1941 in Iraq, effectively ending 2,600 yrs of Jewish life in Arab lands

Op-Eds

Passover Punishment: Stunning Unpublished Ruling

By Edwin Black

“It takes some chutzpah for the government to punish a Jewish woman for celebrating Passover. It takes even more chutzpah to say that they are the only government agency in DC exempt from our civil rights laws.”

Op-Eds

Replacing The UN With The Covenant Of Democratic Nations

By Edwin Black

Due to a pervasive discontent with the UN, the concept for 'The Covenant of Democratic Nations,' a diplomatic union of democratic countries, was conceived.

Op-Eds

Presidents Conference-Azerbaijan Hanukkah Party — What Really Happened

By Edwin Black

The Conference Chanukah party was timed to coincide with the official Obama's WH Chanukah party nearby and proved Israel has great ties with numerous Muslim countries and is NOT as isolated as feared.

Analysis

Passover Vacation Punishment Case Against Orthodox Employee Continues to Travel Through the Courts

By Edwin Black

How celebrating the holiday of freedom led to a capricious punishment and a legal case that may have significant ramifications.

InDepth

High Anxiety Continues Over Obama in the UN Until January 20

By Edwin Black

Anxiety continues to concern the pro-Israel world over a possible last-minute political move by the Obama administration that could permanently alter the Israeli-Palestinian geo-political landscape

Op-Eds

Will Detroit’s Historic Holocaust Museum Stay True To Its Mission?

By Edwin Black

Too many Holocaust memorials have lost their original identity and transitioned to an institution which devotes itself to both Holocaust and genocide, or simply to global genocide

Interviews and Profiles

Detroit Holocaust Museum Enters New Phase but Stays Strangely Mum

By Edwin Black

Too many Holocaust memorials have lost their original identity and transitioned to an institution which devotes itself to both Holocaust and genocide, or simply to global genocide

InDepth / History

Painful Lessons from the 75th Anniversary of the Farhud

By Edwin Black

In Arabic, Farhud means “violent dispossession.” This forgotten Holocaust-era pogrom was the first step toward the extinguishing the 27 centuries of Jewish life in Iraq.

InDepth

Nazi Policy and Black Victims—Before, During, and After the Holocaust—from Africa to Berlin to North Carolina

By Edwin Black

Understanding Nazism and the Holocaust is important for Blacks, Roma, people with disabilities, the gay community, Jehovah’s Witnesses, and other groups in addition to Jews.

Op-Eds

Israel: A Geopolitical Tourist Destination

By Edwin Black

Israel’s tourism industry is a modern miracle. Despite wars and pressures, more than 3million tourists visit Israel annually.

Antisemitism / Boycott / BDS

Inside Canary Mission

By Edwin Black

Because Canary Mission works beneath a complete shroud of secrecy, it has been called “shadowy.”

Analysis

Inside Canary Mission

By Edwin Black

Canary Mission aggregates public statements, videos, & photos of leaders in the anti-Israel movement

Interviews and Profiles

An Exit Interview with the ADL's Abe Foxman

By Edwin Black

Anti-Semitism's worse today than in generations but things are different now because there's Israel

Boycott / BDS

New Israel Fund Critics See BDS Lawsuits In Wake Of Israeli Supreme Court Ruling

By Edwin Black

With the new legal ruling, BDS critics predict there will be litigation to recover damages from the NIF and its grantees engaged in the BDS movement.

Op-Eds

Oil is Still Fueling Iran’s Atomic Ambitions

By Edwin Black

Oil impoverishment is the only reason Iran is negotiating on its uranium enrichment-they are linked.

Op-Eds

Los Angeles Conference Confronts BDS Financing and Tactics

By Edwin Black

Today the BDS Movement is the vanguard of growing anti-Semitic agitation and anti-Israel activity

Op-Eds

New Israel Fund Received More than $1 Million from US State Department

By Edwin Black

MK Yoni Chetboun said the NIF was committed to “erasing the Jewish identity from the Jewish State”

Terrorism

Senior Palestinian Authority Officials Scrutinize And Approve Monthly Payouts To Terrorists

By Edwin Black

“Martyrdom Establishment” compensation is dispensed worldwide, wherever the terrorist act takes place, according to a 2010 Palestinian Authority Social Ministry report.

Op-Eds

Palestinian Authority Studied Details of Each Terrorist Act Before Issuing Salaries

By Edwin Black

Abbas scrutinized details of each case details of each terrorist act before awarding $ and honors

Analysis

The Shape and Design of Iran’s Nuclear Warhead

By Edwin Black

Iran has been developing its nuclear warhead for sixteen years. It is nearly perfected.

Op-Eds

"PUMP" to Kick Oil Addiction

By Edwin Black

If simple fuel choice were implemented, the power of petroleum and those who sell it would cease.

Israel At War: Operation Protective Edge

Christian Group Offers Passionate Support For Israel At Critical Moment

By Edwin Black

CUFI’s purpose, according to the group’s website, is “to educate Christians on the biblical and moral imperatives to support Israel and to build Christian support for Israel throughout America.”

Middle East / Levant / US / Politics / Hamas / News Briefs / Palestinian Authority

US Defunding Effort Moves to Formal House Resolution

By Edwin Black

For Lowey, the question is whether she will break with the Obama Administration, which has signaled willingness to continue funding the new Hamas-infused Palestinian Authority.

Op-Eds

Nita Lowey's Leadership Moment in Israel and the Peace Process

By Edwin Black

Lowey's choice: the law and common sense on one hand, and her party and extenuating circumstances on the other.

Op-Eds

Inside the Presidents' Conference and the J Street Vote

By Edwin Black

This vote was not about the Conference. This was about J Street; the vote was not even close.

Terrorism

Key Lawmakers Ready to Defund Palestinians Over PA-Hamas Unity Pact And Terrorism

By Edwin Black

Hundreds of operatives from Hamas as well as Hizbullah, operating with millions of money-laundered dollars, have created a lawless domain that funnels money back to the Middle East, according to a 2010 report by the Crime and Narcotics Center of the Central Intelligence Agency.

Op-Eds

Mass Shofar Blast Against Anti-Israel Enabling on April 29

By Edwin Black

Some American Jews feel their community has been hijacked from within by groups waging war against Israel seemingly in the name of the Jewish people.

Op-Eds

Financing Mideast Flames on a Burned-Out Budget

By Edwin Black

Under a sliding scale, carefully articulated in the Law of the Prisoner, the more heinous the act of terrorism, the longer the prison sentence, the higher the salary.

Front Page

The Egyptian Jew Who’s Battling Coca-Cola

By Edwin Black

For 15 years, Egyptian-Jewish businessman Refael Bigio has been battling a goliath corporate adversary, the Coca-Cola Company. Bigio charges that Coke has been profiting from his family’s stolen property just outside Cairo.

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