Jeffrey Herf

Jeffrey Herf is Distinguished University Professor, Department of History, University of Maryland, College Park, and the author most recently of “Israels’ Moment” (Cambridge University Press, 2022).

Never Apologize for Trying to Tell the Truth

Those who repress inconvenient facts or produce fictitious evidence to nourish a politically convenient story are simply not historians.

Jeffrey Herf
Jeffrey Herf
7 min read
Show Your Support Today

Featured Articles

Anything-and-Everything Socialism

China in the Age of Surveillance

The Fall of ‘Nature’

The Line Between Anti-Racism and Racism Keeps Getting Fainter

From the Blog

Canada Called Itself a Genocide State. Iran Was Listening

Canada’s Cultural-Appropriation Tempest, Five Years Later

Captiongate: How a Single Zoom Call Propelled Canada’s Greens Into Pronoun Meltdown