Jeffrey Herf

Jeffrey Herf is Professor Emeritus, University of Maryland, College Park, and author most recently of ‘Israel’s Moment’ (Cambridge University Press, 2022).

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Holocaust Historians, the Genocide Charge, and Gaza

The accusation is wrong on the facts and objectively serves to support the intent of Hamas to murder Jews with impunity.

Norman J.W. Goda / Jeffrey Herf

23 Nov 2023 · 11 min read

The Ideology of Mass Murder

Hamas and the origins of the October 7th attacks.

Jeffrey Herf

10 Oct 2023 · 8 min read

A Life in the Fray

A new memoir by Martin Peretz, the former owner and editor-in-chief of The New Republic, provides a timely reminder of what American journalism has lost.

Jeffrey Herf

10 Jul 2023 · 21 min read

Heidegger’s Downfall

Richard Wolin’s reappraisal of Martin Heidegger offers both original contributions and a synthesis of critical scholarship. The result is a timely work of enduring importance.

Jeffrey Herf

22 Feb 2023 · 18 min read

Islamist Terror; Journalistic Error

In a valuable new book, historian Richard Landes argues that Western reporting on the Second Palestinian Intifada helped to seed a misunderstanding of terrorism.

Jeffrey Herf

2 Dec 2022 · 19 min read

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

13 Sep 2022 · 7 min read