History Uprooted
A new exhibition at the Canadian Museum for Human Rights in Winnipeg peddles PLO myths about Israel’s war for independence in 1948.
Jeffrey Herf
Jeffrey Herf is a frequent contributor to Quillette and distinguished professor emeritus of history at the University of Maryland, College Park. His latest book is ‘Three Faces of Antisemitism.‘
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A Paradoxical War
The American debate about the campaign against the Islamic Republic of Iran.
The Central Dichotomy
An appreciation of Richard Herzinger (1957–2025).
An Evening in Neukölln
On 10 May, US historian Jeffrey Herf spoke at a small café in Berlin established to discuss antisemitism and the Western Left’s growing hostility to the state of Israel.
Agitprop at the AHA
If the American Historical Association formally adopts a resolution accusing Israel of “scholasticide,” it could destroy the organisation’s reputation for serious scholarship.
Kamala Harris’s Very Big Tent
Can Kamala Harris be the stateswoman that the United States and the free world so urgently need?
An Interrupted Genocide
The widespread reluctance to describe the atrocities of 7 October correctly is an impediment to peace.
Springtime for Sinwar
Notes on the pro-Hamas Left and its antecedents.
A Moronic Inferno
America First and the looming spectre of an illiberal international.
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.
The Ideology of Mass Murder
Hamas and the origins of the October 7th attacks.
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.