Abraham H. Foxman

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Oct 15, 2024, 4:26 PM

The most important vote US Jews will ever cast

With Israel in peril and the Jewish community under attack, we need a president with a commitment to democratic norms

Mar 4, 2022, 5:31 PM

Fake history about Anne Frank becomes fake news

The last known photograph of Anne taken in May 1942, taken at a passport photo shoot, two months before the family went into hiding. (Photo collection, Anne Frank House, Amsterdam. Public Domain Work)

'60 Minutes' and HarperCollins have irresponsibly added to recent buzz about now-debunked claims about the Franks' betrayal. They should take corrective measures

Sep 11, 2020, 3:46 AM

Trump is bad for America and bad for the Jews

Former US vice president Joe Biden speaks in Wilmington, Delaware, on March 12, 2020, left, and President Donald Trump speaks at the White House in Washington on April 5, 2020. (AP Photo, File)

For 50+ years, I kept out of politics; now, with a demagogue who threatens American democracy as US president, I must speak out

Apr 12, 2018, 12:45 AM

Never again — probably

Holocaust survivor and former Israeli chief rabbi Yisrael Meir Lau lights a torch at a ceremony at the Yad Vashem Holocaust Memorial Museum in Jerusalem, as Israel marks Holocaust Remembrance Day,April 11, 2018 (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Trumpism has destroyed the social contract that protected Jews and other minority communities

Jan 29, 2018, 6:25 PM

How Poland can fix its Holocaust speech legislation

During a 2001 memorial service in the Polish town Jedwabne, Jews commemorate the WWII murder of its Jewish community by Polish neighbors. (Wikimedia Commons)

'Polish death camps' is indeed inaccurate, but Poles certainly murdered plenty of Jews during WWII

Jul 21, 2015, 1:41 PM

Why Congress must reject the Iran deal

A 'no' vote, though only symbolic, would send a clear message that the entire nuclear deal is based on a lie

Jul 20, 2015, 7:16 PM

South Korea’s Jewish problem

Reports of anti-Semitism in the East Asian nation highlight the danger of myths about Jewish financial prowess

Jun 20, 2015, 12:23 PM

Miri Regev and free speech in Israel

Minister of Culture Miri Regev (center) at an award ceremony for Israeli theater, in Tel Aviv, on June 19, 2015. (Photo by FLASH90)

When the culture minister says too bad, you lost and we won, she reveals a grave misunderstanding of democracy

May 13, 2015, 3:12 PM

In Jerusalem, finding solutions to anti-Semitism

Without constant vigilance and widescale, coordinated action, this enduring hatred can metastasize

Apr 15, 2015, 9:46 PM

On Holocaust Remembrance Day, assessing ‘Never Again’

70 years after the Holocaust, Iranian threats to obliterate Israel are dismissed and genocide is a devalued term

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About Me

Abraham Foxman was national director of the Anti-Defamation League for 28 years. He is a Holocaust survivor.