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Mar 9, 2019, 12:09 AM

Congresswoman Ilhan Omar is an anti-Semite

I’ll tell you why Congresswoman Ilhan Omar from Minnesota is an outspoken anti-Semite. The Middle East is home to some of the most ruthless dictators, autocrats, and despots, who rule their countries as feudal overlords and dynastic tyrants. But...

Aug 27, 2018, 8:30 PM

Farewell Senator John McCain

Sen. John McCain represented the best of America, the finest of his breed, and the noblest of humanity. His fortitude was undeniable. After being shot down on a wartime mission over North Vietnam the Navy pilot suffered brutally at the...

Aug 25, 2018, 9:00 AM

The America I cherish

The first incident I saw as an Associated Presswriter in Philadelphia in 1969 was the FBI using giant cutters to arrest Vietnam War protestors who had chained themselves to a fence. Later, while writing a book at U.S. News and...

Jul 20, 2018, 11:42 PM

The turncoat president

After Trump betrayed America at the Helsinki press conference we have to wonder whether the “eyes only” daily briefings from intelligence chiefs have now been sanitized to withhold portions from the president. Can they trust him now with secret, classified...

Jul 1, 2018, 8:46 AM

Green Light to Harm Journalists

What did Trump expect when stigmatizing journalists as “scum,” “horrible people,” purveyors of “fake news,” and “the enemy of the American people.” His rage is nothing short of incitement to physical harm. Remember a GOP electoral candidate from Montana who...

May 16, 2018, 6:10 AM

Jerusalem – Abbas lied

For those too young or not even born when Israel captured east Jerusalem and the Old City in the Six Day War of 1967, let me relate what I saw as a journalist. I am prompted to write this piece...

Jan 27, 2018, 11:17 PM

Remember, Remember, Remember

Holocaust Survivors & their Triumphant Legacy of Endurance By Anthony S. Pitch (Author of Our Crime Was Being Jewish) A special remembrance for International Holocaust Remembrance Day 27 January 2018 The concentration camps were utilized to dispose of literally millions of Jews, who died...

Dec 9, 2017, 6:53 PM

Eyewitness to Desecration in Jerusalem

For those too young or not even born when Israel captured east Jerusalem and the Old City in the Six Day War of 1967, let me relate what I saw as a journalist. I am prompted to write this piece...

Nov 28, 2017, 5:35 AM

There is a way to cut Trump down to size and halt the slide to autocracy. But first let us count the ways he behaved like a drunk. He cares zilch for checks and balances. He rides roughshod over minorities....

Nov 7, 2017, 8:40 AM

Joking about Concentration Camps

A Jewish celebrity, Larry David, recently poked fun at Nazi concentration camps to the hilarious guffaws of millions of television viewers watching Saturday Night Live. He imagined being sent to a concentration camp while Hitler was in power. “Would I...

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About Me

Anthony S. Pitch is the author of Our Crime Was Being Jewish. He was Associated Press Broadcast Editor in Philadelphia and a journalist in England, Israel and Africa before becoming a senior writer in the books division of U.S. News & World Report in Washington, D.C