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A Pro-Hamas Left Emerges

In the pursuit of political goals and an anti-Israel message, Historians Against the War has abandoned the standards of its profession and adopted a stance that objectively supports Hamas’s war aims.

Published on: August 26, 2014
Jeffrey Herf is distinguished university professor in the department of history at the University of Maryland in College Park, where he works on modern European and German history, and author most recently of Nazi Propaganda for the Arab World (Yale University Press, 2009). His essay “In Their Own Words, Why They Fight: Hamas’ All Too-Little Known Fascist Charter” can be found here. His essay “At War with Israel: East Germany’s Enthusiastic Support for Soviet Policy in the Middle East” is forthcoming in the Journal of Cold War Studies.
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