Growing up outside of Cleveland, 71-year-old Mark Steinbock, a retired lawyer and accountant, knew little about his father’s family. “My entire life, I had been told that he had no living relatives,” Steinbock told me Steinbock’s father, Mendel, was born in Demblin, Poland, in 1918 and survived the Holocaust. From a Displaced Persons Camp in... […]
What do sickening violence against Israeli soccer fans in Amsterdam, a recent letter signed by thousands of authors pledging to boycott Israeli cultural institutions, and a new Israeli policy to deport some relatives of convicted terrorists — including citizens — have in common? They all engage in collective punishment, treating individuals as interchangeable with a national,... […]