Edwin Black

Edwin Black

Edwin Black is a Washington, D.C. – based investigative journalist.

His books, available on Amazon, include:

* British Petroleum and the Redline Agreement: The West’s Secret Pact to Get Mideast Oil

* Financing the Flames: How Tax-Exempt and Public Money Fuel a Culture of Confrontation and Terror in Israel

* IBM and the Holocaust: The Strategic Connection Between Nazi Germany and America’s Most Powerful Corporation

* Internal Combustion: How Corporations and Governments Addicted the World to Oil and Derailed the Alternatives

* Nazi Nexus: America’s Corporate Connections to  Hitler’s Holocaust

* The Farhud: Roots of the Arab-Nazi Alliance in the Holocaust

* The Transfer Agreement: The Dramatic Story of the Pact Between the Third Reich and Jewish Palestine

* War Against the Weak: Eugenics and America’s Plan to Create a Master Race

‘No Resting Place’ sears and stuns

No Resting Place: Holocaust Poland by Rick Halperin and Denise Gee; photographs by Sherry Aikman SMU Embrey Human Rights Program/Terrace Partners (October 2017). Hardcover (11.75” x 11”); 168 pages; 206 color images; $39.95. ISBN 978-0-692-85960-5 By Edwin Black No Resting Place/Holocaust Poland achieves searing power to illuminate the dark burning reality of Nazi concentration camps […]

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Books, Poetry & Short Stories, Edwin Black, Jewish History

Mennonite group seeks court protection to boycott Israel

(c) Edwin Black Ellen Koontz, a Kansas contract schoolteacher, is asking a federal judge to re-affirm the anti-Jewish boycott campaign begun by Adolf Hitler on April 1, 1933; openly adopted shortly thereafter by the Mufti of Jerusalem as part of the Arab-Nazi alliance during the Holocaust; internationalized against the Jewish State after WWII by the

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Edwin Black, Middle East, USA

Hillel at the Crossroads, Part 5

  Edwin Black’s latest 5–part investigative series, Hillel at the Crossroads, is based on more than 100 interviews in 4 countries, and the acquisition of many documents and internal emails. This is Part 5.  Click on a part number to read a previous installment in this series: I, II, III, IV Feud resolution or escalation? By Edwin Black WASHINGTON, D.C.

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Edwin Black, USA

Columnist denounces Israel’s opponents, seeks to replace U.N. with Covenant of Democratic Nations

By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO – Author and columnist Edwin Black is touring the United States, Australia, and other democracies to promote the creation of a Covenant of Democratic Nations to replace the United Nations, the latter of which he describes as being so heavily influenced by anti-democratic, authoritarian regimes as to have outlived

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Donald H. Harrison, Edwin Black, International, Middle East, USA

Court upholds airport’s punishment of Orthodox employee who observed Passover; appeal is expected

(c) Edwin Black WASHINGTON, D.C. — Three judges of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit surprisingly rejected the appeal of Susan Abeles, a Washington D.C. Orthodox Jew, who was punished by the Metropolitan Washington Airports Authority (MWAA) because she took off work for the last two days of Passover 2013, as she

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Edwin Black, Jewish Religion, USA

Azerbaijan’s Chanukah party and biased reporting

(c) By Edwin Black WASHINGTON, D.C. — On December 14, 2016, the Conference of Presidents of Major Jewish Organizations (the Presidents Conference) in concert with the Embassy of Azerbaijan held a historic Chanukah party in Washington, D.C. that will be talked about for some time. Controversy continues to swirl over not only who attended the

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Edwin Black, International, Middle East, USA

Employee disciplined for observing Pesach’s last 2 days

By Edwin Black WASHINGTON, D.C. Susan Abeles’ saga began in 2013 when she took time off to observe the last two days of Passover, just as she had done annually for the past 26 years. During those years, Abeles, an Orthodox Jew, worked for the Metropolitan Washington Airports Authority (MWAA), mainly as a data specialist.

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What are Obama’s intentions toward Israel?

By Edwin Black   Anxiety continues to roil through the pro-Israel world over a possible last-minute political move by the Obama administration that could permanently alter the Israeli-Palestinian geo-political landscape. Forty-eight hours after the November 8 election, I flew to South Florida for a series of lectures and briefings organized by StandWithUs, NOVA Southeast University

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Edwin Black, International, Middle East, USA

Will trail blazing Detroit Holocaust Museum maintain its character? New interim leadership is strangely mum

By Edwin Black DETROIT, Michigan — Of the many local and regional Holocaust memorials and museums scattered across America, one stands out among the best: The Holocaust Memorial Center in suburban Detroit. For me, the legacy and future of the institution is personal. Correctly billed as America’s “first Holocaust museum,” the Detroit enterprise was conceived

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Edwin Black, Jewish History, USA

Richard Allen’s pro-Israel guerrilla media campaign

By Edwin Black Richard Allen is not a careful, polished Jewish communal leader with a seasoned staff operating from a mid-town Manhattan office, ensconced behind a stylized logo, fortified by tax-exempt donations and burnished advisors. Allen is a private businessman. He wields his entire “organization” from a computer in his office and, not infrequently, from

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Edwin Black, Middle East, USA