Alan Newman

Perusing dusty newspaper archives, you stumble onto an article that at first glance seems like it could describe the massacre in southern Israel on Oct. 7, 2023.

The reporter writes about a “scene of utter desolation and horror,” and then goes on to describe “greybearded Jews stabbed to death, little Jewish children with numerous knife wounds, and whole families locked in their homes and burned to death by the rioters.”

The reporter states, “It will take days before the world will obtain a true picture of all the atrocities committed by the Arabs during the pogrom.”

However, this piece wasn’t about the Hamas-led invasion and massacre of Jewish communities near the Gaza Strip. It was an article from the Aug. 8, 1934, edition of the Jewish Daily Bulletin — a daily newspaper

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