Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Rafael Medoff
Medoff is quite well known.  Right now there is a significant academic/real world (much in the Jewish press) controversy between what's been called the "conventional" or older, traditional account of the attitude and actions of the US, UK etc toward WWII refugee issues and the Holocaust, and the "revisionist" account (which has ties to Revisionist Zionism),  whose position is basically The Abandonment Of The Jews; see also e.g.  Auschwitz bombing debate).  Partly because of relative youth and energy, I think, Medoff is in some ways now the leader of the revisionists - David Wyman is more respected by both sides, but he's pretty old, and as far as I can tell, Medoff's been made sort of the legitimate heir.  Medoff is quite active in putting forward his (not her, btw) theses in the press and to other institutions like museums, etc..  Until very recently I think it is fair to say that the revisionist account was clearly winning and replacing the older US, FDR etc were good guys account. A recent example is the controversy over Robert Rosen's ''Saving the Jews': Franklin Roosevelt and the Holocaust'', foreword by Gerhard Weinberg, afterword by Alan Dershowitz; as you can see at the Wyman Institute and some cites in the Jewish press, Medoff organized a bunch of 50 or so scholars to sign a critique of this vigorously pro-"conventional" book, which had been supported by two very notable people.  So I think this, among others is enough to show that he is a significant person in this significant battle of the books, and his article should be kept. IMHO, he satisfies most of the criteria in  My apologies for going on at such length.  I think these controversies are underreported at Wikipedia & have done a little work to remedy this, and felt I had to explain the context
— User:John, 04:31, 30 April 2008 (UTC)
Stance: keep
Cited policy: WP:PROF (Wikipedia:Notability)