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Ben Cohen

Featured Columnist

Ben Cohen is a senior analyst with the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies (FDD) and director of FDD’s rapid response outreach, specializing in global antisemitism, anti-Zionism and Middle East/European Union relations. A London-born journalist with 30 years of experience, he previously worked for BBC World and has contributed to Commentary, The Wall Street Journal, Tablet and Congressional Quarterly. He was a senior correspondent at The Algemeiner for more than a decade and is a weekly columnist for JNS. Cohen has reported from conflict zones worldwide and held leadership roles at the Anti-Defamation League and the American Jewish Committee. His books include Some of My Best Friends: A Journey Through 21st Century Antisemitism.

Sbarro Pizzeria Bombing 2001
Opinion
Ahlam Tamimi’s 16th victim
American-Israeli Chana Nachenberg, 31 at the time of a suicide bombing at a Sbarro pizza restaurant in Jerusalem in 2001, died after all years languishing in a coma while attack mastermind Tamimi lives freely in Jordan.
Jun. 2, 2023
Ben Cohen
President of Tunisia Kais Saied, March 2021. Credit: Hussein Eddeb/Shutterstock.
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Djerba attack shines a light on Arab antisemitism denial
To deny that the El Ghriba attack was targeted against Jews is as absurd as saying the same about the October 2018 massacre at the Tree of Life Synagogue in Pittsburgh.
May. 19, 2023
Ben Cohen
Berlin Holocaust Monument and Memorial
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Germany’s far-right comes to Yad Vashem
We should have few illusions about the AfD, and, indeed, its co-thinkers and sister parties elsewhere in Europe, but we should not disdain them automatically.
May. 12, 2023
Ben Cohen
Propaganda recruiting poster of the 27th SS volunteer division Langemarck with the title: “Flemish All in the SS Langemarck.” Credit: LordLiberty via Wikimedia Commons.
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The antisemitism that never went away
There it was again: the classic Jewish infiltrator in the form of a man with a fleshy face, hooked nose and scheming expression, carrying a box labeled “Goldman Sachs.”
May. 5, 2023
Ben Cohen
Credit Suisse in the Swiss financial center of Zurich, April 19, 2021. Credit: YueStock/Shutterstock.
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‘Righteous justice’: Credit Suisse’s Nazi bank accounts
The collusion of the banks in “neutral” Switzerland with Hitler’s regime resulted in a historic $1.25 billion settlement in 1999 with Holocaust survivors and their relatives. But the story doesn’t end there.
Apr. 28, 2023
Ben Cohen
Sudan flag on a military uniform. Credit: Bumble Dee/Shutterstock.
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Sudan in peril, and Israel’s response
Peace is only possible in Khartoum if the causes of nearly 70 years of instability are meaningfully addressed.
Apr. 21, 2023
Ben Cohen
Captured Jews who participated in the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising are rounded up by the Waffen SS on Nowolipie Street between April 19 and May 16, 1943. Credit: Wikimedia Commons.
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‘From Every Floor, From Every Window:’ Remembering the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising
The energy and the intensity shown by the 700 poorly armed young Jewish fighters reflected the understanding, deep in their hearts, that the battle for the ghetto was not ultimately one in which they would prevail.
Apr. 14, 2023
Ben Cohen
Israelis protest in Tel Aviv against the government's judicial overhaul on March 9, 2023. Photo by Tomer Neuberg/Flash90.
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Their protests, not ours: Palestinian Solidarity Movement’s reaction to Israel’s political upheaval
If you advocate a campaign of Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions against a nation in toto, then you end up judging the protests before you have even assessed them.
Mar. 31, 2023
Ben Cohen
French Israelis light memorial candles as they gather at Paris Square in Jerusalem in a demonstration against antisemitism in France following the murder of Mireille Knoll, an 85-year-old Jewish woman in Paris, March 28, 2018. Photo by Hadas Parush/Flash90.
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‘The system has failed:’ Antisemitism flourishes in France
A growing proportion of French society doesn’t agree that the problems faced by Jews are their problems as well, according to a recent survey.
Mar. 24, 2023
Ben Cohen
Roger Waters. Credit: Andrés Ibarra, November 2018.
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‘Auf Wiedersehen,’ Roger Waters?
These days, the question is less about where and when he will play, and more about whether he will be permitted to play at all.
Mar. 17, 2023
Ben Cohen
Hezbollah and Lebanese flags. Credit: Arthur Sarradin.
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The EU must designate all of Hezbollah
It position remains that the Lebanese-entrenched and Iranian-back organization is half a terror group and half a political party. That needs to be reversed immediately.
Mar. 10, 2023
Ben Cohen
Elly Schlein in Turin, Italy, February 2023. Credit: Mike Dotta/Shutterstock.
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Elly Schlein’s Etruscan nose
There is a great deal to unpack here, most obviously the newly elected politician’s determination to deny that she is Jewish in the same breath as condemning antisemitism.
Mar. 3, 2023
Ben Cohen
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