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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.

Yellow Star of David with shadow on black background. Credit: Ausra Barysiene/Shutterstock.
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America has to remain a leader in the fight against anti-Semitism
The stalled nomination pf Deborah Lipstadt should go through as soon as possible as this scourge continues to intensify worldwide.
March 25, 2022
Ben Cohen
President Slobodan Milošević of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, President Alija Izetbegović of the Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina, and President Franjo Tudjman of the Republic of Croatia initial the Dayton Peace Accords ending the conflict arising from the breakup of the Republic of Yugoslavia, Dec. 14, 1995. Credit: U.S. Air Force/Staff Sgt. Brian Schlumbohm via Wikimedia Commons.
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From Israel to Ukraine, self-reliance is key
However sympathetic they feel towards the beleaguered Ukrainians, Americans are still reluctant to place their troops in combat roles absent a direct threat to this country. That reality gives succor to Russia and China, neither of whom have to worry about the twists and turns of public opinion.
March 18, 2022
Ben Cohen
France's Interior Minister Gérald Darmanin. Credit: Wikimedia Commons.
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French politicians call time on anti-Zionist provocation
That misinformation and vile anti-Jewish sentiment are being stripped of intellectual and moral legitimacy in certain circles is a most welcome development.
March 11, 2022
Ben Cohen
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy greets Israel’s President Isaac Herzog upon his arrival to Ukraine, in part to address an international gathering marking 80 years since the Babi Yar massacre, Oct. 5, 2021. Source: Isaac Herzog/Twitter.
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The delegitimization campaigns targeting Israel and Ukraine
Refusenik Natan Sharansky famously argued that legitimate criticism of Israel could be distinguished from anti-Semitic invective by the application of the “3Ds” test: delegitimization, demonization and double standards. In the case of Ukraine, Vladimir Putin has applied all three.
March 4, 2022
Ben Cohen
Russian President Vladimir Putin. Credit: Photographer RM/Shutterstock.
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On Putin, the Jews and the Future of the World
Russian dictator Vladimir Putin is benign in his attitude towards Jews. But as Jews living in the West, we owe it to ourselves and our fellow citizens to oppose Putin’s imperial project with every fiber of our beings.
Feb. 25, 2022
Ben Cohen
Chinatown in New York City. Credit: Zoltan Tarlacz/Shutterstock.
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We need to step up the fight against anti-Asian hatred in America
No two forms of prejudice are exactly alike, but whatever the contextual differences between the discrimination encountered by the Jewish and Asian communities, there is no question that we need to be close allies at this point in time.
Feb. 18, 2022
Ben Cohen
Akiva Elder. Source: Screenshot.
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The Israeli left’s anti-Semitism blind spot
For them, the cause of attacks lies ultimately with the government’s policies in the Palestinian territories, which is not seeing the situation in its entirety.
Feb. 11, 2022
Ben Cohen
Rep. Marie Newman (D-Ill.) in 2018. Credit: Christopher Dilts via Wikimedia Commons.
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A ‘Palestine-firster’ scandal comes to the US Congress
It’s painfully obvious that no American interest is served by the adoption of anti-Israel positions on the part of an elected representative at the behest of an outside adviser who calls the shots.
Feb. 4, 2022
Ben Cohen
Caricatures of the late Palestinian Liberation Organization leader Yasser Arafat in the new Yasser Arafat Museum in Ramallah, January 2022. Source: Twitter/Khaled Abu Toameh.
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What the row over caricatures of Yasser Arafat tells us about Palestinian politics
Anything other than uncritical veneration of their political leaders is regarded with suspicion—or worse.
Jan. 28, 2022
Ben Cohen
Mohsen Rezaei, Iran’s vice president for economic development. Credit: Wikimedia Commons.
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Iranian AMIA fugitive is feted by Latin America’s far-left
Mohsen Rezaei, a fugitive from terrorism charges who can be legitimately arrested in any country where he arrives, continues to travel the world as a representative of the theocracy he has faithfully served throughout his career.
Jan. 14, 2022
Ben Cohen
Protesters attend a demonstration against vaccines in Belgium. Credit: Alexandros Michailidis/Shutterstock.
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Has the time come to bribe the unvaccinated?
The poisoning of our society’s discourse with pseudo-scientific claims and conspiracy theories—often rooted in medieval prejudices about Jews—is destroying trust in education, in government and worst of all, in each other.
Jan. 7, 2022
Ben Cohen
Chinese President Xi Jinping. Photo by Gil Corzo/Shutterstock.
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Russia and China’s war on the past
Those in control of the present have driven a bulldozer through the recent past in a blatant attempt to obliterate the historical record of democratic struggles in both nations — and all in the service of a decidedly non-democratic future.
Dec. 31, 2021
Ben Cohen
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