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Ben Cohen

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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.

In the strictly legal sense of that word, that has already been denied to her and her family, at least in France.
The same impulse that drove the eventual expulsion of nearly 800,000 Jews from the Arab world is now coming back to haunt us in the very countries where Jews sought freedom.
The pattern of recent history suggests that once the Mideast hostilities end this time around, the legal and political warfare directed against Israel will only intensify.
Political paranoia variously holds the Jews responsible for the death of the Messiah, spreading the bubonic plague during the medieval period and sparking two world wars.
For as long as the “kafala system” survives, slavery is alive and well in those Arab states that have made their peace with Israel.
A record shames a country whose ethic is built upon the triangle of “liberty, equality and fraternity.”
The Biden administration overlooked copiously documented accusations against the agency that range from institutionalized corruption to the propagation of anti-Semitism, focusing instead on the provision of educational and other services to 500,000 Palestinian children.
Only one in five residents lives in a country designated as “Free” (as opposed to “Partly Free” or “Not Free”). That is, in societies run by democratically elected, accountable governments where basic civil and political rights are guaranteed.
The true purpose of the “Jerusalem Declaration” is to carve out a space for the elimination of the Jewish state without being accused of anti-Semitism.
An alternative definition by the “Nexus Task Force on Israel and Antisemitism” offers an escape route to those who oppose Israel’s existence.
He talked about Israel positively while at the same time shining a light on the double standard that enables his government to cozy up to repressive regimes around the world, from Iran to China, while depicting Israel as a rogue apartheid state.
One can hardly expect Israel or the Zionist movement to come out favorably; the portrait that is painted in classrooms and educational materials is duly hostile.