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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.

As Jew-hatred skyrockets across the Western world, will anyone step up to take the necessary legal and political actions that might convince us to stay?
For a new generation of activists, the former Labour Party leader is something of a fossil, no matter his common bond of anti-Israel sentiment.
The world is on the cusp of making the same mistake with Hamas that it did with Hezbollah in Lebanon in 2006. Still, there is progress to be made if the involved parties pay attention.
Deep down, the mayor-elect knows that his proposal to arrest the Israeli prime minister is a non-starter. He can’t admit that, however, or his supporters would regard it as a sell-out.
Its abolition is not a mere slogan. It is a plan of action to be implemented in those schools and synagogues and community centers that would be permitted to exist.
While the current crop of Western leaders is unlikely to heed the litany of anti-Jewish complaints by Catherine Connolly, she is set to be a major component of the global movement to isolate and weaken Israel.
If you are going to blame Jews for the current surge in antisemitism, particularly in an outlet serving the Christian community, it helps to have a Jewish author do so.
In adopting it, the world body became the main vehicle for the promotion of Jew-hatred, creating a bureaucratic apparatus designed to amplify the Arab and Palestinian campaign to eliminate Israel as a sovereign state.
For two years, Jews have been living with the consequences: insults, violence, injuries and deaths. I would say now is the time to fight back.
It unfolds over time—from the conditions necessary to halt the war to the reconstruction of what the text calls “New Gaza,” along with the deradicalization of its population.
He understands very well that the best way to blunt accusations of antisemitism is to assemble a group of Jewish sycophants around him.
A tradition of enmity towards Jews and Judaism goes back centuries.