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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.

U.S. President Donald Trump disembarks Air Force One on Dec. 12, 2020. Credit: Official White House Photos by Shealah Craighead.
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Donald Trump: The un-American president
As he understood it, he had the same official title as Vladimir Putin in Russia and Recep Tayyip Erdoğan in Turkey—men he openly admired—and he craved their reserves of political power as well.
Jan. 8, 2021
Ben Cohen
A rally in Berlin, Germany, in support of the victims of the Charlie Hebdo mass shooting in Paris, Jan. 7, 2015. Credit: Dirk Ingo Franke via Wikimedia Commons.
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A tale of two trials
If something approximating justice was served in Germany and France, by the same token it was denied in Argentina and Pakistan.
Dec. 25, 2020
Ben Cohen
The European Court of Justice (ECJ) in Luxembourg, Nov. 18, 2006. Credit: Cédric Puisney via Wikimedia Commons.
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European hypocrisy laid bare in kosher-slaughter legal judgement
The method of “shechita” has been twisted and distorted by anti-Semites for various tales of blood libel and theologically mandated cruelty allegedly practiced by Jews down the ages.
Dec. 18, 2020
Ben Cohen
Venezuelan President Nicolas Máduro meets with Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei in November 2016. Credit: Wikimedia Commons.
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Biden faces the Iran-Venezuela alliance
The upcoming administration may not succeed in ridding the world of Nicolás Maduro and the ayatollahs, but it is in a position to disrupt and break their goings-on through increased policing of commercial traffic, military transfers and financial transactions between the two.
Dec. 11, 2020
Ben Cohen
Palestinian Authority leader Mahmoud Abbas addresses the United Nations General Assembly on Sept. 26, 2019. Credit: UN Photo/Cia Pak.
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The declining credibility of Palestinian objections to the IHRA definition of anti-Semitism
A dramatic sense of how this process is unfolding was on display at the United Nations—the citadel of global anti-Zionism.
Dec. 4, 2020
Ben Cohen
Map of China. Credit: Wikipedia.
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China wants to blind the world
For officials there, it should be remembered that the word “sovereignty” is interpreted as a license for governments to do whatever they wish within the territories under their jurisdiction.
Nov. 20, 2020
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Human Rights Watch executive director Kenneth Roth. Source: Screenshot.
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Designating anti-Semitism: Positives and pitfalls
Trafficking in anti-Semitic canards should not be permitted to hide behind noble labels like freedom of speech, and nor should doing so leave offenders free from the consequences of their actions.
Nov. 13, 2020
Ben Cohen
A view of the U.N. General Assembly Hall. Credit: Wikimedia Commons.
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Still stuck in a time warp
Only at the United Nations is the Palestinian question still regarded as the key to regional, if not global, peace, when that view has become an anachronism everywhere else.
Nov. 6, 2020
Ben Cohen
British Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn. Credit: Wikimedia Commons.
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Oh, the irony, Jeremy!
He lost two general elections, his personal ratings among the British public were consistently dismal, and he presided over the disgrace when it came to the Jewish community of his party’s open contempt for the country’s laws against racial discrimination and harassment.
Oct. 30, 2020
Ben Cohen
Trump, Biden
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‘So what’? Foreign policy and the 2020 election
It is such a basic thing to say, but perhaps it needs saying: Even if you oppose all foreign aid and all foreign military commitments, the rest of the world cannot be treated as an afterthought, or as something to ignore entirely.
Oct. 23, 2020
Ben Cohen
The exterior of the Palais de Justice in Paris, France. Credit: Wikimedia Commons.
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Can France’s courts learn from Facebook in the fight against anti-Semitism?
Two days before Mark Zuckerberg declared his shift on Holocaust denial, there was a creepy reminder of the danger it poses on full display along the celebrated rue de Rivoli in Paris.
Oct. 16, 2020
Ben Cohen
Haim Bresheeth-Zabner. Source: Screenshot.
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An Israeli ‘dissident’ demolished
Haim Bresheeth-Zabner issues a wholesale fraud perpetrated on the public, one that encourages readers to believe statements about Israel and Zionism that are radically and demonstrably false.
Oct. 9, 2020
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