More
EN
Newsletter
More
Newsletter
EN
Support JNS
Ben Cohen. Credit: Courtesy.

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.

Jonathan Spyer speaking at a Jerusalem Institute for Strategic Studies lecture in March 2019. Source: Screenshot.
Featured Columnist
Lift the US ban on journalist Jonathan Spyer
How on earth did a citizen of two close American allies—and a resident of Israel who has frequently traveled to this country for professional and family reasons—end up on the same blacklist as members of Hezbollah, the Population Front for the Liberation of Palestine and the Russian Imperial Movement?
Oct. 2, 2020
Ben Cohen
British Labour Party leader Keir Starmer, Feb. 1, 2020. Credit: Rwendland via Wikimedia Commons.
Featured Columnist
UK Labour leader Keir Starmer is drawing a line under the Corbyn years
His record so far is worthy of analysis, not least because he bucks the global political trend by being both a resolute centrist and a professional politician who has delivered on some of his promises.
Sep. 25, 2020
Ben Cohen
Freeze Corleone. Source: Screenshot.
Featured Columnist
The Holocaust vs. the rest: A new threat
A debut studio album in France by rapper Freeze Corleone is steeped in anti-Semitism, hatred of Israel, Holocaust denial, QAnon-style accusations of pedophilia against French politicians and constant references to the Rothschilds.
Sep. 18, 2020
Ben Cohen
Ahlam Tamimi
Featured Columnist
Jordan is harboring brutal terrorists wanted by France and America
Had the terrorists targeted non-kosher establishments with non-Jewish victims, Amman would likely have been cooperative.
Sep. 11, 2020
Ben Cohen
Jewish Ghetto Police guarding the gates of the Warsaw Ghetto, June 1942. Credit: German Federal Archives via Wikimedia Commons.
Featured Columnist
Social distancing in the Warsaw Ghetto
Confronted with death from all quarters and in all forms—if not typhus, starvation; if not starvation, being shot; if not being shot, deportation—Jews made a conscious decision to choose life.
Sep. 4, 2020
Ben Cohen
Protesters in Berlin hold a Palestinian flag and the initials of the anti-Israel BDS movement while then-Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was visiting Germany in August 2019. Credit: Israel Hayom.
Featured Columnist
Germany’s lessons for BDS
The discussion of Israel in Germany has historically been filtered through the experience of the Holocaust, which perhaps makes Germans more sensitive to the rising anti-Semitism around them.
Aug. 28, 2020
Ben Cohen
Belarus President Alexander Lukashenko. Credit: Wikimedia Commons.
Featured Columnist
Lukashenko’s iron fist in Belarus
The oligarch could be removed through an internal coup as opposed to losing his power in a free and fair election, an option far preferable for President Vladimir Putin, who is actively watching the situation.
Aug. 21, 2020
Ben Cohen
Sadat, Begin
Featured Columnist
Rejecting the rejectionists
In a year that all of us will remember for its unmitigated misery, the accord between Israel and the UAE is a reminder that human beings have the capacity to resolve conflicts, not just initiate them.
Aug. 14, 2020
Ben Cohen
Philadelphia NAACP president Rodney Muhammad. Source: Screenshot.
Featured Columnist
NAACP’s failure to deal with Rodney Muhammad’s anti-Semitism
Whether the national leadership likes it or not, their point man in Philadelphia has embraced a view of the Jewish people that would sit happily with any and every white supremacist.
Aug. 7, 2020
Ben Cohen
Stephan Balliet, the neo-Nazi who attempted to mount an armed attack on a synagogue in the city of Halle, Germany, during Yom Kippur 2019. Source: Screenshot.
Featured Columnist
The lonely, angry anti-Semite
We know that there are those who are perversely reinforced in their worldviews when they encounter Jews (or those they perceived as Jews) speaking about the Holocaust, or the evils of racism, or the difficulties faced by immigrants in their host societies.
Jul. 31, 2020
Ben Cohen
U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo delivers a speech on “Communist China and the Free World’s Future” at the Richard Nixon Presidential Library in Yorba Linda, Calif., on July 23, 2020. Credit: State Department Photo by Ron Przysucha.
Featured Columnist
The United States shifts its approach to China
U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo’s shift in thinking won’t stop the atrocities in Xinjiang this week or next, but it does send an unmistakable message to Beijing that American leaders have finally wised up.
Jul. 24, 2020
Ben Cohen
Andrzej Duda speaks in the town of Lubartów during the 2015 Polish presidential election campaign, March 31, 2015. Credit: Radosław Czarnecki via Wikimedia Commons.
Featured Columnist
A chill wind from Poland
The legacy of two forms of totalitarianism—Nazism and communism—continue to impact Poland, alongside its long, grim tradition of domestic anti-Semitism.
Jul. 17, 2020
Ben Cohen
Load More