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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.

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
Ben Cohen
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
Ben Cohen
Jonathan Spyer speaking at a Jerusalem Institute for Strategic Studies lecture in March 2019. Source: Screenshot.
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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.
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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.
Sept. 25, 2020
Ben Cohen
Freeze Corleone. Source: Screenshot.
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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.
Sept. 18, 2020
Ben Cohen
Ahlam Tamimi
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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.
Sept. 11, 2020
Ben Cohen
Jewish Ghetto Police guarding the gates of the Warsaw Ghetto, June 1942. Credit: German Federal Archives via Wikimedia Commons.
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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.
Sept. 4, 2020
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