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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.

Jeremy Corbyn, former leader of the British Labour Party. Credit: Wikimedia Commons.
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Can Labour overcome anti-Semitism after Corbyn?
There are reasons to feel hopeful that the party may, in the near future, seek to rebuild the shattered trust of British Jews.
Dec. 16, 2019
Ben Cohen
French President Emmanuel Macron paying his respect to fallen French soldiers from World War I. Source: Emmanuel Macron via Twitter.
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Macron’s unsettling words: ‘Until our dead can sleep in peace’
Barely a year can pass, it seems, without some episode or incident in France that compels its ancient Jewish community to wonder whether they have a future there at all.
Dec. 6, 2019
Ben Cohen
EU flags
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Like schnitzel, anti-Semitism has become part of the cultural fabric of Europe
The three most common stereotypes neatly encapsulate the triangular denunciation of the Jews: They dominate the economy and financial markets; they are more loyal to the State of Israel than they are to the continent; and they talk endlessly of their suffering during the Holocaust.
Nov. 25, 2019
Ben Cohen
The site of the former Auschwitz concentration camp in Poland. A controversial new law passed by Poland's parliament is rooted in Polish resentment when Auschwitz and other Nazi German concentration camps are referred to as “Polish death camps.” Credit: Giraud Patrick via Wikimedia Commons.
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Truth is not selective: Poland vs. Netflix
When it comes to debating Holocaust collaboration, Poland will not settle for anything less than complete exoneration for its nation—a goal that doesn’t comport with the historical record.
Nov. 18, 2019
Ben Cohen
Argentina's newly election president Alberto Fernandez and Vice President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner. Source: Screenshot.
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A worrying signal from Argentina
A few weeks into the presidential term of Alberto Fernandez, concerns have been raised about the foreign policy he will pursue in the backdrop of terrorist elements in his country.
Nov. 12, 2019
Ben Cohen
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan. Credit: Wikimedia Commons.
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A Kurdish campaign to boycott Turkey
All that the Kurds have in common with the Palestinians in this regard is their method. Their moral foundations are radically different.
Nov. 5, 2019
Ben Cohen
A view of a parade float at the Carnival of Aalst in March 2019, featuring two Orthodox Jewish caricatures that were widely condemned as anti-Semitic. Source: Screenshot.
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Belgium’s carnival of hatred is still going strong
In recent years, organizers have had some fun by conjuring up the most horrendous stereotypes in the form of oversized puppets of Orthodox Jews complete with side curls and hooked noses.
Oct. 28, 2019
Ben Cohen
A neo-Nazi demonstration in Germany in 2008. Source: Screenshot.
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Germany’s rising far-right threat
If the neo-Nazi gunman in Halle hadn’t been prevented from entering the synagogue by its robust security system, Germany would have been confronted with the most atrocious act of anti-Semitism on its soil since the Nazi era.
Oct. 18, 2019
Ben Cohen
Kurdish Mahabad Republic leader Qazi Muhammad (middle), between 1946 and 1947. Credit: Wikimedia Commons.
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The Americans, the Kurds, the war
In the grand sweep of World War II history, Kurdish national aspirations have been little more than a footnote. With this latest incursion, it may stay that way.
Oct. 11, 2019
Ben Cohen
A photo of a 12-year-old Jewish boy in Australia being bullied to kiss the shoes of a Muslim classmate. Source: Twitter.
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The sorry tale of two photographs
The goal in both? To lampoon and disgrace those in the offensive images—one adult, the other a child—by way of their Jewishness.
Oct. 4, 2019
Ben Cohen
British Prime Minister Boris Johnson. Credit: Flickr.
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In Britain, Boris is opening the door for Jeremy
If the Labour Party leader becomes prime minister, it will unleash a chain reaction of condemnation from British Jews and cause agonized debate over whether Jews have a future in a land where their roots stretch back for more than a millennium.
Sep. 27, 2019
Ben Cohen
Robert Mugabe in 2008. Credit: U.S. Air Force Photo by Tech. Sgt. Jeremy Lock via Wikimedia Commons.
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Robert Mugabe: Death without justice
That Robert Mugabe died without ever having to answer for his crimes will come as a boost to the world’s remaining tyrannies, from the Islamic Republic of Iran to the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela.
Sep. 6, 2019
Ben Cohen
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