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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.

Bernard-Henri Lévy
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From Bosnia to the world: Bernard-Henri Lévy’s latest Jewish reflections
Lévy is not someone who believes in ideological purity over pragmatism. If the Jews are to thrive, he says, they must absorb what he says are two “golden rules” crystallized by Jewish history.
Nov. 9, 2018
Ben Cohen
Tree of Life Synagogue
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‘Anti-Semitism upholds white supremacy’
Above all, there was the sense that everyone here understood that anti-Semitism is a threat that needs to be taken seriously and confronted. That is a far cry from Europe.
Nov. 2, 2018
Ben Cohen
Robert Faurisson. Credit: Youtube screenshot.
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Robert Faurisson: The liar and his legacy
Demonizing Zionism and Israel was always a key aim of Holocaust-deniers like Robert Faurisson. Bear that in mind the next time you hear someone say that anti-Semitism might be bad, but anti-Zionism is something noble.
Oct. 26, 2018
Ben Cohen
Kristallnacht
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The connection between WWI armistice and WWII Kristallnacht
For Jews, the 80th anniversary of Kristallnacht and the centennial of the end of World War I are occasions for profound historical reflection, in a year that has already witnessed the 70th anniversary of the State of Israel’s creation.
Oct. 19, 2018
Ben Cohen
Different types of peer-reviewed research journals; these specific publications are about economics. Credit: Wikimedia Commons.
Featured Columnist
‘Our Struggle Is My Struggle’: The dangers of grievance studies
Increasingly, students are taught that the veracity of a particular claim cannot be separated from the identity of the person making it—and that suggesting otherwise is a surrender to patriarchy and racism.
Oct. 12, 2018
Ben Cohen
Yahya Sinwar, leader of Hamas in the Gaza Strip, Feb. 24, 2017. Photo by Abed Rahim Khatib/Flash90.
Featured Columnist
Yahya Sinwar explains how Hamas hasn’t changed
Every so often in the media, a report appears suggesting that Hamas might be willing to recognize Israel or denounce violence so as to discuss the establishment of a Palestinian state. But it never does.
Oct. 5, 2018
Ben Cohen
Netanyahu, UN
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Abbas and Netanyahu UN speeches signal that 30-year peace process is now dead
Abbas’s speech to the U.N. confirmed that the P.A. and the PLO are returning to their old game of undermining Israel’s legitimacy at every turn. Netanyahu’s speech demonstrated that while Israel is aware of the Palestinian retreat into maximalism, there are bigger problems that his country is facing
Sep. 28, 2018
Ben Cohen
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan. Credit: Wikimedia Commons.
Featured Columnist
Study abroad in Turkey, anyone?
Would University of Michigan Professor John Cheney-Lippold invoke the same principles of academic freedom and non-discrimination in the case of Turkey? I can find no record of him ever having spoken out against President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan.
Sep. 21, 2018
Ben Cohen
Kurdish Peshmerga fighters display their flag. Source: Flickr.
Opinion
Kurds remain first in Iran’s firing line
The sorry record of international betrayal of Kurdish aspirations dates back to the end of the World War I. Frankly, betrayal remains at the heart of U.S. policy.
Sep. 14, 2018
Ben Cohen
British Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn, May 12, 2017. Photo by Chatham House, London/Wikimedia Commons.
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Soviet anti-Semitism in a British guise
Given the number of occasions that British Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn publicly defended the Soviet regime, he was clearly well aware of Moscow’s stance on all the key international matters of the time, as well as its propaganda practices.
Sep. 7, 2018
Ben Cohen
Vanessa Redgrave in the 1977 Holocaust-drama film "Julia," for which she won the Best Supporting Actress Oscar. Credit: Flickr.
Opinion
Vanessa Redgrave: Still hating after all these years
Then, as now, the far-left in the West demonized Zionism as a form of racism, lionized Palestinian terrorists as revolutionary martyrs and adopted an anti-Semitic interpretation of international politics as a battle against “Zionism and imperialism.”
Aug. 31, 2018
Ben Cohen
Former Nazi labor-camp guard Jakiw Palij Credit: Department of Justice.
Opinion
New York’s ‘last Nazi’ is finally deported to Germany
Jakiw Palij may have been low down in the hierarchy, but he was present during “a daylong killing spree of unfathomable ruthlessness and horror,” when 6,000 Jewish women, men and children were massacred at Trawniki by the Germans and their local auxiliaries.
Aug. 24, 2018
Ben Cohen
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