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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.

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
Sept. 28, 2018
Ben Cohen
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan. Credit: Wikimedia Commons.
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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.
Sept. 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.
Sept. 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.
Sept. 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
British Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn. Credit: Garry Knight via Wikimedia Commons.
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How to misread anti-Semitism
One might counter that not everyone who presents Israel as a “racist endeavor” is driven by the same motives—strategic, diplomatic, ideological—that the USSR was when it adopted anti-Semitism in the name of anti-Zionism.
Aug. 17, 2018
Ben Cohen
British Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn, May 12, 2017. Photo by Chatham House, London/Wikimedia Commons.
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Jeremy Corbyn’s ‘existential threat’
The fear that he has normalized anti-Semitism in the Labour Party, coupled with unwavering loyalty to the Palestine solidarity activists who have dragged Labour into the mire of Jew-baiting, leads many to conclude that what has already happened in the party will unfold next in the country.
July 27, 2018
Ben Cohen
Sarah Halimi. Credit: Confédération des Juifs de France et des amis d'Israël.
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France’s reputation is at stake again over the murder of Sarah Halimi
France’s leaders should expect to undergo the trial of international public scrutiny if this sadistic, anti-Semitic killer is sent to a psychiatric hospital instead of answering for his crimes.
July 19, 2018
Ben Cohen
Irish Senator Frances Black speaking in favor of her bill to boycott goods from Israeli settlements. Credit: Screenshot.
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The Irish Senate’s ‘boycott Israel’ debate
The country that will be most damaged will be Ireland itself. See how many Irish politicians are willing to sacrifice the jobs and livelihoods of Irish citizens for the gesture politics of boycotting Israel.
July 13, 2018
Ben Cohen
The Grand Mosque of Copenhagen in Copenhagen is one of the largest mosques in Denmark. Credit: Wikimedia Commons.
Featured Columnist
Denmark confronts Islamism and integration
For much of this decade, Jewish residents in the country have endured anti-Semitic attacks and abuse wildly out of proportion to their numbers. Most of that hostility comes from the Muslim community.
July 6, 2018
Ben Cohen
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