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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.

While the current crop of Western leaders is unlikely to heed the litany of anti-Jewish complaints by Catherine Connolly, she is set to be a major component of the global movement to isolate and weaken Israel.
If you are going to blame Jews for the current surge in antisemitism, particularly in an outlet serving the Christian community, it helps to have a Jewish author do so.
In adopting it, the world body became the main vehicle for the promotion of Jew-hatred, creating a bureaucratic apparatus designed to amplify the Arab and Palestinian campaign to eliminate Israel as a sovereign state.
For two years, Jews have been living with the consequences: insults, violence, injuries and deaths. I would say now is the time to fight back.
It unfolds over time—from the conditions necessary to halt the war to the reconstruction of what the text calls “New Gaza,” along with the deradicalization of its population.
He understands very well that the best way to blunt accusations of antisemitism is to assemble a group of Jewish sycophants around him.
A tradition of enmity towards Jews and Judaism goes back centuries.
The nation may have exited the European Union, but the continent’s oldest form of political and social poison did not depart alongside it.
Anti-Zionist ideology has crystallized as the dominant form of antisemitism in this century, with labor unions engaging it, and in some cases, propelling it.
Tehran’s record beyond Australia’s borders should have been enough to set off the alarm bells in Canberra.
The gallery of fools, morons and haters we have to contend with aren’t as dumb as they make themselves out to be.
The lack of attention, interest and empathy when it comes to other contemporary disasters are the collateral damage of the world’s fixation on “Palestine.”