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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.

The nationwide protests are a direct challenge to the legitimacy of the Islamic Republic, as evidenced in slogans chanted by demonstrators.
By promoting the deceit that Netanyahu had reversed his long-held position in favor of a two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, the White House made sure that its vendetta against the prime minister was leapt on once more by media outlets that have garnered an enormous amount of fun from reporting the troughs and peaks of the Obama-Netanyahu relationship.
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan during the general debate of the United Nations General Assembly on Sept. 20, 2016. Credit: U.N. Photo/Cia Pak.
Don’t forget Qatar and Turkey
A protest in Buenos Aires marked the one-year anniversary of the death of Alberto Nisman, the Argentinian federal prosecutor who was investigating the AMIA Jewish center bombing, January 2016. Credit: Wikimedia Commons.
In decades-long AMIA Jewish center affair, the truth will come out
Robert Mugabe, the president of Zimbabwe, addresses the United Nations General Assembly on Sept. 21, 2017. Credit: U.N. Photo/Cia Pak.
The ultimate victory of an African tyrant
lenin
Hopes betrayed: the Russian Revolution and the Jews
Kurdish President Masoud Barzani. Credit: Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff via Wikimedia Commons.
Iran’s war, America’s shame, in Kurdistan
“Today, the Iranian regime’s intentions are no different than before”
So central is the Balfour Declaration to Palestinian political identity that the “Zionist invasion” is officially deemed to have begun in 1917
Lord Arthur Balfour
Year zero: the Palestinians and the Balfour Declaration