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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.

Nicholas Murray Butler’s spirit lives on—in both the approach of the current appeasing, spineless and incompetent administration, and in the fetid antisemitic beliefs of the student protesters.
The bitter irony is that it is the country’s far-left leadership, aligned with the dictatorships in Venezuela and Cuba, that should be in the dock.
Reading through restaurant reviews, I didn’t think (because there was no reason to) that the Gaza war would show up, but it did.
Its purpose is to project, gently but firmly, Germany’s core values and the need for prospective citizens to conform to those values.
But only one seems to capture the world’s attention through a constant stream of media coverage, increasingly violent demonstrations and hand-wringing by elected officials worried about losing votes.
When it collides with antisemitism, it’s anything but an accident.
Extreme violence against Jewish women were a part of Hamas’s strategy that Black Shabbat, as necessary for the fulfilment of their aims as the murders and other atrocities.
Our elected leaders—in the United States, in Europe and elsewhere—have failed us.
In the case of Brazil’s president, it is especially insidious since it mocks the victimhood of the Jews by casting them as no different from their murderers.
When it comes to antisemitism, the United Kingdom is very much part of the European rule.
A far-left French conundrum: It’s hard to understand how someone could be moved by the cries of a frail, elderly Jewish woman in police custody, yet dismiss the horrors of Oct. 7.
Politicians who sympathize with the plight of their Jewish constituents are examining legal means to stem the flow of antisemitic tropes.