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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.

He has lent his imprimatur to one of the worst antisemitic blood libels to emerge from the halls of the United Nations—and there have been many.
Everyone, it seems, has heard of Rafah, but few people know about what is happening in Burma, the East Asian country renamed “Myanmar” following a military coup in 1989.
If it does, then Israel will be more reliant on Germany, Italy, Greece and the Eastern European states to fight its corner within the European Union, its largest trading partner.
“It is this movement,” according to a British report on political extremism, “that has proven most willing to use law breaking, intimidation, and at times, violence.”
They may be separated by seven centuries, but a commonality is clearly apparent when it comes to the Jewish people.
What aspects of the surge in hatred would have convinced a besieged Jewish community that the leader of the free world is not just an ally, but someone who fundamentally grasps the nature of contemporary threats?
The world’s authoritarians are delighting in the opportunity to wield the language of human rights in the faces of gullible Westerners.
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.