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Rabbi Abraham Cooper

Rabbi Abraham Cooper

Rabbi Abraham Cooper is the associate dean and director of the Global Social Action Agenda of the Simon Wiesenthal Center.

Abetting the global campaign to demonize the Jewish state, the pontiff endangered the lives of Jews but got the Gazans no closer to “the day after.”
You do not understand that “two wrongs don’t make a right” is not the moral principle upon which we must stand when faced with genocidal terror.
With shared democratic values and tech-driven economies, there’s much to be gained by forming a strong alliance between Japan and Israel. However, if Japan sincerely wants to form such an alliance, its government must show that it shares the same values as Israel and the U.S.
An artistically talented armchair anti-Semite and the elites who run the paper defend an incendiary cartoon that shows an Israeli tank crushing Palestinian resistance, putting all blame for suffering in the Gaza Strip on the Jewish state.
New premier Yoshihide Suga has an opportunity to build on Shinzo Abe’s legacy, as well as make a few needed changes to the Asian nation’s Middle East policy.
Against this backdrop of apologies—real, faux and muted—the basketball star’s op-ed, “Where Is the Outrage Over Anti-Semitism in Sports and Hollywood?” ignited suppressed discussions that have largely gone unchallenged.
We cannot but wonder whether Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders knows that the Prophet Amos enjoined everyone, including “white Jewish men,” to “hate evil and love good and establish justice at the gate.”
A museum on anti-Semitism cannot ignore the fact that many experts consider its third-largest city, Malmö, to be the anti-Semitism capital of Europe, though it’s is not the only Swedish city with such a problem.
The battle for the hearts and minds of the critically important millennial generation is well under way.