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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.

A key takeaway: Nations should no longer feel that Middle East foreign policy is to be determined solely by the Palestinian agenda.
Over decades, Iran proved itself adept at fertilizing the lies that reside at the heart of anti-Zionist ideology, turning them into common-sense notions among adherents.
There will always be those who say that politics has no place in sports. The reality is that it does, whether we like it or not.
To place the Jewish state in the same category as a monstrous regime like the Islamic Republic is to enter a morally inverted world.
For French Jews, the largest of Western Europe’s Jewish communities, the threat posed by the extremes has always been palpable.
Moshe Aryeh Friedman has long taken advantage of Europe’s pre-existing suspicions around traditional religious practices and the law to level defamatory claims, enticing media buy-in.
The coastal enclave does not exist in a vacuum; it is one node, albeit a vital one, in a network of extremism and terrorism that runs across the region.
Advocates are less careful, compared to their antecedents, about distinguishing between Jews and Israelis, and utterly disinterested, to the point of contempt, when it comes to the various divides within Israeli society.
International Holocaust Memorial Day cannot be uncomplicatedly marked in the way that it is intended: as a commemoration of the Nazi slaughter of 6 million Jews for the sole reason that they were Jews.
There is truly a historic opportunity at work, based on the civilian protest movement. The world should not squander it.
The burgeoning relationship between Somaliland proves that the Jewish state is not hated and isolated in the region, despite the neighboring cluster of authoritarian states insisting otherwise.
What members of this violent organization hunger for are extreme measures that make waves against Israel and make headlines worldwide.