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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.

Maureen Galindo, a Texas Democrat running for Congress, is not an outlier. She is a faithful representative of the monstrosity that this scourge has become.
The responsibility now falls on us and future generations to carry out the research, craft the messages and build the alliances that will overcome this current, terrible moment.
As long as there is a gap between restating the entirely legitimate goal of dismantling Hamas and achieving it, there will be a list of questions without ready answers.
Like other countries where anti-Jewish and anti-Israel outrages have reached epidemic proportions, the British public has remained fairly silent in the face of an upsurge in Jew-hatred.
Israeli tourists were targeted while dining in Vietnam, harassed by British-accented women obscenely screeching abuse.
Volodymyr Zelenskyy, the country’s Jewish president, signed new legislation combating antisemitism, passed by an overwhelming majority of the country’s parliament.
Throughout more than 50 years of existence, the agency has embodied the spirit and the letter of Resolution 3379 that defamed Zionism, even though the General Assembly rescinded it in 1991.
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.