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Ben Cohen

Featured Columnist

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.

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Column
God bless America
No question, we have a fight on our hands here. Yet it is one we enter into armed with hope.
July 3, 2026
Ben Cohen
Supporters of newly elected New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani celebrate his victory during a rally in Brooklyn, N.Y., Nov. 4, 2025. Photo by Liri Agami/Flash90.
Global Focus
Moral masochism and New York’s Jews
It may be that left-wingers feel that by joining in with the “genocide” rhetoric, they are creating the conditions for a Jewish communal life dissociated from Zionism and Israel that will be respected by their non-Jewish comrades.
June 26, 2026
Ben Cohen
Part of an Iranian ballistic missile lodged in the desert near Vered Yeriho, near the Jordan Valley, after being fired toward Israel, June 8, 2026. Photo by Chaim Goldberg/Flash90.
Global Focus
Make no mistake: A peace deal with Tehran is a blow to Jewish security worldwide
Communities around the world face a deluge of propaganda that will inevitably result in more incidents of violence.
June 19, 2026
Ben Cohen
United Nations Security Council UNSC
Global Focus
The UN’s fatal formula for the Israeli-Palestinian conflict
If this issue is seen as the anchor of the region’s broader woes, that is not because the cold data bears it out, but because much of the world has been swayed by a decades-long propaganda effort initiated by the Soviet Union and its Arab allies.
June 12, 2026
Ben Cohen
Smoke rises from Southern Lebanon during an Israeli military operation, May 28, 2026. Photo by Ayal Margolin/Flash90.
Column: Global Focus
War and peace in Lebanon
What’s needed is an unprecedented combination of political courage and military determination to bring the country into a post-Hezbollah era, and to instill calm and stability on Israel’s northern border.
May 29, 2026
Ben Cohen
People participate in an “Anti-Zionism=Terrorism” protest, organized by the pressure group Stop the Hate in Golders Green, following the stabbing of two people in the North London residential area on April 29, 2026. Photo by Carl Court/Getty Images.
Column: Global Focus
Confronting the poison of anti-Zionism
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.
May 21, 2026
Ben Cohen
Holocaust survivor Abraham Foxman, former national director of the Anti-Defamation League, at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum's annual “Days of Remembrance” ceremony, held at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C., April 23, 2025. Photo by Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images.
Column: Global Focus
Abe Foxman and the luxury of pessimism
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.
May 15, 2026
Ben Cohen
Palestinians walk through rainwater flooding the courtyards of Nasser Hospital in Khan Yunis, in the southern Gaza Strip, on March 26, 2026. Photo by Abed Rahim Khatib/Flash90.
Column: GLOBAL FOCUS
Gaza, again?
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.
May 8, 2026
Ben Cohen
Starmer Golders Green attack
Column: Global Focus
London stabbings shine light on Hamas’s success
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.
May 1, 2026
Ben Cohen
Empty tables at an outdoor restaurant. Credit: mariya_m/Pixabay.
Column: GLOBAL FOCUS
‘Boom, Boom Tel Aviv’: Anti-Zionist harassment goes into overdrive
Israeli tourists were targeted while dining in Vietnam, harassed by British-accented women obscenely screeching abuse.
April 24, 2026
Ben Cohen
Two men stand on the balconies of a damaged apartment building following a Russian strike in Kyiv on April 16, 2026. Massive Russian strikes on Ukraine left at least 19 people dead overnight from April 15 to April 16, particularly in Kyiv and Odessa, Ukrainian authorities said on April 16, 2026. Photo by Tetiana Dzhafarova/AFP via Getty Images.
Column: GLOBAL FOCUS
Of all places leading the way against antisemitism, look to Ukraine
Volodymyr Zelenskyy, the country’s Jewish president, signed new legislation combating antisemitism, passed by an overwhelming majority of the country’s parliament.
April 17, 2026
Ben Cohen
Flag of Chile. Credit: David_Peterson/Pixabay.
Column: GLOBAL FOCUS
Ecuador departs and Chile arrives at the UN’s Palestinian Rights Committee
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.
April 10, 2026
Ben Cohen