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Simone Rodan-Benzaquen
Simone Rodan-Benzaquen
Simone Rodan-Benzaquen is managing director of American Jewish Committee (AJC) Europe.
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View of the destruction caused by Hamas terrorists on Oct. 7, 2023, in Kibbutz Kfar Aza, near the Israeli-Gaza border, in southern Israel, Nov. 2, 2023. Photo by Arie Leib Abrams/Flash90.
Peace now?
International discourse must stop disproportionately criticizing every Israeli action. Palestinians are not passive victims without agency.
Simone Rodan-Benzaquen
May 27, 2024
Ambassador Zahra Ershadi of Iran attends a U.N. Security Council meeting in New York called at Russia's request after the Islamic Republic's embassy compound in Syria was hit by missile, April 2, 2024. Credit: Lev Radin/Shutterstock.
Iran and the failure of diplomacy
Some policymakers still seem to believe that reasonableness can prevail in the face of a regime that feels more emboldened every day.
Simone Rodan-Benzaquen
April 22, 2024
A residential building damaged by Russian aircraft in the Ukrainian capital of Kyiv. Credit: Drop of Light/Shutterstock.
Is ‘Never Again’ an empty promise?
If we want the new generation to believe that the West—that liberal democracies—stand for immutable values, then don’t we have the moral obligation to do more?
Simone Rodan-Benzaquen
April 13, 2022
A rally against anti-Semitism in London in December 2019. Credit: Brian Minkoff/Shutterstock.
Anti-Semitism and anti-Zionism: Is America following in Europe’s footsteps?
It is timely to remember Alexis de Tocqueville’s warning about the tyranny of the majority as the reach of social media now places “truth” on the side with the seemingly higher numbers.
Simone Rodan-Benzaquen
May 28, 2021
French President Emmanuel Macron. Credit: Kremlin.ru via Wikimedia Commons.
Sarah Halimi, Sisyphus and the denial of anti-Semitic violence
Simone Rodan-Benzaquen
July 27, 2017
A plaque in Paris at a garden in memory of Ilan Halimi, a French Jew who was kidnapped and murdered in 2006. Credit: Poulpy via Wikimedia Commons.
Being Jewish in France today
Simone Rodan-Benzaquen
July 24, 2014