Ben Cohen
ARTICLES BY: Ben Cohen
Amid Rising Hate Crimes Against Jews, EU Announces $2 Billion ‘Comprehensive Strategy’ to Counter Antisemitism and Intolerance
A "comprehensive strategy" to combat antisemitism was unveiled by the European Union on Tuesday as part of a broader program to counter rising racism and...
French President Macron Seeks to Reassure Angry, Disappointed Jewish Community After Top Court Decides Against Trial of Accused Antisemitic Killer
French President Emmanuel Macron has called for a change in his country's laws on criminal responsibility, following last week's decision by France's highest appeal court...
Appointment of Hardline Nationalist to Auschwitz Museum Council Intensifies Fears Over Polish Government’s Holocaust Commemoration Policies
The appointment of a hardline nationalist politician to the Polish government's advisory council for the Auschwitz concentration camp triggered the resignations of three experts on...
‘Now We Can Torture and Kill Jews With Impunity’: Fury Among French Jews as Top Appeal Court Rejects Criminal Trial for Killer of Sarah Halimi
The family of Sarah Halimi — the French Jewish woman brutally murdered in her Paris apartment by an intruder who bellowed antisemitic slogans as he...
Revealed: Desperate Plight of French-Jewish Gay Man Incarcerated in Turkish Jail, Harassed and Beaten by Jihadi Prisoners
Lawyers for a French Jewish gay man imprisoned in Turkey on drugs charges are making his plight public more than three years after he was...
Director of Warsaw Jewish Museum Calls on Polish Catholic University to Take Action Against ‘Blood Libel’ Priest
The director of the widely-celebrated, multi-million dollar museum of Jewish life in Warsaw has denounced Poland's leading Catholic university for failing to discipline a professor...
Outrage as South African BDS Advocate Tells Students, ‘Hitler Committed No Crime’
A prominent South African supporter of the "Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions" campaign that opposes the legitimacy of the State of Israel is under investigation by...
Coronavirus Pandemic Brought ‘Vicious and Outrageous’ Antisemitic Discourse to the Fore in 2020, New Tel Aviv University Report Concludes
A dip in acts of physical and verbal aggression towards Jews worldwide during the COVID-19 lockdowns of 2020 was exceeded by the "skyrocketing" spread of...
Danish Neo-Nazis Violate Jewish Cemetery With Passover Outrage Pushing Antisemitic ‘Blood Libel’
A chilling spectacle of children's dolls splashed with fake blood alongside dozens of flyers promoting the infamous antisemitic "blood libel" was discovered at a Jewish...
Lawyers for Neo-Nazi Gunman Behind Pittsburgh Synagogue Massacre Try New Maneuver to Avoid Death Penalty
Lawyers acting for Robert Bowers — the neo-Nazi gunman who murdered 11 worshipers at Pittsburgh's Tree of Life Synagogue — have requested access to prosecutors...
Kentucky Governor Leads Condemnation of Libertarian Party’s Comparison of ‘Vaccine Passports’ With Nazi Persecution of Jews
Kentucky's governor has slammed the state's third-largest political party for comparing proposed COVID-19 "vaccine passports" to the yellow star badges that the Nazi regime compelled...
Former Celebrity Chef Turned Antisemitic Agitator Flees to Turkey to Escape German Arrest Warrant
A former celebrity chef who turned into one of Germany's most vocal antisemitic agitators has fled to Turkey to escape an arrest warrant issued by...
Mobilized by Yom Kippur Shooting Outrage, German Teenagers in City of Halle Tackle Antisemitism Past and Present
Eighteen months on from the attempted Yom Kippur massacre at a synagogue in the German city of Halle that claimed the lives of two victims,...
French City of Strasbourg, Scarred by Anti-Jewish Outrages, Rejects IHRA Definition of Antisemitism at Council Meeting
Council members in the French city of Strasbourg voted this week to reject an internationally-accepted definition of antisemitism adopted by dozens of governments and municipalities...
