Ben Cohen
ARTICLES BY: Ben Cohen
French Senator Takes Aim at Legal Protection for ‘Murderous Predators’ as Anger Over Sarah Halimi Trial Decision Persists
A prominent French senator announced her intention this week to fundamentally revise her country's laws on criminal responsibility, following last month's decision by prosecutors in...
Anger in Warsaw as Russia’s Putin Slated to Speak at Auschwitz Commemoration in Jerusalem, But Not Poland’s Duda
A new controversy between Israel and Poland over the commemoration of the Nazi Holocaust was ignited on Tuesday as it emerged that the Polish president,...
‘No Evidence It Was a Murder’: Argentine President Fernandez Reverses Position on Killing of AMIA Bombing Investigator Alberto Nisman
Argentina's recently-elected president questioned on Wednesday the "scientific rigor" behind a 2017 police investigation which concluded that Alberto Nisman -- the late federal prosecutor investigating...
France’s Chief Rabbi Fears Sarah Halimi Murder Trial Decision Amounts to ‘License to Kill Jews’
France's chief rabbi has slammed the "tragic" and "grotesque" decision of Paris prosecutors to excuse from trial the alleged antisemitic murderer of Sarah Halimi --...
Polish Catholic Church Urged by US Jewish Leader to Back Removal of Antisemitic Images From Retail Outlets
The decision by Europe's largest home-improvements retailer to nix a range of home decorations that played on antisemitic stereotypes from sale in its Polish outlets...
Amid Fury Over Sarah Halimi Murder Trial Decision, French Jewish Leader Questions Judicial Willingness to Confront Islamist Antisemitism
The head of the French Jewish community on Monday expressed fear that last week's decision by prosecutors in Paris to excuse the murderer of a...
French Jews Express ‘Dismay’ and ‘Indignation’ as Accused Antisemitic Killer of Sarah Halimi Evades Criminal Trial
The murderer of an elderly Jewish woman in her Paris apartment in April 2017 was excused a criminal trial by French prosecutors on Thursday, on...
‘Call Out Antisemitism Early and Aggressively,’ Urges Jersey City Mayor Steven Fulop in Wake of Deadly Kosher Market Shooting
A little more than a week after the furious gun battle in Jersey City that claimed the lives of a police officer along with three...
Far-Right Leader and Former Priest Who Called Jews a ‘Cancer’ Arrested by Polish Authorities
A former Catholic priest has been detained by the authorities in Poland for publishing an antisemitic manifesto that prosecutors say violates the country's penal code...
White House Says Antisemitic Website ‘Not Credentialed’ for Media Coverage as Congress Members Deliver Letter of Protest
The White House said on Tuesday that the white supremacist website TruNews was not credentialed to cover press events at the Executive Mansion -- hours...
Israeli Student Badly Beaten on Paris Metro by ‘Antisemitic, Anti-Zionist’ Assailant
An Israeli student is recovering in a French hospital after he was brutally beaten up on the Paris subway by a man who overheard him...
As German Rapper Slammed for Antisemitic Lyrics Starts National Concert Tour, Jewish Leaders Sound Alarm
The German rapper Kollegah -- whose lyrics have mocked Jewish inmates of the Auschwitz concentration camp and urged a second Holocaust -- was in the...
‘You Will Not Erase Our Memory or Our Identity,’ French Rabbi Declares Following Antisemitic Cemetery Desecration
A leading French rabbi declared on Wednesday that the Jewish community would not be intimidated by the desecration with swastikas and other Nazi symbols of...
French Lawmakers Adopt Definition of Antisemitism That Includes Anti-Zionism
The French parliament approved on Tuesday a resolution that recognizes and condemns anti-Zionism as a form of antisemitism. Deputies in the National Assembly voted 154 to...
