Ben Cohen / JNS.org
ARTICLES BY: Ben Cohen / JNS.org
Fabricating Antisemitism: The Case of Gil Ofarim
JNS.org - Back in October, I wrote about the strange case of Gil Ofarim, a popular German Jewish singer who leveled a charge of antisemitic...
America Has to Remain a Leader in the Fight Against Antisemitism
JNS.org - In a departing interview with the Jewish Telegraphic Agency in October 2012, Hannah Rosenthal — on her final day as the US State...
From Israel to Ukraine, Self-Reliance Is Key
JNS.org - “The unrestrained assault by ___ military, police and paramilitary forces, under the direction of President ___, on ___ civilians has created a massive...
French Politicians Call Time on Anti-Zionist Provocation
JNS.org - Palestine solidarity activists have found themselves a new hate figure in the person of Gérald Darmanin, the interior minister of France. Darmanin announced last...
The Delegitimization Campaigns Targeting Israel and Ukraine
JNS.org - Attempting to refute the spreading claim that Russian soldiers wounded in Ukraine were receiving only $100 in compensation (the official line is that...
On Putin, the Jews and the Future of the World
JNS.org - Jews and dictators normally don’t get along. History is replete with examples of strongmen who reviled the Jewish communities in their midst. Many...
We Need to Step Up the Fight Against Anti-Asian Hatred in America
JNS.org – On a recent evening, I was traveling on the New York subway in a car that was empty except for me, a woman...
The Israeli Left’s Antisemitism Blind Spot
JNS.org - A great scholar of antisemitism once told me that there was one country that frustrated him when it came to its understanding of...
A ‘Palestine-Firster’ Scandal Comes to the US Congress
JNS.org - During Barack Obama’s presidency, when diplomatic tensions between Israel and the United States sank to rarely seen lows, the term “Israel-Firster” was concocted...
What the Row Over Caricatures of Yasser Arafat Tells Us About Palestinian Politics
JNS.org - A perennial discussion in the cauldron that is Middle Eastern politics concerns the degree to which a sovereign Palestinian state, should one ever...
Iranian AMIA Fugitive Is Feted by Latin America’s Far-Left
JNS.org - The embrace between the authoritarian left in Latin America and the Islamist regime in Iran is as tight as ever, as evidenced at...
Russia and China’s War on the Past
JNS.org - Nearly 80 years after it was first published, and more than 30 years after its muse, the Soviet Union, disappeared from the political...
2021: Past, Present and Future
JNS.org - Looking back at 2021 in the hope of having something sensible to say about the past year, I found myself musing on a...
The Perils of Broadcasting in Arabic
JNS.org – It’s been a lousy week for the taxpayer-funded German public broadcaster Deutsche Welle (DW), bookended by no less than two antisemitism scandals involving...
