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ARTICLES BY: Ben Cohen / JNS.org
Antisemitic or Just ‘Strident’?
JNS.org - There is a curious sentence that appears in the definition of antisemitism currently being tested by a group of progressive Jewish Americans. It...
South Africa’s Chief Justice Confronts the Apartheid Analogy
JNS.org - As of this writing, South Africa’s Chief Justice Mogoeng Mogoeng was on day seven of a 10-day deadline to publicly apologize for a...
History, the Holocaust, and Hatred in Turkey’s School Textbooks
JNS.org - Time and again, the Middle East has taught us that whatever political problems or challenges a given regime may be facing, it always...
Remembering Manfred Gerstenfeld: Truth Against Myth
JNS.org - There is an acerbic joke that you sometimes hear in the Netherlands to the effect that most Dutch people were part of the...
Engaging With the UN Human Rights Council
JNS.org - Many people who have never heard of the UN Human Rights Council (UNHRC) might reasonably ask why this body has the name that...
The Historical Problem With Poland
JNS.org - The International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA) launched a new website last month titled “Protect the Facts” for the purpose of addressing Holocaust “distortion.” “Distortion”...
Joe Biden, Anne Neuberger, and Dual Loyalty
JNS.org - Lost amid the whirlwind of anger, violence, and recrimination that followed the November 2020 presidential election in the United States was the singular...
‘Freedom for Humanity’: A Cautionary Tale of Antisemitism
JNS.org - What follows here is a story about a politician from the extreme left, a politician from the far-right, and a painting replete with...
‘Your Suffering Is Our Pleasure’: The Anti-Zionist Glee at Sheldon Adelson’s Death
JNS.org - When the former Conservative British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher died in 2013, there were some on the left who regarded her passing as...
Donald Trump: The Un-American President
JNS.org - Move over, James Buchanan. The 15th president of the United States of America is regularly ranked by historians as the worst-ever holder of...
A Tale of Two Trials
JNS.org - As 2020 reached its end, so did two of the most important courtroom trials involving violent antisemitism to have occurred since the Second...
European Hypocrisy Laid Bare in Kosher-Slaughter Legal Judgement
JNS.org - Last time I checked, the French were still preparing their famed foie gras delicacy using the method of “gavage.” This involves force-feeding a...
Biden Faces the Iran-Venezuela Alliance
JNS.org - President Donald Trump will leave office with the regimes in Venezuela and Iran far weaker in structural terms than when he arrived. That...
The Declining Credibility of Palestinian Objections to the IHRA Definition of Antisemitism
JNS.org - A group of Palestinian and Arab intellectuals, 122 in all, endorsed a statement last week published by The Guardian newspaper that attacked the...
