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ARTICLES BY: Ben Cohen / JNS.org
An Antisemitic, Totalitarian Wind Blows in Poland as Right-Wing Consolidates Power
JNS.org - I’ve known Rafal Pankowski, the Polish academic and campaigner against antisemitism and racism, for almost 20 years, but I don’t think I’ve heard...
America, Israel, and Original Sin
JNS.org - In one corner, you have the features of universal liberty: freedom of conscience, a free press, the right to own property, the right...
Nazi Headstones and Confederate Statues Should Be Treated the Same
JNS.org - The US Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) agreed recently to the removal of a small number of headstones in US military cemeteries that...
‘Get Your Knee Off Our Necks’: Jews and the New Civil-Rights Movement
JNS.org - Fighting racism doesn’t necessarily mean fighting antisemitism. Fighting racism can sometimes involve elements of antisemitism. And fighting antisemitism can sometimes lead to accusations...
Iran and Venezuela: The Unshakable Alliance
JNS.org - In terms of putting on a spectacle, the current crop of leaders in Iran and Venezuela are a pale imitation of the situation...
Suddenly, Human Rights Watch Discovers Antisemitism
JNS.org - The drumbeat of antisemitism has grown louder and more assured over the last two decades. Yet it’s only with the resurgence of far-right...
The Return of Populist Antisemitism
JNS.org - To the lexicon of new terminology introduced by the coronavirus pandemic, we can add the latest entry: “Zoombombing,” or the practice of hijacking...
China’s Hallowed Status at the United Nations Human Rights Council
JNS.org - If you are looking for an international institution that brazenly fawns over the world’s most despotic regimes regardless of how low they might...
Jeremy Corbyn in Historical Perspective
JNS.org - The era of Jeremy Corbyn’s leadership of the opposition Labour Party in the United Kingdom mercifully came to an end last week, with...
Lies, Transparency, and Pandemics
JNS.org - Has the world ever been this perfectly synchronized? Whether you wake up in an isolated hamlet in one part of the globe or...
‘Rebranding’ BDS on the African Continent
JNS.org - The BDS movement, whose goal is for rest of the world to quarantine the State of Israel as though it were the coronavirus,...
What’s Changed Since the ‘Black Death’?
JNS.org - The numbers are rolling in, and they make for grim reading. In four European countries with significant Jewish communities -- France, Germany, the...
The Vatican Opens Its Wartime Archive
JNS.org - One of the most persistent and controversial debates about the history of World War II concerns the role of the Catholic Church during...
J’Accuse! Our Dreyfus and Theirs
JNS.org - Two months after its shellacking in the United Kingdom’s general elections, the Labour Party continues to remind British voters of why they chose...
