Ben Cohen / JNS.org
ARTICLES BY: Ben Cohen / JNS.org
In a ‘Judas’ Effigy in Poland, a Deadly Antisemitic Trope Persists
JNS.org - When I worked for the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) more than a decade ago, relations between the Polish government and the Jewish community worldwide...
Passover: When Jews Stepped Into History on Our Terms
JNS.org - In his important book Power and Powerlessness in Jewish History, the historian David Biale noted that the very first ancient Egyptian reference to...
Assange’s Antisemitism Revisited
JNS.org - When the fugitive WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange first holed up in the Ecuadorean embassy in London seven years ago, “Brexit” was an unknown...
In South Africa, One Step Forward, Two Steps Back
JNS.org - “Not as much as we had hoped, but we have advanced nonetheless!” With these words, the “Palestine Solidarity Forum” of South Africa last...
‘Institutionally Antisemitic’: The British Labour Party’s Cautionary Tale
JNS.org - There is, in Britain, a long tradition of holding public inquiries to establish the facts and learn the appropriate lessons from a host...
Sarah Halimi’s Antisemitic Murderer Disappears Behind a Smokescreen
JNS.org - During the prosecution of Jared Lee Loughner -- the shooter sentenced to life imprisonment for the January 2011 murder of six people and...
The Christchurch Mosque Massacre and the Changing Face of Extremism
JNS.org - By the time that America woke up on Friday, March 15, Google’s search engine was jammed with news of a mass shooting at...
Leave the Graves of Jedwabne Alone
JNS.org -"Who controls the past controls the future: who controls the present controls the past.” These words, from George Orwell’s famous novel 1984 were often...
25 Years After the AMIA Bombing, Justice Is Again Denied
JNS.org - This July, Argentina’s Jewish community will mark the 25th anniversary of the bombing of the AMIA Jewish Center in Buenos Aires, in which...
‘Anti-Zionism’ Without the Hyphen
JNS.org - To hyphenate or not to hyphenate? One of the more enduring debates among scholars of antisemitism is whether to include a hyphen in the...
‘What Must Be Said:’ An Enduring Antisemitic Trope
JNS.org - When the late German writer Günter Grass decided, seven years ago, to publicly denounce Israel as the greatest threat to the planet’s existence,...
Antisemitism and the ‘Visible’ Jews
JNS.org - One evening about 30 years ago, my girlfriend, who is now my wife, came home to our small flat in London, her eyes...
Behind Europe’s Antisemitism ‘Perception Gap’
JNS.org - A comprehensive survey of European attitudes to antisemitism released this month by the European Union displays what its authors call a “perception gap.”...
Know Your Enemy: Jeremy Corbyn’s Brexit Test
JNS.org - They used to call them “pea-soupers”: dense, choking fogs caused by smoke from burning coal that frequently enveloped London until the middle of...
