Ben Cohen / JNS.org
ARTICLES BY: Ben Cohen / JNS.org
The Right to Exist
JNS.org - Liberal and left-wing adversaries of Israel indulge in an abiding fantasy that one day the Jewish state, which they falsely regard as an...
Just How Useful are the ‘Useful Idiots’?
JNS.org - Ever since political Zionism emerged at the end of the 19th century as a movement to create and sustain a Jewish state in...
A Fake Genocide Meets a Real One
JNS.org - For more than a year, Jews inside and outside the State of Israel have been besieged by false claims of the “genocide” of...
Welcome to ‘Paddystine’
JNS.org - The other day, during a discussion with a colleague about the wave of pro-Hamas, antisemitic hysteria sweeping the Republic of Ireland, I unthinkingly...
Turning Human Rights Upside Down
JNS.org - Two recent developments suggest that a concerted effort is underway to reframe the international human-rights architecture that emerged from World War II, by...
Winners and Losers in the Middle East: The Story So Far
JNS.org - After more than a year of bloody conflict in the Middle East sparked by the Hamas pogrom in Israel on Oct. 7, 2023,...
Amsterdamned: The Shame of Femke Halsema
JNS.org - In the arsenal of the antisemite, denial is a key weapon. Six million Jews were exterminated during the Holocaust? Didn’t happen. The Soviet...
Ukraine Is at War with Russia … and North Korea and Iran
JNS.org - Last week was clearly a week for making history. That observation isn’t primarily sparked by Donald Trump’s presidential election victory—he’s now the only...
What Would Matt Baldacci Do? The Collaborator Mentality Returns
JNS.org - Like many Jews of my generation, born during a period when antisemitism was largely depicted as a historical phenomenon and any manifestations were...
Guterres Embraces the Authoritarians
JNS.org - It’s often said about antisemitism that Jews are the canary in the coal mine: What starts with them won’t end with them, and...
War Fatigue Settles Among Palestinians
JNS.org - One year after the Hamas atrocities in southern Israel ignited a multi-front war between the Jewish state and Iran’s regional proxies, a discernible...
When It Comes to Iran’s Rulers, There Can Be No Dialogue
JNS.org - Two years have passed since the murder of Jina (“Mahsa”) Amini, a young Kurdish-Iranian woman, at the hands of the Islamic Republic of...
Israel Alone, Israel Unbowed
JNS.org - “He’s not supposed to fight back, he’s supposed to have thick skin/He’s supposed to lay down and die when his door is kicked...
Afghanistan and Gaza: Tragedy and Farce
JNS.org - Keen-eyed readers of this column will know that I am fond of occasionally quoting Karl Marx’s observation that history repeats itself, “the first...









