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ARTICLES BY: Ben Cohen / JNS.org
Abbas and Netanyahu UN Speeches Signal the 30-Year Peace Process Is Dead
JNS.org - There was one corner of New York City last Thursday where the Senate Judicial Committee hearings into the accusations against Supreme Court nominee Brett...
Study Abroad in Turkey, Anyone?
JNS.org - Earlier this month, the Turkish NBA star Enes Kanter published a moving article in Time magazine about how President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s mushrooming...
Kurds Remain First in Iran’s Firing Line
JNS.org - The Iranian regime is defying the newly found US resolve to counter its malign influence with whatever means it has at its disposal. On...
Soviet Antisemitism in a British Guise
JNS.org - It’s back. The “it” I refer to is a phenomenon pretty much unknown to newer generations of Jews in terms of direct experience, but it...
Vanessa Redgrave: Still Hating After All These Years
JNS.org - The spectacle of thespians making political interventions is rarely a dignified one. But that hasn’t stopped Hollywood’s elite from radical posturing. From the old...
New York’s ‘Last Nazi’ Is Finally Deported to Germany
JNS.org - During my formal interview for US citizenship, not so long ago, I remember the interviewing officer looking me in the eye and asking...
How to Misread Antisemitism
JNS.org - In all the furor around the antisemitism plaguing the British Labour Party, I’ve noticed two distinct forms of defense of both the party...
Jeremy Corbyn’s ‘Existential Threat’
JNS.org - On the evening of Monday, July 23, the parliamentary group of the British Labour Party held what Sky News called an “emotionally charged...
France’s Reputation Is at Stake Again Over the Murder of Sarah Halimi
JNS.org - For the second time in 20 years, France basked in the accomplishment of winning the World Cup with a team whose diverse backgrounds...
The Irish Senate’s ‘Boycott Israel’ Debate
JNS.org - Reading the transcript of the debate that took place in the Irish Senate on July 11 before that body voted 25-20 to criminalize commercial relations with...
Denmark Confronts Islamism and Integration
JNS.org - Imam Mundhir Abdallah is a good example of the dilemmas that have confronted politicians in Denmark in their response to Islamist extremism among the country’s...
Polish-Jewish Relations Step Back From the Brink
JNS.org - Poland has taken the welcome step of removing the most objectionable part of its legislation governing the commemoration of the Nazi and Communist eras....
What Macedonia and Israel Have in Common
JNS.org - Barely noticed outside of the Balkans, one of the world’s most intractable diplomatic disputes was finally resolved this month. The parties are Greece...
Trump, Kim, and the ‘Good Citizen’
JNS.org - One of the many memorable scenes in The Lives of Others -- an exemplary German movie whose plot centers on the Stasi secret police...
