Ben Cohen / JNS.org
ARTICLES BY: Ben Cohen / JNS.org
Why a Soccer Hooligan Is Smiling
JNS.org - Jibril Rajoub is many things: a convicted terrorist, a former West Bank security chief, a former confidante of the late Yasser Arafat, and now...
‘Nakba,’ ‘Naksa’ … Nowhere
JNS.org - When it comes to the Palestinian “original sin” theory of Israel’s creation, there are two key milestones: the flight of approximately 750,000 Arab refugees...
Behind Erdogan’s Boycott Threat Against Israel
JNS.org - Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan is in the midst of one of his periodic bouts of Israel-hatred, lashing out at the Jewish state and...
Another Leading Iranian Export? Religious Persecution
JNS.org - In a welcome statement issued this week, the US State Department drew attention to the continuing persecution of the small Baha’i religious minority in...
‘Trump’s War’ on Iran Isn’t Coming
JNS.org - A few hours after US President Donald Trump announced on May 8 that the United States had exited the Iran nuclear deal, the doyenne of...
Time to Abandon the ‘Original Sin’ Theory
JNS.org - As welcome as the remarkably diverse condemnations of Mahmoud Abbas’ latest antisemitic speech have been over the last few days -- with UNESCO’s new director-general, The New York...
‘Anti-Zionist and Jew:’ Behind Jeremy Corbyn’s Apology
JNS.org - “I refuse to characterize as opinion,” wrote Jean-Paul Sartre in Anti-Semite and Jew, “a doctrine that is aimed directly at particular persons and that seeks...
Israel and Russia: A Complicated History
JNS.org - Amid all the diplomatic maneuverings in the months that led up to the creation of the State of Israel 70 years ago, none are...
The Warsaw Ghetto: The Epitome of Rightful Resistance
JNS.org - It’s hard to say for sure whether the following fable was really told in the Warsaw Ghetto, but it’s grimly funny enough to warrant...
On Zionism, Progressives Take a Page Out of the Socialist Playbook
JNS.org - There is a tragic account of the last moments of Grigori Zinoviev, the veteran Russian Bolshevik leader of Jewish descent who was executed by...
French Jews Spend Another Passover Under Antisemitism’s Shadow
JNS.org - This year, as last, the Jewish community in France will spend Passover in the shadow of the brutal murder of a vulnerable, elderly Jewish...
Is Putin an Antisemite? It Really Doesn’t Matter
JNS.org - Among Sephardic Jews of my grandmother’s generation, there was a popular, if unproven, belief that Gen. Francisco Franco -- the military dictator who ruled Spain from...
In Israel and Elsewhere, the Secrets of Happiness (or Unhappiness) Are Revealed
JNS.org - What makes us happy -- or unhappy? The 2018 edition of the World Happiness Report, published annually by a group of United Nations-linked development experts, asserts that a...
‘Céline’ Redux? France’s Publishing Problem
JNS.org - Mention the name “Celine” to most people in the United States -- or Europe, for that matter -- and they will think you’re talking about the long-serving Canadian...
