Ben Cohen / JNS.org
ARTICLES BY: Ben Cohen / JNS.org
The House of Windsor’s Israel Problem
JNS.org - Queen Elizabeth II is marking her 66th year of reign in 2018, which by any standards is an extraordinarily long time for a single...
From Holocaust to ‘Polocaust’: A Change in Parlance Doesn’t Change the Facts
JNS.org - I interviewed Mateusz Morawiecki, the current prime minister of Poland, during his September visit to New York. The public-relations maven who arranged the meeting pitched Morawiecki -- then...
No Hate of Halimi? The French Won’t See Antisemitism for What It Is
JNS.org - Flush from his victory over far-right candidate Marine Le Pen in the French elections last July, President Emmanuel Macron decided to address head-on the...
Who Owns the Holocaust?
JNS.org - Who owns the Holocaust? That, ultimately, is the key question posed by the impending legislation in Poland that will criminalize any discussion, or investigation,...
Israel Can’t Deny the Reality That BDS Is in Decline
JNS.org - Recently, I’ve been nursing some concerns about the way the Israeli government is handling its response to the BDS campaign against the Jewish state,...
Islam’s Jewish Dilemma Revisited
JNS.org - In his important book Anti-Judaism: The Western Tradition, the scholar David Nirenberg makes the persuasive case that Islam has faced similar theological challenges to...
Iran Has a Foreign Policy Doctrine
JNS.org - In a bid to show the world what responsible, considered citizens they are, Iran’s leaders last week hosted their annual, gloriously named “Tehran...
Win or Lose, Iranians Want Regime Change
JNS.org - For the first time in nearly a decade, one dares to believe that the Islamist clerics who have ruled Iran since 1979 will not...
Why an Antisemitism Commissioner for Germany Is a Good Idea
JNS.org - There’s an intense debate going on in Germany right now about whether to create a post for a federal commissioner to deal with the...
Don’t Forget Qatar and Turkey
JNS.org - US National Security Advisor Gen. H.R. McMaster underlined an important point last week that deserves a wider audience. Speaking at a conference in Washington, DC, McMaster...
In Decades-Long AMIA Jewish Center Affair, the Truth Will Come Out
JNS.org - Like so many pins in a bowling alley, the treacherous former Argentine leaders who signed a secret pact exonerating Iran of its responsibility for...
France’s Socialist Party Shows the Right Way to Respond to Antisemitism
JNS.org - It has been a long time since I’ve heard anyone say anything positive about the French Socialist Party (PS), once the giant of that...
The Ultimate Victory of an African Tyrant
JNS.org - Which single individual made the following statements? “Gay people are worse than dogs and pigs. I keep pigs and the male pig knows the female...
Hopes Betrayed: The Russian Revolution and the Jews
JNS.org - Another week, another centennial. Following the Balfour Declaration’s milestone, it’s now time to look back on the 1917 Bolshevik Revolution in Russia, where a communist...
