Ben Cohen / JNS.org
ARTICLES BY: Ben Cohen / JNS.org
Difficult Questions and Contested Answers on Antisemitism
JNS.org - In his magnum opus A Lethal Obsession, the late Robert Wistrich, one of Israel’s finest scholars of Jew-hatred, elegantly summarized the character of antisemitism at...
Trump-Netanyahu Meeting Shatters ‘Palestine First’ Worldview
JNS.org - The morning after Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's first official meeting with President Donald Trump, multiple headlines proclaimed that the two-state solution -- whereby an independent,...
What Maimonides Teaches Us About Trump
JNS.org - If anyone can be said to have discovered the formula for a world without evil, that accolade belongs to the great medieval Jewish philosopher...
At Last, A Real Threat
JNS.org - I will admit that this sounds perverse, but Iran's recent ballistic missile test was good news in one important sense. Let me explain. Just more...
Canada’s New Immigration Minister and the Difference Between Islam and Islamists
JNS.org - He came to Canada as a 16-year-old refugee from Somalia. He’s highly regarded across the Canadian political spectrum. He was just appointed to be...
Confronting the Politicization of the Holocaust
JNS.org - About a month ago, I wrote in this column about a group of British animal rights activists who employed Nazi imagery in a vicious...
Why the Palestinian Issue Won’t Disappear
JNS.org - It's been clear for a long time that there is little difference between the character of terrorist attacks in Israel and those in the...
The Tide Slowly Turns Against Iranian Terror
JNS.org - A glimmer of hope in the fight against Iranian-backed terrorism shone forth from Argentina during the final days of 2016. An Argentinian federal appeals...
Fighting the Shameful Embrace of Hezbollah
JNS.org - In July 2006, Israel fought a bitter defensive war against the Lebanese Islamist organization Hezbollah. The hostilities, which saw thousands of rockets fired at...
Wielding the Holocaust Stick
JNS.org - In late November, radical protesters in London attacked a Jewish communal building. As they wrestled with police at the gates, they screamed abuse about...
You Can’t Make Peace With Bad Leaders
JNS.org - On one of my first assignments abroad as a rookie journalist in the early 1990s, I found myself in the Serbian capital, Belgrade, just...
The World Cannot Ignore Assad’s Crimes
JNS.org - It was one of the most dramatic moments so far in the five-year civil war that has torn Syria apart. In August 2014, a man...
A Message to Trump: Turkey’s Erdoğan Can’t Be Trusted
JNS.org - Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan was at his repellent best when he was interviewed by Israeli television journalist Ilana Dayan this week. Although the interview...
The Illiberal World of Stephen Bannon
JNS.org - In considering the furore around President-elect Donald Trump's decision to appoint Stephen Bannon, the CEO of the hard-right news website Breitbart, as his chief strategist,...
