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ARTICLES BY: Ben Cohen / JNS.org
Clinton and Trump Need to Banish Antisemitism From Election Campaign
JNS.org - Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton is hardly in a happy place at the moment. Now that she’s avoided federal prosecution for compromising national security...
After Brexit, Europe’s Far Left in Turmoil
JNS.org - I’ve lost count of the number of strident adjectives — “historic,” “earth-shaking,” “tectonic” and the like — inserted into the slew of commentary that...
Netanyahu’s Russian Realism
JNS.org - These are the days that Vladimir Putin has been aching for since the end of the Cold War. On Dec. 5, 1989, three weeks after...
Orlando Atrocity Highlights America’s Divisions
JNS.org - In the days since the massacre of 49 people and the wounding of hundreds more by an Islamist gunman at Pulse, a gay nightclub...
Why Robert Wistrich Is Required Reading on Past, Present and Future Antisemitism
JNS.org - A year ago, the world of Jewish academia suffered an irreplaceable loss with the passing of Prof. Robert Wistrich, the head of the Vidal...
The Difficult and Important Task of Commemorating Iraqi Jewry’s Farhud
JNS.org - Every Iraqi Jew has a tale to tell about the Farhud, the two-day pogrom that befell the Jews of Baghdad 75 years ago in...
Iran’s Holocaust Cartoon Contest Is No Caricature of Regime’s Identity
JNS.org - A haredi Jew looks into a mirror and sees the face of Adolf Hitler gazing back at him. The walls and guard towers of...
A Message to Donald Trump’s Jewish Supporters: Are You Hypocrites or Not?
JNS.org - “He’s not Hitler. He wants to help America.” Melania Trump’s comment about her husband, GOP presidential candidate Donald Trump, will go down as one of...
When Visiting Hiroshima, Obama Should Not Give Japan a Free Pass on Wartime Record
JNS.org - Despite leaving the world an unsafer place than when he found it, President Barack Obama isn’t shying away from busting those foreign policy taboos....
Season Three of ‘Trump’: Be Very Nervous About Foreign Policy
JNS.org - The last time I wrote about Donald Trump in this column was back in December 2015, when the Republican presidential primary race was in...
Antisemitism, George Orwell and the Labour Party
JNS.org - “It is generally admitted that antisemitism is on the increase, that it has been greatly exacerbated by the war, and that humane and enlightened...
Lies, Damn Lies and Faculty Lies
JNS.org - To understand the significance of the newly announced legal challenge against the American Studies Association’s academic boycott of Israel, we need to go back around 18...
Justice for Alberto Nisman and AMIA Jewish Center Victims Inches Closer
JNS.org - The Foundation for Defense of Democracies think tank this week presented its Alberto Nisman Award for Courage to Judge Royce Lamberth. A senior district...
John Kerry’s Iranian ‘Success’
JNS.org - Here’s the latest episode of outreach to Iran from the lips of US Secretary of State John Kerry. After condemning, during a press conference...
