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ARTICLES BY: Ben Cohen / JNS.org
Schabas Resignation Means it’s High Time to Address UN Bias on Israel
JNS.org - A few months ago, I asked William Schabas, the Canadian academic who this week resigned as head of the United Nations Human...
Getting Anti-Semitism Wrong at the United Nations
JNS.org - You have to hand it to the United Nations, I guess. It's hard to think of another body that would organize a...
Europe’s Jews Tied to a Declining Political Class
JNS.org - As regular readers of my column will know, I am not an admirer of the analogy between the situation that Jews faced...
Charlie Hebdo and the Temptation of Self-Censorship
JNS.org - As predictably as birds flying south for the winter, this week's abominable terrorist attack on the headquarters of the French satirical magazine, Charlie...
Obama’s ‘Islamic Republic’ Doctrine: Trust in Iran Creates a Dangerous Mess
JNS.org - When Barack Obama began his first term as president almost six years ago, foreign policy chatter was prone to including terms like...
Time to Rethink Holocaust Remembrance Day?
JNS.org - Do we need Holocaust Remembrance Day? Since some of you may be incredulous that I even asked that question, let me first explain...
Ominous Clouds Over French Jewry
JNS.org - It's an article that's more than 10 years old now, but I still maintain that anyone who wants to get an insight...
Don’t Let Palestinian Extremists Hijack Ferguson, Staten Island Protests
JNS.org - A winter of discontent is brewing in America. Over the last fortnight, large parts of the country have seethed with anger, first at...
Tragedy of Mizrahi Jewish Refugees Emerges From the Shadows
JNS.org - To properly understand how the Holocaust has been seared onto Israel's collective consciousness, one should visit the country on the 27th of...
Overlooked Palestinian Terror Group Returns With a Vengeance
JNS.org - The older I get, the more my childhood memories fade, but I still vividly remember the morning of Sunday, July 4, 1976. I...
Deal or No Deal? Iran Says Shut Up and Make One
JNS.org - As everyone seems to be saying, there is less than a fortnight to go before we hit the Nov. 24 deadline for...
Can the Political Left Tackle Anti-Semitism?
JNS.org - While I've never been a big fan of celebrity interventions in politics, I will concede that, on occasion, a big-screen actor or...
The ‘Chickenshitgate’ Fallout for America, Israel, and the Middle East
JNS.org - Naftali Bennett, Israel's economy minister, got it 100 percent right in a Facebook posting just a few hours after the latest blow...
The Return of Palestinian Unilateralism
It sometimes seems as if the see-saw debate about the true intentions of Mahmoud Abbas and his Palestinian Authority has been with us for an...
