Ben Cohen / JNS.org
ARTICLES BY: Ben Cohen / JNS.org
UNRWA Meets the Spanish Inquisition
JNS.org - The collaboration between UNRWA, the U.N. agency solely dedicated to Palestinian refugees and their descendants, and the Hamas rulers of Gaza continues unabated. Two...
What Biden Didn’t Say About Antisemitism
JNS.org - U.S. President Joe Biden’s speech on May 7 at the U.S. Capitol, during which he eloquently revisited Nazi Germany’s journey from racial laws...
Nicaragua’s Charade at the ICJ
JNS.org - The solemnly named International Court of Justice (ICJ) in The Hague has become an arena for the world’s despots and authoritarians to strut...
A Bad Taste in the Mouth
JNS.org - For several years now, my media consumption habits have been guided in part by what I call my “escape routes.” As someone who spends...
Too Little, Too Late? Antisemitism and Germany’s New Naturalization Test
JNS.org - What do you call a Jewish house of prayer? When was the State of Israel founded? Which cities in our country have the...
War Is Hell. Everywhere.
JNS.org - “War,” the Union Army Gen. William Tecumseh Sherman is famously said to have told a group of army cadets some years after the...
The Bitter Truth About Anti-Zionism
JNS.org - Collisions are often unintentional. Bumping into someone as you walk down a busy thoroughfare with one eye on your cell phone or scraping...
October 7: Rape As an Instrument of Genocide
JNS.org - As the world marked International Women’s Day on March 8, the various social-media platforms lit up with posts from pro-Israel celebrities and influencers...
An Ideology of Violence
JNS.org - When all is said and done, antisemitism is fundamentally an ideology of violence. Behind every missive and every barb—whether delivered online, at pro-Hamas...
Politicians Who Abuse the Holocaust Should Be Sanctioned
JNS.org - The Israeli government was absolutely right in its decision last week to announce that Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva—known to the...
The Myth of British Exceptionalism
JNS.org - That old image of the Jewish family with a packed suitcase at the ready in case they are compelled to suddenly leave their...
When Fighting Antisemitism, You Can’t Pick and Choose
JNS.org - It was one of those incidents that you never expect will happen to you, but when it does, it changes your life irrevocably. On...
War, Antisemitism and Free Speech: A Critical Dilemma
JNS.org - Should governments and public institutions take punitive measures against groups or individuals who promote antisemitism through such measures as cutting funding, criminalizing aspects...
Time to Huddle: Antisemitism on the Field
JNS.org - As unsettling and painful as the current wave of global antisemitism that followed the Oct. 7 Hamas pogrom in Israel is, it’s still...
