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ARTICLES BY: Ben Cohen / JNS.org
Their Protests, Not Ours: Palestinian Solidarity Movement’s Reaction to Israel’s Political Upheaval
JNS.org - Over the last fortnight, the political upheaval in Israel has generated unprecedented global interest in the Jewish state’s internal governance. The world has...
‘The System has Failed:’ Antisemitism Flourishes in France
JNS.org - Five years ago, an 85-year-old survivor of the Holocaust, Mireille Knoll, was brutally murdered in her apartment in Paris by two intruders, one...
The EU Must Designate All of Hezbollah
JNS.org - More than 10 years after five Israeli tourists lost their lives in a suicide bombing in a Bulgarian resort, the Balkan nation’s supreme...
Elly Schlein’s Etruscan Nose
JNS.org - “Then the Lord God said to Moses/All the Jews shall have long noses.” This spiteful playground barb has been leveled at Jews in one...
‘Gobblefunk:’ Author Roald Dahl’s Antisemitic Legacy
JNS.org - In common with many people who spent their childhood in the 1970s, I loved Roald Dahl’s novels for children, especially “Charlie and the...
Free Speech as Hate Speech: The James Cavallaro Scandal
JNS.org - Another vocal anti-Zionist claimed free-speech martyrdom last week in the latest example of an individual harboring visceral hatred of Israel being rewarded with...
We Need a Better Definition of Antisemitism
JNS.org - In the world of Jewish advocacy, the “working definition” of antisemitism endorsed by the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA) has almost acquired the...
Getting Away With It: Germany’s Documenta Art Festival
JNS.org - Of the many stories involving antisemitism that dominated the headlines last year, probably the most disturbing involved the serial controversies over antisemitic displays...
How Does Israel Interpret the Russian-Iranian Alliance?
JNS.org - It is perhaps a measure of Israel’s elevated stature in the world that its newly elected right-wing government is under scrutiny not just...
2022: The Year FUD Took Off
JNS.org - There were many occasions during 2022 when events in the news almost tricked us into thinking that we were living in an earlier...
The Iran Nuclear Deal Is Dead. Or Is It?
JNS.org - Like the parrot in that wonderful Monty Python sketch, American and European diplomats have been trying to persuade themselves that the 2015 nuclear...
BDS Versus Modern Art
JNS.org – “BDS appears here as contemporary art’s foil. BDS undermines contemporaneity’s claims of autonomy and emancipatory effects, fixes its meanings in ways that might...
Beware of Iran’s Reformist Clerics
JNS.org – The first confirmed execution by the Iranian regime of a participant in the historic protest wave currently engulfing the country was reported widely...
China’s Cry for Freedom
JNS.org – There is no getting around the fact that we live in dangerous times, defined by the worst military conflict in Europe since the...
