Posts Tagged: Ben Cohen Israel
Abbas and Netanyahu UN Speeches Signal the 30-Year Peace Process Is Dead
JNS.org - There was one corner of New York City last Thursday where the Senate Judicial Committee hearings into the accusations against Supreme Court nominee Brett...
Study Abroad in Turkey, Anyone?
JNS.org - Earlier this month, the Turkish NBA star Enes Kanter published a moving article in Time magazine about how President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s mushrooming...
How to Misread Antisemitism
JNS.org - In all the furor around the antisemitism plaguing the British Labour Party, I’ve noticed two distinct forms of defense of both the party...
Polish-Jewish Relations Step Back From the Brink
JNS.org - Poland has taken the welcome step of removing the most objectionable part of its legislation governing the commemoration of the Nazi and Communist eras....
What Macedonia and Israel Have in Common
JNS.org - Barely noticed outside of the Balkans, one of the world’s most intractable diplomatic disputes was finally resolved this month. The parties are Greece...
‘Nakba,’ ‘Naksa’ … Nowhere
JNS.org - When it comes to the Palestinian “original sin” theory of Israel’s creation, there are two key milestones: the flight of approximately 750,000 Arab refugees...
Behind Erdogan’s Boycott Threat Against Israel
JNS.org - Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan is in the midst of one of his periodic bouts of Israel-hatred, lashing out at the Jewish state and...
‘Trump’s War’ on Iran Isn’t Coming
JNS.org - A few hours after US President Donald Trump announced on May 8 that the United States had exited the Iran nuclear deal, the doyenne of...
Time to Abandon the ‘Original Sin’ Theory
JNS.org - As welcome as the remarkably diverse condemnations of Mahmoud Abbas’ latest antisemitic speech have been over the last few days -- with UNESCO’s new director-general, The New York...
Israel and Russia: A Complicated History
JNS.org - Amid all the diplomatic maneuverings in the months that led up to the creation of the State of Israel 70 years ago, none are...
On Zionism, Progressives Take a Page Out of the Socialist Playbook
JNS.org - There is a tragic account of the last moments of Grigori Zinoviev, the veteran Russian Bolshevik leader of Jewish descent who was executed by...
French Jews Spend Another Passover Under Antisemitism’s Shadow
JNS.org - This year, as last, the Jewish community in France will spend Passover in the shadow of the brutal murder of a vulnerable, elderly Jewish...
In Israel and Elsewhere, the Secrets of Happiness (or Unhappiness) Are Revealed
JNS.org - What makes us happy -- or unhappy? The 2018 edition of the World Happiness Report, published annually by a group of United Nations-linked development experts, asserts that a...
The House of Windsor’s Israel Problem
JNS.org - Queen Elizabeth II is marking her 66th year of reign in 2018, which by any standards is an extraordinarily long time for a single...
