Posts Tagged: Ben Cohen Israel
Israel Can’t Deny the Reality That BDS Is in Decline
JNS.org - Recently, I’ve been nursing some concerns about the way the Israeli government is handling its response to the BDS campaign against the Jewish state,...
Islam’s Jewish Dilemma Revisited
JNS.org - In his important book Anti-Judaism: The Western Tradition, the scholar David Nirenberg makes the persuasive case that Islam has faced similar theological challenges to...
Iran Has a Foreign Policy Doctrine
JNS.org - In a bid to show the world what responsible, considered citizens they are, Iran’s leaders last week hosted their annual, gloriously named “Tehran...
Iran’s War, and America’s Shame, in Kurdistan
JNS.org - Prior to the referendum in Iraqi Kurdistan on September 25, the leaders of Iran, Turkey and Iraq all foretold of the coming of a...
Year Zero: The Palestinians and the Balfour Declaration
JNS.org - For the Palestinians, the year zero is not 1948, when the State of Israel came into being, but 1917, when Great Britain issued, in...
Harvey Weinstein’s Disgrace Produces Another Nasty Caricature
JNS.org - Walking through central London last week, and with a spare half hour on my hands, I decided to pay a quick visit to the National...
Talking to Qatar Should Not Mean Blessing Qatar
JNS.org - Should American Jewish leaders speak to the rulers of a petrostate that finances Hamas terrorists to blow up their fellow Jews in Israel? That, in...
Kushner’s Initiative Doesn’t Change Palestinian Reality
JNS.org - After several visits to Israeli leaders in Jerusalem and Palestinian leaders in Ramallah, White House senior adviser Jared Kushner’s attempt to restart the peace...
A BDS Lesson from Tunisia
JNS.org - To get a sense of what really lies beneath the campaign to boycott Israel -- which is about much more than just boycotting Israel -- it can be...
The Joy of Israel and India, Together at Last
JNS.org - Israel’s defenders in America should take great pleasure from the success of Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s historic visit to the Jewish state last...
A Jewish Version of Intersectionality
JNS.org - Whatever else is said these days about antisemitism, it remains the case that being accused of it is a surefire way of gaining name...
Welcome to the Shia Corridor
JNS.org - If you haven’t encountered the term “Shia corridor” yet, chances are that you will in the coming weeks, particularly if the ongoing confrontation between...
From Greeley, Colorado to Manchester, England
JNS.org - For those -- like me -- who’d never really given any thought to singer Ariana Grande before the terrorist atrocity at her concert in Manchester, it took a...
From the Passover Seder to the Real World
JNS.org - At my family’s Passover seder this year, we read -- as we always do -- from the traditional Sephardic haggadah, in keeping with the customs of the Jewish...
