Posts Tagged: Ben Cohen
From Holocaust to ‘Polocaust’: A Change in Parlance Doesn’t Change the Facts
JNS.org - I interviewed Mateusz Morawiecki, the current prime minister of Poland, during his September visit to New York. The public-relations maven who arranged the meeting pitched Morawiecki -- then...
No Hate of Halimi? The French Won’t See Antisemitism for What It Is
JNS.org - Flush from his victory over far-right candidate Marine Le Pen in the French elections last July, President Emmanuel Macron decided to address head-on the...
Who Owns the Holocaust?
JNS.org - Who owns the Holocaust? That, ultimately, is the key question posed by the impending legislation in Poland that will criminalize any discussion, or investigation,...
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...
Why an Antisemitism Commissioner for Germany Is a Good Idea
JNS.org - There’s an intense debate going on in Germany right now about whether to create a post for a federal commissioner to deal with the...
In Decades-Long AMIA Jewish Center Affair, the Truth Will Come Out
JNS.org - Like so many pins in a bowling alley, the treacherous former Argentine leaders who signed a secret pact exonerating Iran of its responsibility for...
France’s Socialist Party Shows the Right Way to Respond to Antisemitism
JNS.org - It has been a long time since I’ve heard anyone say anything positive about the French Socialist Party (PS), once the giant of that...
Hopes Betrayed: The Russian Revolution and the Jews
JNS.org - Another week, another centennial. Following the Balfour Declaration’s milestone, it’s now time to look back on the 1917 Bolshevik Revolution in Russia, where a communist...
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...
Iranian Nuclear Revelations From Argentina
JNS.org - Israeli Ambassador to the United Nations Danny Danon made a good point at a Security Council meeting on the Middle East this week when...
Leave the Symbols of Nazi Persecution Alone, Billy Joel
JNS.org - Billy Joel’s decision to sport a yellow star on the front and back of his jacket during a concert this week was a nod...
Trump’s Foreign Policy: The Light and the Darkness
JNS.org - As much as President Donald Trump enjoys taking a metaphorical sledgehammer to even the merest of slights against him, there is no reason to...
The Drumbeat Against Jewish Ritual in Europe Sounds Once More
JNS.org - This past week, Jewish ritual observance came under attack in both Belgium and Norway. While there is nothing suggesting that the respective moves against...
