Posts Tagged: Ben Cohen
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...
Difficult Questions and Contested Answers on Antisemitism
JNS.org - In his magnum opus A Lethal Obsession, the late Robert Wistrich, one of Israel’s finest scholars of Jew-hatred, elegantly summarized the character of antisemitism at...
Antisemitism Experts: Popularity in Germany of New Annotated Version of Hitler’s ‘Mein Kampf’ Doesn’t Need to Be Cause for Alarm
The fact that a new annotated version of Nazi leader Adolf Hitler’s autobiography Mein Kampf has become a best-seller in Germany does not need to...
Fighting the Shameful Embrace of Hezbollah
JNS.org - In July 2006, Israel fought a bitter defensive war against the Lebanese Islamist organization Hezbollah. The hostilities, which saw thousands of rockets fired at...
Wielding the Holocaust Stick
JNS.org - In late November, radical protesters in London attacked a Jewish communal building. As they wrestled with police at the gates, they screamed abuse about...
Meet the Austrian President Fawning Over Iran
JNS.org -- You probably haven't heard of Karlheinz Kopf. He’s one of three Austrian politicians currently sharing that country's presidency following the July departure of the...
Antisemitism Experts Disagree on Legitimacy of Holocaust-Aleppo Comparison During Second Presidential Debate
The Holocaust has frequently and rightly been invoked when subsequent genocides and mass killings are ignored, an antisemitism expert told The Algemeiner on Monday, the morning...
The Betrayal of Syria’s Kurds
JNS.org - From Moscow to Washington, we are told that the principle enemy in the Middle East is the Islamic State (IS) terrorist organization. At the same...
Jill Stein’s Big Lies
JNS.org - The far-left US Green Party marked a significant milestone in the current campaign cycle, when CNN broadcast a town hall debate with its presidential candidate, Jill Stein,...
Higher Stakes in Lebanon, 10 Years After Israel’s War Against Hezbollah
JNS.org - A decade after fighting the Second Lebanon War against the Islamist terror militia Hezbollah, Israel is once again facing a build-up on its northern...
Why Robert Wistrich Is Required Reading on Past, Present and Future Antisemitism
JNS.org - A year ago, the world of Jewish academia suffered an irreplaceable loss with the passing of Prof. Robert Wistrich, the head of the Vidal...
Human Rights Activists Celebrate Multi-Country Adoption of New Definition of Antisemitism
Human rights activists told The Algemeiner on Wednesday why they consider last week's adoption by 31 countries of a new working definition of antisemitism to be a major...
When Visiting Hiroshima, Obama Should Not Give Japan a Free Pass on Wartime Record
JNS.org - Despite leaving the world an unsafer place than when he found it, President Barack Obama isn’t shying away from busting those foreign policy taboos....
Season Three of ‘Trump’: Be Very Nervous About Foreign Policy
JNS.org - The last time I wrote about Donald Trump in this column was back in December 2015, when the Republican presidential primary race was in...
