Overall, I’ve been heartened during the last week by the response of key NATO leaders to the blood-drenched Hamas assault on Israel on Oct. 7. From President Joe Biden …
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By Ben Cohen
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10/25/23
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When I was a child, my racing, impatient young mind could never focus during weekly visits to synagogue in London, my birthplace, as my father and the congregants who sat in our section might well …
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By Ben Cohen
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10/18/23
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“When oh, we all start arguing the history of the Jews,” sing LCD Soundsystem in “Call the Police,” their hit single from 2017, “You got nothing left to lose/And it …
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By Ben Cohen
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10/11/23
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In the Middle East, antisemitism emanates from the corridors of power, walking hand in hand with corruption, political repression, torture, racism and other reprehensible features of authoritarian …
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By Ben Cohen
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9/27/23
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In the wake of the devastating floods earlier last week in Libya, the Palestinian Civil Defense Service, which operates under the auspices of the Palestinian Authority, announced that it was sending …
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By Ben Cohen
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9/20/23
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For the best part of a week, Germany has been gripped by an antisemitism scandal centered on Hubert Aiwanger, deputy premier of the southern state of Bavaria. Now 52, Aiwanger has been accused of …
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By Ben Cohen
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9/6/23
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It’s hardly a revelation that Hezbollah, the Iranian-backed Shi’a terrorist group in Lebanon, is once again engaging in provocations along Israel’s northern border.
The timing …
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By Ben Cohen
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8/23/23
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A sentence, taken from a lengthy article published by the Korean Central News Agency, perfectly encapsulates the Py-ongyang regime’s raison d’état:
“We should …
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By Ben Cohen
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8/2/23
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A brazen claim was posted to a Telegram channel linked with the Iranian regime’s Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) as an amazed world watched a mutiny unfold in Russia that was …
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By Ben Cohen
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7/19/23
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The great German writer Heinrich Heine famously observed in his 1821 stage play “Almansor,” set in Spain during the Inquisition, that “wherever books are burned, they will …
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By Ben Cohen
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7/12/23
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