On a recent evening, I was traveling on the subway in a car that was empty except for me, a woman and her child, and two men. As I sat down, I realized that one of the men — a young guy …
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By Ben Cohen
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2/23/22
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A great scholar of anti-Semitism once told me that there was one country that frustrated him when it came to its understanding of the extent and depth of Jew-hatred: Israel.
While this …
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By Ben Cohen
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2/16/22
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A perennial discussion in the cauldron that is Middle Eastern politics concerns the degree to which a sovereign Palestinian state, should one ever be created, would be democratic.
The …
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By Ben Cohen
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2/4/22
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During Barack Obama’s presidency, when diplomatic tensions between Israel and the United States sank to rarely seen lows, the term “Israel-Firster” was concocted by the Jewish …
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By Ben Cohen
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2/10/22
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The embrace between the authoritarian left in Latin America and the Islamist regime in Iran is as tight as ever, as evidenced at the inauguration in Managua last week of Nicaraguan President …
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By Ben Cohen
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1/19/22
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These five words encapsulate the methods and approach of the Palestinian solidarity movement in Western countries: “Sanction.” “Boycott.” “Cancel.” …
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By Ben Cohen
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11/17/21
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Under different circumstances, it might have been the stuff of a modern fairy tale with two principal characters. The story of a Jewish Holocaust survivor living in a Paris housing project — a …
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By Ben Cohen
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11/10/21
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There were more than 2,000 reported anti-Semitic incidents in Germany in 2020 and just under 2,000 the previous year. That’s around five or six incidents, some of them involving violence or …
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By Ben Cohen
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10/27/21
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Could a politician who positively identifies as Jewish and expresses pro-Israel sympathies ever be elected as head of state in a European country?
The question is still a hypothetical one. In …
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By Ben Cohen
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10/20/21
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Paul is an Australian Jewish man in his late 40s who lives in the city of Brisbane, in the state of Queensland. Paul (the name he has been given by local media to protect his identity) was …
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By Ben Cohen
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9/9/21
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