The Foundation for Defense of Democracies think tank this week presented its Alberto Nisman Award for Courage to Judge Royce Lamberth. A senior district judge for the District of Columbia, Lamberth …
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By Ben Cohen
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4/21/16
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Here’s the latest episode of outreach to Iran from the lips of Secretary of State John Kerry. After condemning, during a press conference in Bahrain, the “destabilizing ac-tions” of …
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By Ben Cohen
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4/13/16
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Over the years, I’ve spoken at or attended a number of academic conferences on the subject of rising anti-Semitism. Parleys like these are essential for boosting our understanding of why, seven …
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By Ben Cohen
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4/6/16
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The former Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic finally received a modicum of justice last week, when a United Nations court in The Hague sentenced him to 40 years in prison for his monstrous war …
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By Ben Cohen
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3/31/16
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You don’t hear that much these days about Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, the former Iranian president whose penchant for denying the Holocaust at every opportunity became legendary.
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By Ben Cohen
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3/9/16
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In his preface to a recent publication from Fathom, a British magazine covering the Middle East, British lawyer and anti-Semitism expert Anthony Julius—always the author of a memorable …
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By Ben Cohen
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3/2/16
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Samantha Power, the United States ambassador to the United Nations, this week sounded an unusually strong—and therefore welcome—warning about the continuing bias against Israel in the …
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By Ben Cohen
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2/22/16
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It would be churlish to deny the remarkable achievement of Senator Bernie Sanders in decisively winning the New Hampshire primary.
For months, Sanders was depicted as an eccentric whose …
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By Ben Cohen
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2/17/16
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BDS, the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement targeting Israel, may clinically die in 2016.
State legislatures are passing bills that outlaw state authorities from investing public funds in, …
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By Ben Cohen
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2/10/16
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“When in Rome, do as the Iranians do.”
That was the core message from Iranian President Hassan Rouhani’s visit to Europe last week, in a bid to boost trade relations now that the …
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By Ben Cohen
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2/3/16
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